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Recently a team of British scientists has embarked on the first step of creating a space elevator. Given a $4 million research reward from NASA, a research team at Cambridge University has produced the world’s strongest ribbon: a cylindrical strand of carbon that merges lightweight flexibility with astounding durability and embodies the potential to stretch immense distances. The innovation has been touted by the space scientists, who consider the technology to allow astronauts to travel into space via a cable thousands of miles long.

These scientists anticipate the breakthrough will revolutionize space travel. Such a space elevator could potentially offer limitless and inexpensive space travel. It would make everything from tourism to more provocative expeditions to Mars commercially viable. The idea was a good timing for NASA, which spends an estimated $500 million for every shuttle mission, together with the polluting 900 tons of rocket fuel.

The personal information of millions of job applicants have been stolen in the biggest data theft in Britain. Hackers had managed to gain access to sensitive details provided by 4.5 million job  seekers to Monster.co.uk, the online employment website. People’s Names, passwords, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, birth dates, sex and ethnic background information data as well as other “demographic information,” were stolen, the company disclosed  It is the most widespread violation of confidential information since the UK tax and customs authority lost the details of 25 million child-benefit recipients in 2007.

The people affected are mainly professional personnel who are looking for work during the economic downturn. Registrations at the website, which allows employers to browse thousands of resumes on the web, have surged as layoffs have increased. “It’s a horrendous breach,” said Graham Cluley, of Sophos, an IT security firm. “The information they have can be used to cause all kinds of mischief.”

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New Mexico State University scientists have set in motion a NASA balloon from the McMurdo Station in Antarctica for a record-setting flight. The university stated that the balloon is the biggest successful single cell super pressure balloon ever released to the air. The balloon has been flying at an altitude of about 110,000 feet since being launched nearly a month to the day.

Researchers say the next generation of super pressure balloons will be able to fly for a longer mission duration and carry heavier data gathering instrumentation. The university’s Physical Science Laboratory manages the $238 million NASA contract for the operation, maintaining and engineering support for the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility. The facility releases between fifteen and twenty balloons each year from sites in New Mexico, Sweden, Antarctica, South American and Australia.

By conducting two Google searches from a desktop computer can create about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle, based on new research. A typical search generates about 7 grams of CO2. Boiling a kettle generates about 15 grams. This is the case since Google operates vast data centers around the world that consume significant power. Google is tight-lipped about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. It also does not disclose the locations of its data centers. However, with more than 200 million online searches estimated globally on a daily basis, the electricity consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions caused by computers and the Internet is provoking concern.

A recent review by Gartner stated the global IT industry generated as much greenhouse gas as the world’s airlines — about 2% of global CO2 emissions. User searches are often sent to servers thousands of miles apart, whichever produces the answer fastest. The system minimizes delays but increases. energy consumption. Google maintains servers in the U.S., Europe, Japan and China.

Britain’s Home Office has secretly adopted a new plan to allow police routinely snoop on people’s personal computers without serving a warrant. The policy, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has maddened civil liberties groups and opposition members of Parliament. These groups described it as an evil extension of the “big brother ” surveillance state which ignores privacy laws. The hacking is known as “remote searching,” which offers police or intelligence personnel who may be far removed to secretly infiltrate the hard drive of someone’s computer at their home, office or anywhere else.

Material accumulated in this fashion includes the content of all e-mails, Internet browsing, and instant messaging. Under the Brussels decree, police across the European Union have been given the green light to expand the implementation of a seldomly used power involving warrantless intrusive surveillance of private assets. For example, the policy will allow French, German and other EU forces to request British officers to hack into someone’s U.K. computer and submit any material learned.

Scientists in New Zealand are about to discover what are the contents of the stomach of a great white shark, as they perform a necropsy on the 10-foot animal. This is believed to be the first autopsy of its kind, taking place in front of about 1,000 people as well as being streamed live online. The shark will be dissected and its organs explored during the necropsy at Auckland Museum  where researchers hope the procedure will help add to their minimal information of one of the sea’s least known about animals.

Up to 10 people per week are having to go to a hospital with injuries as a result of playing Nintendo Wii games. As a result, doctors in Britain have issued alerts of the dangers associated with the gaming system. Most patients are hospitalized after playing tennis or running games which involve abrupt movements, resulting in tendon stretching or tearing.

Another common injury is dubbed Wii-knee, due to the bending of the knee from the Wii-Fit game.  It entails a special raised step and a series of movements ranging from yoga to strength-training moves. In rare cases, the kneecap can be dislocated or pop out of joint. Doctors treat Wii-knee with cortisone injections, icing, and anti-inflammatory painkillers. Treatment can last for 3 months. As with any exercise program, doctors advise stretching exercises before playing Wii games.