giant leap

Bio-engineering is making some serious progress. It seems like the more we learn about biology, the more we can use biology to help solve all kinds of problems that you wouldn't necessarily think would be related to biology.

Here are just a few cool examples of biology research that sound like they could serve mankind (and hopefully not in the "cookbook" sense).

SpaceX is poised to take a giant leap with the biggest rocket since the Saturn V carried men to the moon, and it could blast off by early 2013.

Physicists at the University of California have taken a giant leap closer to creating a new computer chip that gives memory the brains of a CPU, which would be the basis for an 'always-on' state.

BitTorrent Inc. has been very active with the development of uTorrent during the past months.

Earlier this year the company pushed out two experimental clients, codenamed Falcon and Griffin.

Back in June, popular Twitter desktop app TweetDeck made a splash when it launched its iPhone app.

NPR: "It's big. It's ugly. And it's made from recycled parts, at least for now. It's called the "Frankencamera" — and it might someday change the way you take pictures."

One of the most unforgettable quotes on Earth — witnessed live by some six hundred million people — wasn't uttered here.

"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind," the famous words of astronaut Neil Armstrong upon becoming the first person to set foot on another world, have a lasting legacy not likely to be met until human exploration eventually reaches our planetary neighbors.

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It may not be a moon landing, or a giant leap for mankind, but the first human tweet from space has just made its way over the microblogging platform to Earth.

Due to the extraordinary nature of the tweet, this very first one is likely to go down in the annals of Twitter history.