This is so cool: IBM researchers on Tuesday said they have discovered a way to make Earth-friendly plastic from plants that could replace petroleum-based products tough on the environment. The breakthrough promises biodegradable plastics made in a way that saves on energy, according to Chandrasekhar “Spike” Narayan, a manager of science and technology at IBM’s […]
And we don’t like it: Iran is to launch two more rockets into space in the next few months, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Monday, after a firing of a rocket earlier this month sparked international concern. “Two other rockets will be launched so that we can then send a satellite into space,” Ahmadinejad said […]
That is what he keeps saying. Now it is time to put up or shut-up: The American-led crackdown in Baghdad has not succeeded in reducing a “disheartening” level of violence across the capital and a new approach is needed, a military spokesman said today. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the senior spokesman for the […]