Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Google Map Reveals Britain Is Third In The World For 'Big Brother' Requests About Its Citizens

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The Google Government Requests tool shows how many data and censorship demands the search giant receive every six month From The Daily Mail:...

New iPhone Prototype Leaked?

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From ABC News: Technology Web Site Gizmodo Says It Got Its Hands on Lost Next Generation iPhone. A prototype of the next generation of the i...

South Korea Developing Underwater Search-and-Rescue Robot Crawlers

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Underwater swimmers and crawlers could speed up rescue efforts for incidents such as the recent sinking of a South Korean Navy frigate. From...

Obama Consigns Moon Landings To History

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Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, 20 July 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin is among those who support the ending of the planned Moon landin...

Why Aviation Industry Has Cloudy Knowledge Of Risks From Volcanic Ash

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From The Guardian: Tests for higher-risk flying conditions may have helped in current crisis but manufacturers said no. That a cloud of volc...

Why Volcanoes Are Dangerous

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Ash Cloud Reminds Us That We Should All Be Afraid Of Volcanoes -- The Telegraph Eyjafjallajökull's giant cloud of ash is a nuisance, but...

Giant Sequoias Yield Longest Fire History From Tree Rings

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This cross-section of a giant sequoia tree shows some of the tree-rings and fire scars. The numbers indicate the year that a particular ring...

Is 3-D TV Dangerous?

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From Live Science: 3-D television looks awesome, but can it be hazardous to your health? That's what many are wondering now that electro...

Supercomputers Map Pathogens As They Emerge And Evolve

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A screenshot from a Supramap study of avian influenza, with red lines representing the spread of drug-resistant strains and the white lines ...

The Coming Tide of Global Climate Lawsuits

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From Wired Science: The Prunerov power station is the Czech Republic’s biggest polluter: Its Its 900-foot-high smokestack pushes a plume of ...

Study: Brain Exercises Don't Improve Cognition

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Brain-training tasks improve performance in the trained tasks alone, rather than improving cognitive performance overall. artpartner-images ...

Space Shuttle Discovery Lands (Video)

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Revealed: The Hapless Apple Engineer Who Lost Top-Secret 4G iPhone Prototype After A Beer-Fuelled Night Out

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Already a T-shirt marking Gray Powell's error is on sale From The Daily Mail: It has happened to most of us at some point: you arrive ho...

Climate Science Skepticism: 5 Controversial Claims

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From ABC News: Is Earth Really Warming? Are Humans Responsible? Why Climate Skeptics Doubt As Earth Day approaches, climate change is climbi...

Maxed Out: What's The Human Speed Limit?

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Not quite as fast as the speed of light (Image: Seiko Press Service / Getty) From New Scientist: Last year, Usain Bolt stunned athletics fan...

Report: Global Net Speeds Keep Bumping Up

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(Credit: Akamai) From CNET: The fastest are getting faster. Eight of the top 10 countries or regions in terms of Internet speed saw a boost ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Routine Lifting May Not Be As Bad For Your Back As Thought, Research Suggests

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Tapio Videman is a researcher in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. (Credit: Photo courtesy the University ...

Another Iceland Volcano Under Watch

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Visible (left) and infrared (right) images of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano, acquired April 17, 2010, from the Hyperion instrument ...

Maxed Out: How Long Can We Concentrate For?

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Surgeons have to concentrate for hours on end (Image: OJO Images / Rex Features) From New Scientist: It's a challenge that most of us ha...

Five Biggest Volcano Eruptions In Recent History

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This picture is of a June 12, 1991, eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines – one of the smaller eruptions that preceded the main erupti...