Velcro
Velcro is a fabric-strip fastener that takes the place of zippers, buttons, hooks, and snaps. It was invented by a Swiss engineer named Georges de Mestral. In 1948, on returning from a day's hu...
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Dusseldorf (dpa) - Whether for football, basketball or jogging -
trainers have carved out a fashion niche for themselves and the
desire to combine them with jeans, a skirt o...
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She says space smells like a "burned almond cookie." She praises the wonders of Velcro, and describes the hazards of trying to wash her hair in zero gravity.
Space tourist Anousheh Ansari'...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Researchers in Germany have successfully taken
stunning three-dimensional scans of human tissue, using a new
technique that could help provide new clues to s...
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Inventors of the MRI, the Ethernet, the LP record and a popular weedkiller are among 18 people picked for induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.The 2007 class of inductees, announced T...
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Inventors of the MRI, the Ethernet, the LP record and a popular weedkiller are among 18 people picked for induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.The 2007 class of inductees was to be an...
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Authorities were investigating the identity and cause of death of a young girl whose remains washed ashore inside a storage box on West Galveston Bay.A fisherman called police after finding the pla...
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Leather belts with brass buckles are out; nylon belts with quick-release plastic buckles are in. Slacks are out; lightweight cargo pants are in. Shiny badges and nameplates are out; cloth patches a...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Now you can win a chance to become an astronaut
under rules of a competition launched by a German carmaker in a bid
to promote its new model.
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