For those exercise enthusiasts out there here's a new type of treadmill, contained in an enclosure full of water, providing a more challenging environment. Pretty cool! Enjoy!

NASA hopes that this new rover concept is the way to go into the future and it will lead towards a new way of exploring harsh environments, hopefully on other planets! Very cool! And here's an actual (smaller) project built by NASA:

This is actually a design environment which includes a white board. Have a look...it's truly awesome.

Imagine having a picture and being able to transform it into a 3D environment, and then navigating through it like you were there. What is more spectacular, is that this system would be able to transform the pictures from Google Earth into spectacular 3D environments. Wow.

White blood cells protect us from infections and all kind of nasties. A low white cell count in your blood can spell danger, as you are exposed to the environment. BUT...do you know how they work? Actually they are just a big predator in our blood. Here's a video showing them in action, hunting. Enjoy!

This baby should go head to head in a drag race with a F1 car, not a Corvette. Damn..this the fastest accelerating, road legal car I've ever seen. Too bad the owner is so full of himself Enjoy the show!

Parkour is now the new extreme urban sport. Invented in France, it's actually a form of climbing, jumping, and doing all kinds of stunts in an urban environment. The catch is that everything has to have a nice flow to it. That said, it's time to watch this cool video, and see how some of the best guys do it! Enjoy!

A new advanced thermometer, based on noise Johnson, increased by five times the accuracy of current systems After seven years of work, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Nist), the U.S. organization for the development of technologies, have managed to build a new type of thermometer, Johnson Noise Thermometer (Jnt), defined by the same scientists a goal of thermometry, which advances to five times the current state of the art. The new device will in fact take measurements of extreme precision, never obtained so far, fundamental for basic research and for the definition of units of measurement. At the head of the project is Sam Benz, the Quantum Devices Group, which officially presented it on June 9th at a conference on measures of accuracy in Broomfield, Colorado. The new thermometer provides the temperature starting from noise Johnson (hence the name), generated by the random motion of electrons inside a resistance. This measure is directly proportional to the temperature, and the system makes it possible to reduce the error without any additional calibrations. "All measurements are electrical, and do not require volumes of gas or mechanical systems that sometimes, depending on environmental conditions, could give approximate results." says Benz, " beauty is that the measurement is also very simple to perform. "

Three studies have demonstrated for the first time a genetic cause for this type of cancer. Perhaps also responsible for nicotine dependence A gene variation on a region of chromosome 15 is related to the risk of developing lung cancer. At this same result came three independent studies, two published in Nature and one in Nature Genetics, and is the first time that there is a genetic cause for lung cancer, in addition to environmental factors among them, of course, smoking. Between cancer and smoking is perhaps the most obvious cause-effect relationship in epidemiology. And here lies the point: a region of chromosome contains objected to three genes which in turn contain the instructions to produce a very particular protein: the nicotinic receptor for acetylcholine. As the name implies, this receptor has a strong affinity for nicotine and a change in its structure could cause cancer in itself and, affect dependence on smoking (according to the second one of the three studies)

Even a visual stimulus extremely short, less than millisecond, affects the decoding of information in the nervous system. The Ferrari of insects, the horsefly, a tiny acrobat who moves at high speed, has proved that even a very short visual stimulus (on the scale of milliseconds) affects decoding information in the nervous system. This was discovered by scientists in universities of Indiana, Princeton (New Jersey) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico), one of the largest multidisciplinary institutions in the world. A human being is unable to record the continuous change of scenery and should have a supra-sensory stimulation. But this is a fly: its nervous system processes information very quickly so that the insect can adapt to what he sees with a reaction time of 30 milliseconds. "During the flight," says Ruyter van Steveninck University of Indiana, "the horsefly must quickly analyze a number of complex information and, because of its ability to move rapidly, it is reasonable to think that the way it deciphers level sensory-motor data is optimal. We then decided to study its visual system to understand how his brain can order a continuous stream of very complex data in such an efficient way. "

How can you convert waste into energy in the most efficient way possible? The secret is in riboflavin. The microorganisms have the ability to change the chemistry of the environment. This is known for a long time, but if some of these can generate energy from the degradation of organic compounds has not yet been clarified. One answer comes from an American study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Pnas): BioTechnology researchers from the Institute of the University of Minnesota have found that the riboflavin, better known as vitamin B-2, is the key to the production of electricity by the microorganism Shewanella, a bacterium that is commonly found in water and soil.