Saturday, March 31, 2012

Scanner Reveals Inner Workings Of How Our Brains Are Wired

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Curvature in this image of a whole human brain turns out to be folding of 2D sheets of parallel neuronal fibers that cross paths at right an...
Friday, March 30, 2012

China: No Coup Rumors Please .... Or You Go To Jail

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Hundreds of millions of Chinese people use social media websites, despite strict censorship. [ Reuters ] China Arrests Over Coup Rumours -- ...

Stunning Post-Apocalyptic Images Of Cities Around The Globe

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At World's End: Artists Reveal Stunning Post-Apocalyptic Images Of Cities Around The Globe -- Daily Mail From New York City to Beijing, ...

Cassini Spacecraft Captures Striking Images Of Three Saturn Moons

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The jets emanate from hot fissures known as "tiger stripes" at the south pole Cassini Spacecraft Captures Saturn Moon Geyser Image...

A History Of Breast Enlargements

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A Brief History Of Breast Enlargements -- BBC It is 50 years since the first breast enlargement using silicone implants. Today it rates as t...

Death Of A Data Haven

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Sealand in all its rusty splendor Death Of A Data Haven: Cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, And The World's Smallest Nation -- Ars Technica A few w...

Calculating Your Odds To Win The $500 Million Jackpot

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$500 Million Jackpot: Calculating Your Odds -- Forbes The Mega Millions lottery drawing Friday night will deliver a jackpot estimated at $54...

Did Domestication Of Cattle Start 10,500 Years Ago?

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This cow's ancestors can be traced back to a small number of wild aurochs, the ancestors of all domestic cattle. The find has implicatio...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Bee Collapse Linked To Controversial Pesticide

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Image: Jack Wolf /Flickr Controversial Pesticide Linked To Bee Collapse -- Wired Science A controversial type of pesticide linked to declini...

With Google Earth No One Can Hide The Slums

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With Google Earth, India Can No Longer Hide Its Shantytowns And "Slumdogs" -- Time/AP SANGLI — Before Google Earth existed, the sl...

Faster Than 50 Million Laptops

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The Cray Jaguar supercomputer can perform more than a million billion operations per second. It takes up more than 5,000 square feet at Oak ...

A Billion Stars In One Picture

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Earth sits just in the galactic plane which appears as a very dense but very long strip of stars arcing across the sky. The galactic centre ...

Giant Solar Tornado Caught In NASA Video

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Monster Solar Tornadoes Discovered -- MSNBC/Discovery News Tempests measure width of several Earths and swirl at speeds of up to 190,000 mil...

Half Of All U.S. Households Own At Least One Apple Product

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The overall ownership rate is 1.6 Apple products per American household, according to a new survey. Half Of U.S. Households Own At Least One...

Fossilised Marks Of Raindrops Reveal Ancient Atmosphere

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Fossilised imprints left by raindrops in South Africa 2.7 billion years ago. Credit: Wlady Altermann/University of Pretoria Fossil Raindrops...

New Layer of Genetic Information Found

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The structure of a ribosome (Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - San Francisco) New Layer of Genetic Information Helps Dete...

Energy Bursts May Be Key to Martial Arts Skills

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A new method of studying the energy uses of martial artists could improve training. CREDIT: Sergey Lukyanov, Shutterstock Ninja Science: Ene...
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Transparent Memory Chips

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Video streaming by Ustream Transparent Memory Chips – The Next Step in Memory Storage -- Sci-Tech Daily As technology moves forward, thi...

Do Dolphins 'Resort To Rape'?

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Two bottlenose dolphins breaching in evening light, Moray Firth, Inverness-shire, Scotland. The study found dolphins lived in an "open ...

Future Wars Will Be Fought By Hackers

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Clarke has seen the future of war and says it will be fought by hackers. Khue Bui Richard Clarke On Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack -- Smi...