Saturday, January 29, 2011

Will The U.S. Get An "Internet Kill Switch"?

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After Egypt, Will U.S. Get 'Internet Kill Switch'? -- PC Magazine With reports of Egypt's government completing shutting down th...

Hidden Chambers In The Great Pyramids

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One theory suggests that the Great Pyramid had been built inside-out using an internal spiral ramp, as opposed to an external ramp as had lo...

The Future Of Wine

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Grapes on the Vine in Mendocino, Calif. Hot Ash via Wikimedia The Future Of Wine: We Need New Breeds Of Grape -- Popular Science When news b...
Friday, January 28, 2011

When Did The Dinosaurs Exactly Die Off?

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U of A researcher Larry Heaman with the actual fossil that now throws into questions the KT paradigm. He is sitting in front the laser ablat...

Drinking In Ancient Greece

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Photo: This terra cotta cup was a "designer knock off" with a pattern meant to emulate silver work. This type of cup appeared as ...

Lack Of Diversity In Grapes Raises Concerns

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(Click on Image To Enlarge) Lack Of Sex Among Grapes Tangles A Family Vine -- New York Times For the last 8,000 years, the wine grape has ha...

Another Look At Thunderstorms

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Here the terrestrial gamma ray flash (pink) is 1.98 milliseconds old, and its electron(yellow) /positron(green) beam is reaching altitudes w...

Ten Endangered-Species Battles

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10 Critical Endangered-Species Battles -- Wired Science In theory, decisions about flora and fauna habitat are purely scientific. In practic...

A Cybermap Of The Scientific World

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(Image: Computed by Olivier H. Beauchesne @ Science-Metrix, inc. Data from Scopus, using books, trade journals and peer-reviewed journals) ...

Food Inflation Expected To Reach 50% For Some Countries This Year

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The world is facing a commodities crisis that could leave millions unable to afford the rising costs of food as population levels soar Food ...

Amazon Sells More E-Books Than Paperbacks

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Amazon.com Touts More E-Book Sales Than Paperbacks -- Computer World Third-gen Kindle sold millions in fourth quarter, CEO Bezos says. Compu...

Early Humans Left the Trees 4.2 Million Years Ago

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A reconstructed head of Australopithecus afarensis for an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. John Gurche/S...

Remembering Space Shuttle Challenger

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From CBS News: (CBS) Friday marks 25 years since the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after takeoff. "Early Show" co-...

Marines In Afghanistan Are Getting Use To Using Solar Panels

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Marines With ExFOB Marines and sailors of India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment pose with their Afghan national army counterpart...

Japan On Alert After Volcano's Biggest Eruption In 50 Years

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Force of nature: Lightning strikes as Shinmoedake erupts, scattering ash and rocks across a wide swathe of southern Japan Lightning And Fire...

Type 1 Diabetes Cure?

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Photo: Dr. Roger Unger (left) and Dr. Young Lee found in an animal study that blocking the hormone glucagon might eliminate the symptoms of...
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Slithering Robots Learn To Stand On Their Own Four Feet

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A new robot learns to slither, then crawl, before it can walk. Credit: Joshua Bongard From Live Science: Robots that evolved from crawling b...

Wikileaks Now Has A Competitor

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The website for WiiLeaks-competitor OpenLeaks.org, which launched Thursday after information about the site was itself leaked. OpenLeaks Wik...

Climate In The Past Had An Impact On Europe's Rise And Fall

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Tree rings can show environmental changes throughout history, which can be linked to major ups and downs in European history, according to n...

Man's Migration Out Of Africa More Complicated Than Thought

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Ancient Tools May Mark Earlier Path Out Of Africa -- Wired Science The bodies are still missing, but a prehistoric toolkit discovered in the...