I never write any article about egg donor program before but after I stumbled this Egg Donor Agencies, I realize that I should share my opinion about it in this blog.

“Your Right To Have Children” ….
I think this is the best slogan ever. If we have a trouble starting a family, this might be the best option for us to consider. It is one of best alternative options to a natural conception. Yup, science and technology can help us get pregnant and start your own family. The process it self will not affect the possibility of us becoming pregnant.

Actually, egg donor programs now become one of the known ways for many parents to start their family. The procedure involves retrieval through a needle inserted through the vaginal while the donor is sedated. The fact is, it already helped thousands of women conceive and have children. It’s like giving a life to another birth.

If you want to donate your eggs and this is a very noble thing to do. Contact an egg donation center for further information.

This is Waseda Flutist No. 4 Refined IV.
It was unveiled at the BioRob 2008 conference in Arizona two weeks ago. The scientists created artificial lips with the elasticity of human lips and embedded pins, which control their shape.

The robot’s tongue has been redesigned to enable the double-tonguing technique – the high-speed playing used throughout the famous ‘Flight of the Bumblee’. It even has an in-built mechanism to create vibrato, which can take human players years to master, that changes the amplitude and frequency of the robot’s airflow.

The lungs are composed of two air-tight acrylic cases, with a bellow that allows them to breathe in and out. And the robot’s eyes have two cameras that allow it to interact with the audience and other musicians, so we could soon see it playing duets with people source

Research on the musical robot began in 1990, with the aim that it would eventually rival human musicians. But the WF-4RIV is more than just a gimmick. The makers hope to make it sophisticated enough to achieve better human-computer interaction and then teach music to pupils.

Watch the video after the jump. So impressive!
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It may sound like a pie in the sky idea, but vertical farms containing enough food to feed four million people, could one day divert a potential world food shortage. The huge ‘living’ skyscrapers have captured the imagination of architects in the U.S and Europe as food prices soar. They are the brainchild of Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University.

The revolutionary scientist proposes gleaming 21 storey skyscrapers that could potentially be as productive as 588 acres of land and grow up to 12 million lettuces a year. The farms was assumed to project to cost £45m to build and £2.7m a year to run, would be both environmentally friendly and economically profitable.
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Recycling has been taken to a whole new level thanks to a special type of seeded paper that grows into flowers. The ‘Plant-It’ cards are impregnated with flower seeds that act like a mulch to retain moisture. Once the green-fingered receiver has read the card they follow simple planting instructions and watch it sprout wild flowers a few weeks later.

The cards were designed by the Oakthrift Corporation in partnership with an American company. The Plant-It seeded paper is made from 100 per cent re-cycled paper, soy-based inks, and organic pigments which grow into flowers when planted. The cards germinate quickly if planted inside. If recipients wish to sow them outside Mr Woolf recommends planting them in autumn as cool winter weather helps the seeds to germinate for the following year.

Now maybe it sounds too extreme to do a business up there but this is something that you should not miss. Japan’s £1billion space lab named The Kibo module is now open for business after astronauts completed a six-hour spacewalk!

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station floated into the lab module after power was activated, kick-starting Japan’s permanent place in space. Kibo meaning Hope was delivered by the shuttle Discovery, which blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Saturday for a two-week mission that includes a plumbing call to fix the sole toilet aboard the orbital outpost.
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Our view of the cosmos is veiled by dust and the universe actually shines twice as bright as astronomers had thought, a discovery that will lead to a massive reevaluation of space images. The Hubble space telescope is perhaps the best known source of the many majestic views of the heavens provided by modern astronomy.

But it turns out that many images will have to be reassessed, after the discovery that a tiny amount of the matter in the universe - about 0.01 per cent of normal matter - causes a haze of dust that obscures our view like a pair cosmic sunglasses. The implications for understanding how the very first galaxies - huge masses of stars - evolved after the big bang 13.7 billion years ago are “scary”, said Dr Simon Driver from the University of St Andrews, one of the international team.

In effect, the find means that people have underestimated the size and brightness of distant galaxies and this realisation will have a profound impact on understanding how they winked into being (source)