Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Brute Force: Humans Can Sure Take A Punch

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A boxer punching. Credit: stockxpert From Live Science: The human body can take a remarkable amount of punishment, given bones made of one o...

Whales Get Support On Sonar Ban

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Watch CBS News Videos Online From CBS News: NOAA May Limit Sonar Tests, though Another Case Heads to Court. Whales and the U.S. Navy have ta...

Monitoring Cell Death Could Help Cancer Treatment

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Image: Death of a tumor: This PET scan, taken just days after radiation therapy, shows a hot spot of cell-death activity in a brain tumor--a...

Police Want Backdoor To Web Users' Private Data

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From CNET News: Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant. But cybercrim...

No (Primordial) Soup For You: Origins Of Life Were Not What You Think

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From Discovery News: The predominant theory of the origin of life would make a terrific setting for a space horror movie, or a particularly ...

Slate Showdown: iPad vs. HP Slate vs. JooJoo vs. Android Tablets & More

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From Gizmodo: Everybody's talking about tablets, especially those single-pane capacitive touchscreen ones more specifically known as ...

DARPA's Robotic Ghost Ships Will Stalk Submarines

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Robot Frigates Now imagine this ship without the people U.S. Navy/Scott Taylor From Popular Science: Ships that appear in perfect working o...

Amazon Acquires Touch Screen Startup; Souped Up Kindle Being Planned?

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From ZDNet: Amazon is reportedly buying Touchco, a start-up focused on touch screen technology, in a move that may signal a multi-touch Kind...

Exoplanet Gas Spotted From Earth

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Photo : The team used Nasa's Nasa's Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii From The BBC: Astronomers have used a new ground-based tec...

NASA's New Mission: Space To Thrive

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From The Economist: A plan to overhaul America’s space agency is long overdue. IN 2004 George Bush announced a plan for America’s space agen...

Twitter Forces Password Reset to Protect Some Accounts

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From PC World: Twitter required some users to reset their passwords on Tuesday after discovering that their log-in information may have been...

Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern Of Trailing Debris

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This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture a comet-like object called P/2010 A2, which was first discovered by the LINEAR (Lincoln Near-E...

The 'New' NASA Will Look Back At Earth

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An artist's concept of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. Credit: NASA From Live Science: NASA's new proposed budget will in part shif...

Paper Linking Vaccine To Autism Retracted

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There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism. Credit: iStockphoto From Cosmos: PARIS: Medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a 1998 stu...

"Twitteros" Are Mexico's Latest Outlaws

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From CBS News: GlobalPost: From Drug Cartels to Breathalyzer Tipsters, Twitter Users Are Fast Becoming Public Enemy No. 1. Mexico has racked...

iPad Rattles The E-Bookshelves

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Bestseller: The iPad features iBook, an application for buying and reading books. Credit: Apple From Technology Review: But Amazon's e-b...

Google Shows Off Chrome OS Tablet Ideas

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A mock-up of a Chrome OS tablet from Google's Chromium developer site. (Credit: Google) From CNET News: Who could resist the months of h...

The Pursuit Of Intelligence In Computer Science

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What actually constitutes an objective pattern of cognition in machines that we will recognize as intelligent is extremely vague and constan...

NASA Budget Creates Uncertainty In Clear Lake

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From Houston Chronicle: Change came to Washington a year ago with the election of President Barack Obama, and one year later it is thunderin...

China's Power Boom Means West May Swap Oil Dependency For Green Tech Dependency

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A Wind Power Field Near Xinxiang, China Chris Lim From Popular Science: President Obama made it clear in his State of the Union Address la...