Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Can Twitter Make Money?

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Twitter and the Real-Time Web: On the real-time Web, information is created and consumed instantly, often through blogs and social networks...

Sight Savers: New Weapons Trained On Blindness

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From New Scientist: It starts with a barely perceptible blurring of vision from time to time - the sort of thing you might chalk up to getti...

DARPA Orders Smart Robotic Terminator Hands For A Better Tomorrow

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Terminator's Arm My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer. From Popular Science: Pentagon mad scientists at DARPA have co...

Life-Like Evolution In A Test Tube

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With colleague Tracey Lincoln, Gerald Joyce (picured) has created an artificial genetic system that can undergo self-sustained replication a...

Small Dogs Originated In The Middle East

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A single gene is responsible for the size of dogs -- big and small. Getty Images From Discovery News: These miniature mutts were the descen...

Technology That Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

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If you can't be with the one you love, log onto Facebook. Or Skype. Or Second Life. From MSNBC: Today's faraway lovers prefer e-mail...

Geologists Look For Answers In Antarctica: Did Ice Exist At Equator Some 300 Million Years Ago?

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From Science Daily: Science Daily (Feb. 24, 2010) — Focusing on a controversial hypothesis that ice existed at the equator some 300 million ...

Parents Choosing More Unusual Baby Names Now

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From Live Science: Celebrities aren't the only ones giving their babies unusual names. Compared with decades ago, parents are choosing l...

Shuttle Sparks Panic In Central America

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From Information Week: Endeavour's sonic boom over El Salvador sent residents into the streets and put local authorities on high alert. ...

Sat-Nav Systems Under Growing Threat From 'Jammers'

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Photo: Society will only get ever more dependent on sat-nav systems From The BBC: Technology that depends on satellite-navigation signals i...

How Rest Helps Memory: Sleepy Heads

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From The Economist: Researchers say a nap prepares the brain to learn. MAD dogs and Englishmen, so the song has it, go out in the midday sun...

Yahoo Turns On The Twitter Firehose

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From CNET: Yahoo has agreed to purchase access to the Twitter firehose, adding real-time Twitter content to both search results and Yahoo pr...

Primitive Humans Conquered Sea, Surprising Finds Suggest

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Surprisingly old hand axes have been found on the Greek island of Crete, at center in this composite of satellite images. Blue Marble image ...

The Present And Future Of Unmanned Drone Aircraft: An Illustrated Field Guide

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The Avenger: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems From Popular Science: Inside the wild kingdom of the world’s newest and most spectacular ...

Thousands Of Authors Opt Out Of Google Book Settlement

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From The Guardian: Some 6,500 writers, from Thomas Pynchon to Jeffrey Archer, have opted out of Google's controversial plan to digitise ...

Coral Reefs Will Dissolve Within 100 Years In Acidic Seas, Say Marine Experts

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The Great Barrier Reef off Australia's coast (above) is known for its abundance of marine life. From The Daily Mail: The world's mos...

Does Coffee Kill The Benefits Of Vitamins?

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From Live Science: Any beverage or food containing caffeine such as coffee, tea, chocolate and some sodas can inhibit the absorption of vita...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Where Did Insects Come From? New Study Establishes Relationships Among All Arthropods

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This animal, Speleonectes tulumensis, is from a group of rare, blind, cave-dwelling crustaceans called "remipedes." The new analys...

The Future Of Money: It’s Flexible, Frictionless And (Almost) Free

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Cash in the clouds—neither paper nor plastic. Illustration: Aegir Hallmundur; Benjamin Franklin: Corbis From Wired Magazine: A simple typo g...

We Are Happiest At 74, Says New Report

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From The Telegraph: Seventy-four year-olds are the most contented people in the population, according to new research. Fewer responsibilitie...