Sunday, January 2, 2011

Are We Becoming More Stupid? Human Brain Has Been 'Shrinking For The Last 20,000 Years'

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Old big head: A 3D image replica of a 28,000-year-old skull found in France shows it was 20 per cent larger than ours From The Daily Mail: I...
Saturday, November 6, 2010

Language And Toolmaking Evolved Together, Say Researchers

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Researchers say early humans were limited by brain power not manual dexterity when making stone age tools. Photograph: David Sillitoe/Guardi...
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Europe Simulates Total Cyber War

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From The BBC: Essential web services have come under simulated attack as European nations test their cyber defences. The first-ever cross-Eu...

Google Limits Facebook Access to Gmail Contacts

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From The Wall Street Journal: Google Inc. is launching a salvo against Facebook Inc., saying it will no longer allow the social network to g...
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Are Holograms The Next Step For 3D Tech?

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Holograms, once seen only in science-fiction movies, are swiftly becoming a reality. Newscom From Christian Science Monitor: 3D TV sets and ...

Atlantic Current Backward During Ice Age

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The Gulf Stream brings warm surface water northwards from the tropics to high latitudes, where it cools, sinks and flows southwards at depth...

In First Test Of Interstellar GPS, Team Uses Distant Pulsars To Determine Position In Space

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Pulsar Positioning It beats rolling down the window and asking for directions. NASA From Popular Science: Global Positioning Systems work f...

Cassini Camera Stops Shooting Snaps

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From Wired Science: NASA’s Cassini orbiter, the powerhouse producer of mind-blowing Saturn photos, unexpectedly put itself into “safe mode” ...

Developments In Optometry Can Be Traced Back To The 1st Century AD

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Photo: REX FEATURES From The Telegraph: The quest to correct and improve vision is one of man's oldest medical challenges. For as long ...

Spring Break-Ups: Graphic Of Facebook Updates Shows When People Are Most Likely To End A Relationship

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The Facebook graphic shows most people break up at Spring Break or Christmas From The Daily Mail: If your relationship is rocky and it’s com...

What Happened To That Superjumbo?

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Down to earth, after a bang (Image: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images) From New Scientist: Debris rained down on the island of Batam yesterday ...
Friday, November 5, 2010

7 Next-Gen Driving Technologies, Coming Soon To BMW

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BMW's next-gen tech could change cars—for better or worse. Here, an iPhone app locates a parked vehicle by GPS from up to 1600 meters aw...

Gravity Suit Mimics Earth's Pull For Astronauts

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Photo: The suit is made of a fabric with carefully tailored stretchiness From The BBC: A stretchy suit that mimics the effects of the Earth...

Earth-Like Planets Common In Outer Space

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The red dwarf star Gliese 581 is only 20 light years away from Earth, and a number of planets orbiting, including one in the middle of the s...

Alcohol More Harmful Than Heroin, Cocaine

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When the wider social effects were factored in, alcohol was deemed the most dangerous, followed by heroin and crack cocaine, according to a ...

LHC To Shift Gears This Month And Create Mini Big Bangs

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A Simulated Black Hole Event in the LHC's ATLAS Detector If this is what a black hole looks like, imagine a Big Bang. CERN/ATLAS From P...

‘Invisible’ Material Can Now Fool Your Eyes

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From The Danger Room/Wired: Don’t start picking out the pattern of your cloak, yet. But invisibility just became a whole lot more likely. Te...

Eye Implant Allows The Blind To See Again

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From The Telegraph: An eye implant which has returned partial sight to three blind patients has been developed by scientists. The device is ...

New York To Sydney In Just 2hrs 30mins: Nasa To Develop 'Hypersonic' Passenger Jets That Travel At Five Times The Speed Of Sound

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From The Daily Mail: NASA is planning to build hypersonic jets that will fly through the Earth’s atmosphere and slash flight times around th...

Daylight Saving Time 2010: Why And When It Ends

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Turning back the clock in Frieburg, Germany, late last month. Photograph by Patrick Seeger/dpa/Corbis From National Geographic: Why fall bac...