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Martin Cooper changed the world when he made the first cell phone call 40 years ago. The former Motorola vice president and division manager made the call on the company’s DynaTAC phone while standing in front of the New York Hilton on Sixth Avenue. His first call: to the head of research at Bell Labs, a company that also was attempting to build the first cell phone. Cooper’s call did more than untether people from their fixed phone lines; it [...]
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By Charlotte Gerber Photographer and Camera Collector The first camera invented was made by Alexander Wolcott. His camera design was patented on May 8, 1840. His invention made it possible for candid photos to be taken and not fade away with time. Mr. Wolcott also has the distinction of opening the earliest photography shop (known as a daguerran parlor) in New York. Ads by Google Top Image Backup Software Recover A Whole System Instantly. Backup w/ UltraBac. Free Trial Now! [...]
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Record-breakers in the news today It’s been revealed that a passenger aircraft had a narrow miss with an unidentified object over in Scotland last year. The Airbus A320 was making its final approach to Glasgow Airport on 2 December when an object passed about 300ft underneath it. The world’s first UFO sighting by a pilot occurred on 31 January 1916, when a British pilot near Rochford, Essex, reported seeing a row of lights, resembling the lighted windows on a train [...]
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The Harvard fly is not the first tiny flying robot, but it may be the tiniest. A team at KMel Robotics has built drones that are about six inches across, have rotors instead of wings, and can fly autonomously in swarms. Aerovironment’s Nano Hummingbird has flapping wings, as its name suggests, that span just 6.5 inches. But until now, flapping-wing robots as small as the Harvard one have achieved stable flight only by being attached to guide rails. The [...]
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Our genes harbor many secrets to a long and healthy life. And now scientists are beginning to uncover them. By Stephen S. Hall Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann On a crisp January morning, with snow topping the distant Aspromonte mountains and oranges ripening on the nearby trees, Giuseppe Passarino guided his silver minivan up a curving mountain road into the hinterlands of Calabria, mainland Italy’s southernmost region. As the road climbed through fruit and olive groves, Passarino, a geneticist at the [...]
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For the first time, researchers with the captive breeding project have managed to raise nine limosa harlequin frogs from one mating pair, and they have hundreds of tadpoles on hand from a second breeding pair. The diminutive amphibians—whose young are small enough to perch atop George Washington’s face on the U.S. quarter—are of the chevron-patterned variety of limosa harlequin frog. “These frogs represent the last hope for their species,” said biologist Brian Gratwicke, of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, in [...]
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March Madness, that is, as Thursday marks the start of one of America’s favorite sports traditions: more formally known as the NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball Championship. Each year, 68 teams enter the single-elimination tournament to crown college basketball’s champion. With match-ups played from coast to coast, spanning three weeks, and with some days featuring as many as 12 straight hours of simultaneous games, it’s a hoops lover’s dream come true. At Guinness World Records, it’s no different, despite one [...]
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Born in Sabaneta, Venezuela, on July 28, 1954, Hugo Chávez attended the Venezuelan military academy and served as an army officer before participating in an effort to overthrow the government in 1992, for which he was sentenced to two years in prison. Chávez became president of Venezuela in 1999. Early into his presidency, he created a new constitution for the country, which included changing its name to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He later focused his efforts on gaining control [...]
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