Saturday, February 5, 2011

Using Google Earth To Find Archaeological Secrets

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Google Earth Finds Saudi Arabia's Forbidden Archaeological Secrets -- The Telegraph An armchair archaeologist has identified nearly 2,00...

NASA Discovers Six-Planet Solar System

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Multi-planet systems are extremely rare, and none with more than three planets have ever been found, until now. Credit: NASA/Kepler mission/...

The Google - Apple Tablet Wars Continue

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Photo: Motorola's Xoom tablet will be the first built around the honeycomb release of Android Google Eyes Apple In Tablet War -- BBC Go...

Should The Super Bowl be Televised In 3D

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Should the Super Bowl be shot and broadcast in 3D? Why We're Glad The Super Bowl Isn't In 3D -- Popular Mechanics You may have notic...

Internet For Robots Lets Bots Share Instructions And Learn From One Another

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Robot to RoboEarth to Robot RoboEarth From Popular Science: Well, we’ve seen this movie before (literally speaking). A group of robotics eng...

Human Blood Vessels Can Now Be Grown In The Laboratory

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Human Blood Vessels Grown In The Laboratory -- The Telegraph Off-the-shelf blood vessels that could revolutionise heart surgery have been de...

Is There Life Out There?

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Hunting: Nasa's planet-hunting telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life Chances Of Finding Al...

Oldest Cemetery Discovered In The Middle East

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Graves from the Middle Epipalaeolithic cemetery of ‘Uyun al-Hammam. (Credit: Lisa A. Maher, Jay T. Stock, Sarah Finney, James J. N. Heywood,...

Expect More Monster Winter Storms With Climate Change

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This visible satellite image shows the low-pressure area stretching from the Colorado Rockies and Texas east to New England. The image shows...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Egyptian Mummy Mystery Thickens

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One of the heads from a mummy damaged during the break-in at Cairo's Egyptian Museum appears in the photo above. Click to enlarge this i...

Experts Fret Over Egypt's Treasures

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Visitors look at the 8-metres high sandstone statue of Ramses II (1279-1213 BC) at entrance to the Nubian Museum in the southern Egyptian ci...

Amazon Drought 'Severe' In 2010

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Amazon Drought 'Severe' In 2010, Raising Warming Fears -- BBC Last year's drought in the Amazon raises concerns about the region...

Super Bowl XLV In Dallas

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In the control room at Cowboys Stadium, the large screen monitors cell phone calls, not dropped balls The World’s Most Wired Stadium? Super ...

How Stuxnet Has Given Hackers A Blueprint For Sophisticated New Malware

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Epic Fail Malicious programs could blow up factories and sabotage power grids Jamie Sneddon What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Industrial Cyber-S...

Is The Cyberhug As Good As The Real Thing?

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Scientists Develop The 'Cyberhug' -- The Telegraph Scientists claim the average hug lasts for three seconds, but it has long been cl...

Oysters Are Disappearing

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Delicacy: But the oyster is disappearing from its natural habitat and is now 'functionally extinct' in many places due to over-explo...

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Is the apparent randomness of the scratch ticket just a facade, a mathematical lie? Photo: John Midgley Cracking The Scratch Lottery Code --...

The Landscape Of Mars Is Actively Changing

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Three images of the same location taken at different times show seasonal activity causing sand avalanches and ripple changes on a Martian du...

NASA: Mark Kelly Will Return To Space

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Astronaut Kelly listens to U.S. President Obama speak at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Feb. 3. Mr. Kelly is the husband of ...

World's Largest Known Bear Unearthed

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The largest land predator of its time, the South American giant short-faced bear (Arctotherium angustidens), in comparison to a person. Cred...