The 2014 Corvette Stingray Balances Classic Style With Improved Performance
Posted in: Today's ChiliChevrolet has now unveiled its seventh generation of Corvettes. The 2014 Corvette Stingray was revealed this week at the Detroit Auto Show. While retaining iconic Corvette spirit and style, the 2014 Corvette Stingray also incorporates advanced technological features in a complete redesign, the seventh such change in the brand’s 60 year history. Read on to learn what’s new.
A scientific breakthrough, something obese and overweight people have only dreamed about, has been made at the University of Florida’s (UF) Sid Martin Biotechnology Development Institute, where Dr. Stephen Hsu and his research team have identified a ‘fat gene’ called TRIP-Br2.
When the team controlled the expression of this gene in mice, the mice
were unable to gain weight, no matter how much they ate.
The 2013 Consumer Electronics Show is underway in Las Vegas, Nevada this week, and innovators of all stripes are showcasing a variety of new wares, from massive designs to pocket-sized gadgets. Some of these new products will come to revolutionize the way we live and some will just fade away. Here are videos of a few promising new items from the show.
Under the heading ‘Be careful what you wish for,’ the inventor of the take-a-walk-on-wheels motorized Segway, Dean Kamen,
has applied for a patent for a pump that removes a portion of the food
you’ve just eaten from your stomach. Partners in this patent are members
of a company called Aspire Bariatrics. Here’s a brief description of
how the stomach sucker works….
Scientists often struggle to come up with artificial means to accomplish
medical goals, when all the while nature has the answer. Such an
answer has been found in the Douglas Fir, Pseudotsuga menzietii,
which not only happens to form an ideal shape for a Christmas tree, but
also holds a very important biological agent in its needles – a natural
antimicrobial.