Sunday, June 28, 2009

Electronic Nose Can Pinpoint Where Wine Was Made

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The new technology is said to be able to pinpoint where wine was made, even identifying the barrel in which it fermented. From The Telegraph...

Stone Age Wells Found In Cyprus

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From The BBC: Archaeologists have found a group of water wells in western Cyprus believed to be among the oldest in the world. The skeleton ...

Google Voice Gives You One Number to Ring Them All

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From Popsci.com: The service, which launched publicly this week, includes automatic transcription of voicemail and recording of calls Google...

PICTURES: Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female

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From National Geographic: June 16, 2009--Inside France's 25,000-year-old Pech Merle cave, hand stencils surround the famed "Spotted...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

China’s Manufacturing Boom Has Brought Widespread Pollution And Unexpected Changes To The Bodies, Minds, And Souls Of The Chinese People

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A River Runs Through It -- Search Magazine China’s manufacturing boom has brought widespread pollution—and unexpected changes to the bodies,...

Black Holes On A Desktop

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From The Economist: Sound may offer a better way than light to test Stephen Hawking’s prediction that black holes emit radiation. WHEN the L...

One In 25 Deaths Worldwide Attributable To Alcohol

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From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (June 27, 2009) — Research from Canada's own Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) featured in ...

Study Dispels Myth of Post-Workout Fat Burn

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Yes, you burn calories while weightlifting, running or doing other exercise. No, the calorie burn does not continue as you pig out later. Im...

Vatican’s Celestial Eye, Seeking Not Angels But Data

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From The New York Times: MOUNT GRAHAM, Ariz. — Fauré’s “Requiem” is playing in the background, followed by the Kronos Quartet. Every so ofte...

Brains Replay Memories While We Sleep And Store The Highlights, Claim Scientists

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From The Telegraph: We may think we are asleep - but deep in the recesses of our mind a "memory editor" is working overtime, repla...

Sun Leaves Earth Wide Open To cCsmic Rays

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The sun protects the earth from cosmic rays and dust from the solar system but squeezing of various stars could leave us unprotected (Image:...
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Light Goes Out On Solar Mission

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From The BBC: After more than 18 years studying the Sun, the plug is finally being pulled on the ailing spacecraft Ulysses. Final communicat...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Ancient Climate Change: When Palm Trees Gave Way To Spruce Trees

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New research reveals the demise of an ancient forest. These are dawn redwood stumps on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut. (Credit: Copyright Davi...

Nanoparticles Explored for Preventing Cell Damage

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Sudipta Seal, materials scientist and engineer at the University of Central Florida, holds a bottle containing billions of ultrasmall, engin...

Dreaming Of Nonsense: The Evolutionary Enigma Of Dream Content

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From Scientific American: Friday, June 19, 2:12 a.m.: Loading up the trunk of my car with clothes hangers when approached by two transients…...

FYI: Why Does My Voice Sound Different When I Hear it On A Recording?

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Tone Deaf: Your voice makes
 vibrations that only you can hear iStock From Popsci.com: It sounds different because it is different. "...

How Michael Jackson's Death Shut Down Twitter, Brought Chaos To Google... And 'Killed Off' Jeff Goldblum

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TMZ.com was the first to break the story that Michael Jackson had had a cardiac arrest . From The Daily Mail: The internet came alive like n...

Magnetic 'Superatoms' Promise Tuneable Materials

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Designer clusters of atoms that can mimic other elements have for the first time been devised with magnetic properties (Image: Ulises Revele...

The Milk Myth: What a Body Really Needs

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Photo: Milk is dandy, but yogurt has more calcium and is easier to digest. Collards and other greens also have about as much or more calciu...

Space Shuttle Science Shows How 1908 Tunguska Explosion Was Caused By A Comet

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In 1927 Professor Leonid Kulik took the first photographs of the massive destruction of the taiga forest after the Tunguska catastrophe. (Cr...