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A visually stunning trip through the known universe by the American Museum of Natural History. You never knew how small the Earth is, how beautiful, how singular and alone.
 

Another visual stunning trip through the Universe is the introductory scene from the movie, "Contact" with Jody Foster and Matthew McConaughey. A Must Buy movie, by the way...

From Youtube:

"The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010."

"Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/univ...

Visualization Software: Uniview by SCISS

Director: Carter Emmart
Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer
Producer: Michael Hoffman
Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler
Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen
Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott

Music: Suke Cerulo

For more information visit http://www.amnh.org
Category:  Science & Technology"

New endless possibilities... Growing new body parts is becoming a reality. One man grew a new esophagus lining, another man grew new muscle tissue. Ears, fingers, bladders, livers, kidneys, hearts, heart valves, more.

Watch CBS News Videos Online

Morley Safer interviews several doctors, one whose name is Dr. Badylak, pronounced "Battleax." Among other things, Dr. Badylak’s team has found that extracellular matrix (ECM) can help create a biologic scaffold for tissue repair and regeneration.

Here's another more indepth article:
Medicine's Cutting Edge: Re-Growing Organs

This new "car" has an onboard hydrogen fuel plant. It puts out enough electricity to power your home. And power half your street to boot.

In goes salt water, out comes plain water. Is there a downside? Doesn't seem to be. Of course, they wouldn't want to reveal that at this point. This "transport" vehicle, the GM Hy-wire, also dubbed "Vectra," is A-mazing.

More from GM and Automotoportal.com

This car is not available for purchase; there's only one in the entire world. And, the price value is somewhere around $10 million dollars. The research costs would probably make it a billion.

It's completely non-polluting. What about the manufacturing? Would that be excessively polluting? It has no batteries, therefore no lead, no cadmium, ?. So, what is the "power plant" made of?

It's computerized. Would that mean a reboot whilst on the freeway? Asphalt screen of death...

Doubtful that Microsoft is involved. And by the design look, Apple isn't either.

Really this is a rather phenomenal futuristic car. You could use it to power your life, your neighbor's life, and even your street life.

Sell the extra power back to the grid. I have huge doubts at this point. But, GM has captured the imagination, that's for sure.

Notes:

It's supposedly the car of the future.

"...Probably the most advanced power system in the world: a completely non polluting fuel cell that takes hydrogen and produces electricity with the only by-product being a little bit of water vapour.

As if that wasn't enough, all the controls are "by-wire" with no physical linkages from accelerator, brake or even steering wheel. That means the driver can press a button to change from right hand drive to left hand drive...

Performance
Power: 82 bhp
Top speed: 99 mph
0 - 62 mph: 16.0 seconds
Fuel consumption: Range of 124 miles

Dimensions
Length, mm: 5000
Width, mm: N/A
Height, mm: N/A
Boot, litres: N/A
Fuel Tank, litres: 3 hydrogen tanks pressurised to 5,000 psi
Dry Weight, kg: 1900

Stats Information from automotoportal.com.

They call it the Hy-Wire mainly because it's drive train consists of a smallish computer cable. Very strange.

GM might be really on to something. It's hard to believe it's completely non-polluting. Hydrogen is difficult to produce. It will be fascinating to discover all the little details.

Really, this is quite stunning. The possibilities boggle the mind.