World powers to discuss Iran sanctions

LONDON (Reuters) – The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany will discuss imposing a third round of sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear program on Friday.
Iran has refused to stop enriching uranium and the West fears it is bent on producing atomic bombs, which Tehran denies.
The United States, which will [...]

Crisis fears make Pakistan court hurry Musharraf case

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court said on Friday it will quickly wrap up hearing challenges to President Pervez Musharraf’s re-election, after an earlier plan for a 10-day adjournment raised fears emergency rule might be declared.
The court will reconvene on Monday instead of November 12, which would have been just three days before Musharraf’s current [...]

World’s Smallest Radio Fits in the Palm of the Hand . . . of an Ant

Single carbon nanotube is fully functional radio, receiving music over standard radio bandwidth

Harnessing the electrical and mechanical properties of the carbon nanotube, a team of researchers has crafted a working radio from a single fiber of that material.
Fixed between two electrodes, the vibrating tube successfully performed the four critical roles of a radio–antenna, tunable filter, [...]

U.S. Fires Release Enormous Amounts of Carbon Dioxide

Large-scale fires in western and southeastern states can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as the states’ entire motor vehicle traffic in a year, according to newly published research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Their paper, “Estimates of [...]

Japanese military to develop Gundam

The Japanese Ministry of Defense is exhibiting at their symposium something called “Toward the realization of Gundam” which is categorized under “Land equipment”. The Department of Ground Systems Development further called it the “Towards The Realization Of Gundam (Advanced Personal Equipment Systems)” on their PDF program. Is Japan really thinking on building mechas?
Many have already [...]