Saturday, October 9, 2010

Exoskeleton Helps the Paralysed Walk Again

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From New Scientist: Amanda Boxtel, a wheelchair user, is about to stand up. A skiing accident 18 years ago partially severed her spinal cord...
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Friday, October 8, 2010

'Living Dinosaurs' in Space: Galaxies in Today's Universe Thought to Have Existed Only In Distant Past

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A simulation of a star forming galaxy similar to those observed. Cold gas (red) flowing onto a spiral galaxy feeds star formation. (Credit: ...
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What Farming Ants Can Teach Us About Bioenergy

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A leaf-cutter ant foraging trail. These ants can form foraging trails in the rainforest that are hundreds of meters long containing thousand...

'Mini-Pompeii' Found In Norway

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From Discovery News: Norwegian archaeologists have unearthed a Neolithic “mini Pompeii” at a campsite near the North Sea, they announced thi...

Giant Moon Collision 'May Have Formed Saturn's Rings'

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Saturn's rings are largely made up of icy chunks From The BBC: Saturn's rings may have formed when a large moon with an icy mantle a...

TechBytes: Amazon Apps Store

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From ABC News: Amazon is reportedly getting ready to open a new online application store. The Wall Street Journal reports that the apps woul...

Could An 'Elixir Of Life' Really Increase Your Lifespan?

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From New Scientist: A chemical elixir can add 10 years to your life! According to the media, anyway. How much of the claim that an amino aci...

Video: Apollo 11 Launch At 500 Frames Per Second

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Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo .

Volcanoes Wiped out Neanderthals, New Study Suggests

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The Semeru volcano in Indonesia. New research suggests that climate change following massive volcanic eruptions drove Neanderthals to extinc...

Comet May Not Have Rocked Stone Age World

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From Live Science: While most scientists agree that a large object from space likely crashed into Earth and led to the eventual demise of th...

Mars Probe To Solve 'Lost Atmosphere' Mystery

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The disappearance of the ancient magnetic field may have triggered the loss of the Martian atmosphere, and NASA have just announced a missio...

The End Of The World As We Know It?

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The universe began in a Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago and has been expanding at an ever accelerating rate ever since. iStockPhoto Fr...

Soyuz Launches To Space Station

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From The BBC: A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut has left Earth bound for the International Space Sta...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Statue of King Tut's Grandfather Unearthed in Luxor

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From Discover News: Part of an ancient statue of King Amenhotep III, believed to be the grandfather of King Tutankhamun, has been unearthed,...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Powerful Supercomputer Peers Into The Origin Of Life

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New research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory explains how a ribonucleic acid enzyme, or ribozyme (pictured), uses magnesium ions (seen as s...

Grain of Hope: Researchers Seek A Super-Rice

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From Live Science: Food scientists are furiously racing to come up with new rice varieties and growing techniques to meet the rising demand ...

Japan's Murata Girl Bot Unicycles On A Curved Balance Beam (Video)

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From Popular Science: Following in the footsteps of many robots we’ve seen who perform awesome but random feats, Japanese electronics compan...

Asteroid Lutetia Has Thick Blanket Of Debris

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Photo: About 100km wide, Lutetia is the biggest asteroid yet visited by a spacecraft From The BBC: Lutetia, the giant asteroid visited by E...

New Chip Captures Hard-to-Find Tumor Cells

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Image: Capturing cancer cells: A new microfluidics chip designed to isolate tumor cells from blood captures clusters of cancer cells, shown...

RIM's PlayBook vs. Tomorrow's iPad

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RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is seen as a natural for the enterprise. From Computer World: The PlayBook might not easily displace th...