Sunday, February 8, 2009

3-D Enthusiasm Is Anything But Flat

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Welcome to my world: K.C. Blake is director of business development at the L.A.-based Entertainment Technology Center, where the Home 3D Ex...

Step Made Toward Invisible Electronics

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The new helmet for the F35 fighter. It's also the Heads Up Display, or HUD. Meaning the pilot will get the data he needs to fly and flig...

Kissing Feels So Pleasurable Due To Hormone Surge, Find Scientists

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From The Telegraph: The reason that kissing feels so pleasurable is that sparks a surge of hormones in our brains, according to new research...

New Science Could Defeat Food Crises

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Wheat Fields (Image from Cutting Edge News ) From The Guardian: Breakthroughs in microscopic engineering could boost shelf life of food and ...

The Look Of Love? Women Are Attracted To Men With Big Pupils, Says Study

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Was Jennifer Aniston's character Beth in the film He's Just Not That Into You attracted to her boyfriend Neil, played by Ben Affleck...

Global Warming Studies Often Depend On Average Citizens

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Photo : From Care Global Warming . From McClatchy: WASHINGTON — It has to do with brown-headed cowbirds and clear-cut forests, lilacs and wi...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

America’s Wind Corridor

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New trade: A Clipper crew assembles the hub of a wind turbine in an Iowa factory that formerly built printing presses. (Mark Clayton) From...

Curing Baldness Could Be A Step To Organ Regeneration

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Deep roots. For a hair follicle to begin a new phase of growth, an elusive group of cells called the hair germ (bright red) must be activate...

Large Hadron Collider To Be Re-Started Later This Year

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At Cern, the Large Hadron Collider could recreate conditions that last prevailed when the universe was less than a trillionth of a second ol...

Nearly A Billion People Go Hungry Every Day – Can GM Crops Help Feed Them?

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A protester vandalises a GM crop trial. Qualms about GM food may be a luxury Africa can ill afford. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA From The ...

Study: How Money Can Buy Happiness

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From Live Science: You've heard many times that money can't buy happiness. That probably never stopped you from shopping. But a new ...

"Noah's Flood" Not Rooted In Reality, After All?

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Some believe that Noah's Ark came to rest on Turkey's Mount Ararat, above. But the ancient flood that some scientists think gave ris...

Neanderthal Genome To Be Unveiled

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Image: Neanderthals are the closest hominid relatives of modern humans. The two species co-existed in Europe and western Asia as late as 30...

Are We Bringing Our Germs to Mars?

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From Time Magazine: Star Trek fans know it as the Prime Directive: that there should be no interference with the internal affairs of other c...
Friday, February 6, 2009

Plumbing The Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking On The World's Water Supply

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An Israeli employee inspects membranes that extract salt from the water at Ashkelon's seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant, south of Te...

TED: Change The World With $100,000

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From CBS News: CBS Technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg is reporting from the TED conference in Long Beach, Calif. The concept is simple;...

Top 5 Most Extreme Exoplanets

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From Wired Science: Searching for planets beyond our solar system is a bit like playing Goldilocks — we keep looking for that one that will ...

Welcome To Cyber-London (But You Can Only Visit The Posh Bits)

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The virtual recreation of London includes Big Ben though curiously not the Houses of Parliament From The Daily Mail: A virtual recreation of...

Key Insights Into How New Species Emerge

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A female apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, implants an egg into an apple. Wasps that attack the flies and eat their larvae appear to b...

Man Runs 7 Marathons In 5 Days

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Photo : Richard Donovan in action in the Himalayan 100 mile race. From RTE . From Live Science: Richard Donovan, a 42-year-old from Ireland,...