(NECN) - In Sci-Tech Today, could the New England coastline hold the key reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Researchers are considering a plan to bury carbon monoxide emissions underwater.
Dr. Julia Sable has more on the idea from the Museum of Science Boston.
(NECN: Brian Burnell, Bridgeport, Conn.) - If longevity is a sign of showbiz success, PT Barnum would be very happy with his mummy.
The Egyptian mummy was part of Barnum’s traveling show and has been in the Barnum Museum in Connecticut for more than a century.
For the second time in 3 years scientists are taking a look inside.
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - Massachusetts State Police have new technology to help them fight terrorism at Logan Airport in Boston.
It's a new robot designed to help troopers disarm bombs from a safe distance. The robot id dedicated to Massachusetts soldiers who died in the war on terror.
The manufacturer is Black-I Robotics of Tyngsboro. Its co-founder is Brian Hart, whose son was killed in Iraq.
(NECN) - The controversy over the use of full body scanners at airports continues.
There has been heightened interest in the machines ever since the failed terror attack on Christmas Day.
Security experts say the machines may have detected the explosives hidden in the suspect's underwear, but some say the machines are an invasion of privacy.
Joining NECN to talk about the personal privacy implications is Suffolk University law professor Michael Avery.
(NECN/APTV) - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a new set of tombs belonging to the workers who built the great pyramids, shedding light on how the labourers lived and ate more than 4,000 years ago, according to the antiquities department.
The thousands of men who built the last remaining wonder of the ancient world ate meat regularly, worked in three months shifts and were given the honor of being buried in mud brick tombs within the shadow of the sacred pyramids they worked on.
(NECN/AuBC) - Shipwreck hunters have captured the first underwater footage of an Australian World War II hospital ship that sank in 1943 and left 268 people dead.
A search team led by US shipwreck hunter David Mearns sent a submarine robot more than 6,500 feet (2,000 meters) below the surface to snap the images of the Centaur on Sunday.
The footage showed the ship's bright red cross and a corroded number 47, its identification number.
The Centaur sank off the Queensland state coast during World War II in 1943, with just 64 of the 332 people on board surviving.
(NECN) - On the Secret Life of Animals, we've got the full scoop on kitty litter and litter boxes in pet gear.
Vicki Croke is joined once again by Dr. Smithie and NECN Web Producer Allison Sonfist!
CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's antiquities authority has announced the discovery of a new set of tombs for the workers who built the great pyramids.
Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, says the tombs are significant because they show that the pyramids were not built by slaves, but rather free workers.
Worker tombs were first discovered in the area in the 1990s and shed new light on the daily lives of those who built some of antiquities most famous monuments.
Evidence from the site, according to Sunday's statement,
(NECN) - New in-car technology introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show will provide another distraction for some drivers in the future.
Ford is adding the social networking site twitter to its in-car entertainment and communications service -- known as Sync.
At the CES, Ford unveiled an eight-inch touch screen at the driver's fingertips: GPS for directions, wireless internet throughout the whole car --even change the color of lights around the cupholders-- all coming to cars within the year.
(NECN) - New England was the cradle of the revolution. Not only the political one, but the industrial one, too.
We know that many of the old line manufacturing jobs are gone, never to return.
But there's another wave of manufacturing that's taking shape - Nano technology.
It's the focus of a story in Mass High Tech - the journal of New England technology.
Julie Donnelly joins us from the Mass High Tech newsroom.
To read more about Nano technology, check out MassHighTech.com
