Crazy New Cell Phone: Big and Stationary
The latest thing in cell phones is a great big, AC-powered desktop model that’s about as portable as the average printer… MaxxPhone sports all the pushbuttons, bells and whistles you’d expect from a fancy office phone. This includes a full keyboard so you don’t have to wear out your thumbs sending text messages, and a digital display large enough for use by non-teenagers with tired eyesight.

Discovery Cuts Cost Of Next Generation Optical Fibers
The procedure cuts the production time of hollow-core optical fibres from around a week to a single day, reducing the overall cost of fabrication. Initial tests show that the fibre is also superior in virtually every respect to previous versions of the technology, making it an important step in the development of new technologies that use light instead of electrical circuits to carry information.

Betting on a Bright Future for Rear-Projection TVs
Texas Instruments hopes that new chips can lead to more realistic video game play and 3-D DVDs.

Pentagon Explores ‘Human Fear’ Chemicals; Scare-Sensors, ‘Contagious’ Stress in the Works? (Danger Room, Wired)
American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear.

New Contact Lenses Go Bionic
For the first time, engineers have installed an electronic circuit and lights on a regular contact lens. The prototype they created does not actually light up or display information. But it proves that it is possible to build an electronic lens that is safe to wear and doesn’t obstruct vision.

New Findings Confirm Darwin’s Theory: Evolution Not Random
[T]he findings of an international team of biologists demonstrate that evolution is not a random process, but rather occurs through the natural selection of successful traits… [T]he main mechanism for the development favoring a natural selection of successful traits, the researchers said.

Embryonic Stem Cells Create Healthy Muscle in Mice
Scientific feat could lead to new treatment for muscular dystrophy, experts say.

Six more genes linked with autoimmune disease lupus
PARIS (AFP) – Investigators reported on Sunday they had identified six more gene regions associated with the severest form of lupus, a complex autoimmune disease that mainly strikes women.

Caffeine doubles miscarriage risk, study finds
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Pregnant women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day have twice the risk of having a miscarriage as those who avoid caffeine, U.S. researchers said on Monday. 

Newly Discovered Virus Linked To Deadly Skin Cancer
ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2008) — A new strategy to hunt for human viruses described in this week’s issue of the journal Science by the husband-and-wife team who found the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma has revealed a previously unknown virus strongly associated with another rare but deadly skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma… [I]f the findings are confirmed, they may lead to new cancer treatment and prevention options.

Smallest Air Pollution Particles Hurt Heart Most
Cause plaque build-up in arteries, negate effects of “good” cholesterol

Heart Association Renews Call for CPR Training
If more people knew the technique, more lives could be saved

Bone-Strengthening Drugs May Be Overprescribed
Doctors suggest drug makers exaggerate benefits for women who do not have osteoporosis

Scientists Test The Safety Of Experimental Drug For Vision Loss
[R]esearchers from Potentia Pharmaceuticals set out to develop an existing family of complement inhibitors called Compstatin for use in the human eye. In animal studies, complement inhibitors have been shown to prevent the inappropriate inflammatory response that accompanies both the wet and dry forms of macular degeneration.

New Technology Sharpens X-ray Vision
ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2008) — Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the EPFL in Switzerland have developed a novel method for producing dark-field x-ray images at wavelengths used in typical medical and industrial imaging equipment. Dark-field images provide more detail than ordinary x-ray radiographs and could be used to diagnose the onset of osteoporosis, breast cancer or Alzheimer’s disease, to identify explosives in hand luggage, or to pinpoint hairline cracks or corrosion in functional structures.

Virtual Biopsy Cuts Out Need For Diagnostic Surgery
ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2008) — A non-invasive diagnostic tool to detect surface cancers quickly and painlessly using technology currently employed by gyms to calculate body composition has been developed by a QUT PhD medical physics researcher.

When Stress Makes You Bitter: The Embitterment Disorder
ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2008) — The term ‘posttraumatic embitterment disorder’ (PTED) was recently introduced to describe a subtype of adjustment disorders, characterized by prolonged embitterment, severe additional psychopathological symptoms and great impairment in most areas of life in reaction to a severe negative but not life threatening life event.

India launches Israeli satellite in boost to space business
BANGALORE, India (AFP) – India successfully placed an Israeli spy satellite into orbit Monday in a boost to the South Asian nation’s efforts to win a share of the multi-billion-dollar space launch market.

There’s Got to Be an Invisible Sky
“Touch the Invisible Sky” contains 60 pages of color images of nebulae, stars, galaxies and a few of the telescopes used to capture the pictures. The authors added embossing of lines, bumps and other textures to each image, rendering colors, shapes, and other details in a third dimension. Descriptions that accompany each of the 28 images in the book are supplied in Braille and large-print text, making the information accessible to readers having differing visual abilities.

Could The Universe Be Tied Up With Cosmic String?
ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2008) — A team of physicists and astronomers from the University of Sussex and Imperial College London have uncovered hints that there may be cosmic strings – lines of pure mass-energy – stretching across the entire Universe.

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