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Cnet reports that “Engineers at Kansas State University have developed a radio with sensors and microprocessors that can transmit data and is self-sufficient when it comes to power. The device, called by the engineers an “energy-harvesting radio,” is essentially a

This week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee released a report accusing Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, of being deceptive and opaque in his management of the agency’s affairs. That a politician would pull such moves

This bit of data was re-posted from Parade magazine on the GRG mailing list today. The numbers are of course projected to grow. How many people in this country are 100 or older? At the time of the last census,

According to this news story, “An Indian woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 70 after receiving fertility treatment.” Let’s hope she lives to at least 90 so her child will have some time to

From MIT Tech Review: “Many believe that lasers should be used not just to create wounds but to mend them too. Abraham Katzir, a physicist at Tel Aviv University, has a system that may just do the trick and is

This, from BusinessWeek, is no surprise to those of us living in Silicon Valley. “a November 2008 study by Robert W. Fairlie, a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, gives the strongest evidence to date that critics

From Cnet news: “Professor Kishan Dholakia and Dr. Frank Gunn-Moore–both of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland–say the “light saber” could be used routinely on cancer patients within the next five years. The method would allow chemotherapy drugs to

From the UK’s Daily Mail: “Scientists believe that ‘heavy water’ enriched with a rare form of hydrogen could add as much as 10 years to life. Foods, from steak to eggs, could also be modified to allow us to eat

This is great news, particularly since the American population is aging and cancer tends to strike older people at higher rates. From Reuters: “Cancer rates have dropped for the first time in the United States and previous declines in cancer

According to the Arizona Republic, “The chairman of Eli Lilly & Co. said the future of the pharmaceutical industry rests not with blockbuster drugs but with targeted therapies that work for smaller groups of people based on their biological makeup.”