Wednesday, November 18, 2009

No Surprise: Coed Dorms Fuel Sex and Drinking

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From Live Science: It's no secret to students that coed dorms are more fun than same-sex dorms. But they can also fuel very unhealthy be...

Neuron Chamber Mimics Brain

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From Wired: The Neuron Chamber, on display at San Francisco's Exploratorium, is an interactive, electro-kinetic sculpture representing t...

Heart Disease Was Rife Among Affluent Ancient Egyptians

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X-rays of ancient Egyptian mummies hint that modern lifestyles may not be entirely to blame for heart disease. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Fro...

Female Sexual Dysfunction: Myth or Malady?

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Ian Hooton / Corbis From Time Magazine: There was a time when Wendy and her husband had sex three times a week. But for the past six years, ...

Why Web Widgets Will Invade Your TV

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Image: Beware, the web widgets are coming. Rob Dunlavey From The Christian Science Monitor: Web widgets bring Internet perks to the biggest...

Innovation: The Dizzying Ambition Of Wolfram Alpha

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From New Scientist: When the search engine Wolfram Alpha launched earlier this year, the interest was huge. Enticed by a well-oiled publici...

Google, Bing Continue Gains At Yahoo's Expense

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From CNET: Yahoo continues to lose share in the search market, as Google and Microsoft pick up the difference. Comscore's measurement o...

The Top 8 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2009

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(Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images) From Popular Mechanics: Paleontologists have had a good year, bringing a slew of new dinosaurs to the b...

Spanish Scientists Mod Optical Mouse Into Counterfeit Coin Detector

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Counterfeit Coin Detector Tresanchez et al., via EurekAlert From Popular Science: Counterfeiting is as old as mon...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Ancient Weapons Dug Up by Archaeologists in England

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Over 5000 worked flints came from one small area, including flint cores used for tool creation, blades, flakes and 'debitage' (small...

The Future of Evolution: What Will We Become?

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Could humans split into two species? Perhaps, if we engineer one or if a colony is isolated in outer space. Image credit: stockxpert From Li...

How To Upgrade A Supercomputer, 37,376 Chips At A Time

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From Gadget Lab: The most powerful supercomputer in the world, the Cray XT5 — aka ‘Jaguar’ — is a computing monster with the ability to cloc...

Vaccines On Horizon For AIDS, Alzheimer's

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From Time Magazine: (MARIETTA, Pa.) — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infe...

Interview: The Man Who Makes Killer Robots For The US Military

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From CNET: It sounds like the opening scene of a Terminator movie: a team of intelligent air, land and sea robots working together to hunt d...

Don't Pack Your Parachute: Totally Free Fall

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From New Scientist: ON A bright day in 1912, an Austrian tailor named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. This was ...

Top 10 Languages On The Internet

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From Discovery News: f the Internet is the new public square, it's crowded and noisy. More than 1.4 billion people gather and talk on it...

The Retirement Of The Space Shuttle—And What's Next For NASA

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From Popular Mechanics: Today, November 16, 2009, the Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched to rendezvous with the International Spac...

A Case In Antiquities For ‘Finders Keepers’

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Viktor Koen From New York Times: Zahi Hawass regards the Rosetta Stone, like so much else, as stolen property languishing in exile. “We own ...

Best of What's New 2009: The Year's 100 Greatest Innovations

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Best of What's New 2009: Click here to explore the full list From Popular Science: Innovation manifests itself in myriad ways: groundb...

Report: Countries Prepping For Cyberwar

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Countries armed with "cyberweapons," according to McAfee. (Credit: McAfee) From CNET: Major countries and nation-states are engage...