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Dance Club Lets Patrons Produce Energy (926 diggs) WATT club, which just opened today, features a dance floor where the disco lights become more dynamic as people get their groove on. The floor even has a meter to show people how much energy they ’re producing at any given moment.

Scientists identify genetic link that may neutralize HIV (991 diggs) Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology and the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have identified a gene that may influence the production of antibodies that neutralize HIV. This new information will likely spur a new approach for making an HIV vaccine that elicits neutralizing antibodies.

Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain (2,281 diggs) A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin —author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—made manifest on a concrete wall in downtown Dayton.

Closest Look Yet at Milky Way's Black Hole (841 diggs) For a while now scientists have thought a dense, massive object lurking at the center of our galaxy is likely a giant black hole, but they haven't been able to prove it. New observations offering the closest view yet of the heart of the Milky Way present strong evidence for the black hole theory, and even hope of finally settling the question soon.

C-SECTIONS may weaken bonding with BABY (616 diggs) Mothers who undergo Caesarean sections may bond less well with their babies immediately after birth, concludes a study of 12 women published this week.

US Troops To Get 'World's Most Advanced Robot' (756 diggs) Meet Big Dog, a canine robot that could be used by American troops to transport supplies over rough terrain.

Shadow analysis could spot terrorists by their walk (398 diggs) Nearly seven years after Osama Bin Laden disappeared, US intelligence agencies are still chasing his shadow. And shadows are precisely what they should be looking for, says NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

'Comedy Brain Cell' That Responds To Humour Found (475 diggs) A 'comedy brain cell' has been discovered by scientists, which responds to humour.The unique experiment found that an individual brain cell fires during The Simpsons, and go into action once again as a person freely recalls the same episode.The same electrodes could be used to monitor single brain cells in the brain's hippocampus.

NASA Image - Astronauts: Past and Present (526 diggs) An all-star gathering of legendary American astronauts appeared in Cleveland Aug. 29, 2008 to celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, Jim Lovell, veteran of two Apollo missions, and Kathryn Sullivan, the first woman to walk in space joined 15 other astro

An Inconvenient Truth exaggerated sea level rise (1,663 diggs) [Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate] Al Gore's Oscar-winning environmental documentary exaggerated the likely effects of global warming on sea levels, a new study shows. ..if the glaciers continue to break up and melt like they are right now for 100 years, a two meter rise in sea level by 2100 would not be possible.

How U.S. Researchers Are Making the Switch to LHC (452 diggs) To unlock new secrets of the universe, Stephanie Majewski has to brush up on her French. The 27-year-old particle physicist is part of an international collaboration working on ATLAS, one of two experiments the size of small apartment buildings that will soon come online near Geneva, Switzerland.

How to change channel by simply waving your hand (448 diggs) Scientists have invented technology that allows people to interact with their TV with a wave of a hand.

Atomic Boffins Spot Fake Wines (337 diggs) A rare wine merchant has joined forces with nuclear scientists to develop a 21st-century tool for unmasking counterfeit vintage wines.The technique developed by French scientists for a British wine expert consists of zapping bottles with beams of charged ions generated by a particle accelerator.

Spooky! (1,161 diggs) Storms clouds photographed from Point Clark, Ontario, Canada in August 2001.

Scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider (1,728 diggs) Scientists working on the world's biggest machine are being besieged by phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up.

50 Billion Suns! What is the Size The Biggest Single Object? (937 diggs) Scientists have determined the mass of the largest things that could possibly exist in our universe, and they don't appear in the Oprah studio audience. New results have placed an upper limit on the current size of black holes - and at fifty billion suns it's pretty damn big. T

Why Disasters are Getting Worse (983 diggs) If it seems like disasters are getting more common, it's because they are. But some disasters do seem to be affecting us worse — and not for the reasons you may think.

Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole (1,141 diggs) (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they detected structure at a tiny angular scale of 37 micro-arcseconds - the equivalent of a baseball seen on the surface of the moon, 240,000 miles distant. These observat

In order to save on energy, the Eiffel tower cuts lighting (763 diggs) Twenty thousand light bulbs were added to the Eiffel Tower to mark the new millennium, and because people like things that sparkle, the tower is lit every night for 10 minutes. However, Paris officials have decided to cut back and light the tower for just five minutes per night.

7 Places Global Warming is Smacking the Crap Out of Earth (1,062 diggs) It ’s a foreboding sign of what may be to come for the entire world as we battle global warming and experience its full effects.

HOT moms and SEXUAL imprinting (1,132 diggs) GUYS: have you got a hot mom? Chances are your wife will be a looker, too. The same goes for daughters of hunky fathers.

25 Years of Computer Simulation Methodology is Worthlesss (399 diggs) So-called 'intelligent' computer-based methods for classifying patient samples, for example, have been evaluated with the help of two methods that have completely dominated research for 25 years. Now Swedish researchers at Uppsala University are revealing that this methodology is worthless when it comes to practical problems. -BJS

Anti-invisibility cloak gives vision to the invisible (739 diggs) The 'anti-cloak' could overcome one major limitation of the invisibility cloaks being designed and built in physics laboratories across the world: when you're invisible from the outside, the outside is invisible to you.

Evolution of DNA: Open-source software traces code of life (544 diggs) There's a new computer program that knows all about your history - but don't worry, it's not going to report those parking violations. It cares about the evolution of your DNA. And it's open source.

The World's First Photograph (PIC) (1,751 diggs) Centuries of advances in chemistry and optics, including the invention of the camera obscura, set the stage for the world ’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras at his family’s country home. It's pretty cool, check it out.