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 News on Science / Technology continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. Copyright: Copyright 2008, Topix Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:31:27 +0200 Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:18:04 +0200 Radioactive particles spewed from a pipe at a French nuclear reactor on Wednesday, slightly contaminating 100 employees, a spokeswoman for the national electric company said.
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:46:34 +0200 It's been the subject of much argument and discussion: whether or not cell phone use - in particular, the electromagnetic radiation put out by cell phones - can contribute to cancer. Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, has decided that whikle the evidence is not conclusive, there is enough of it, and in that vein, issued a memo today to the 3,000-member faculty and staff at UPCI.
attached file: type: image/jpeg size: 5.17 KB here Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:26:34 +0200 Security researcher Aviv Raff said on Wednesday that the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are prone to URL spoofing and could allow phishing attacks against iPhone users. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:23:58 +0200 While Google has bought plenty of small startups, almost none of those deals have amounted to very much. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:20:35 +0200 According to a report out Wednesday, antivirus vendor Sophos says it detects one Web page with malicious content every 5 seconds--a trend that is up 300 percent from 2007. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:23:33 +0200 Earlier in February I wrote about an obscure California law, the Solar Shade Control Act (.PDF), passed in 1979 after the Oil Crisis. The law essentially made criminals out of a pair of Sunnyvale residents, whose eight redwood trees cast shade on a neighbor's solar panels.
attached file: type: image/jpeg size: 20.19 KB here Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:50:48 +0200 Use the principles of mathematics to take the guesswork out of life: Dating, Romance and Relationships, Career, Finance, Health, and more. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:49:32 +0200 The results of a new study suggest that past climate changes and sea level fluctuations may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon region of South America.
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:47:15 +0200 Kidney stones are crystals that form in the kidneys or ureters, the small tubes that drain the urine from the kidney to the bladder. Men are four times more likely to develop kidney stones than women, and their risk rises dramatically once they reach their 40s.
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:46:59 +0200 Although her birth opened the door for millions of infertile couples worldwide to give birth to IVF or test tube babies, Brown has no big plans to celebrate the landmark date. attached file: type: image/jpeg size: 2.52 KB here Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:13:33 +0200 The European Union proposed a total trade and import ban Wednesday on products from seals killed in a cruel way despite warnings it could hurt the world's largest annual seal hunt in Canada.
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:10:41 +0200 Solid-State drives (SSDs) have had a lot of coverage lately, mostly negative. Battery life, performance, reliability, those sorts of things have been under close scrutiny of late. Monday, in Sandisk's earnings call, Sandisk placed the blame for at least one of those issues squarely on the shoulders of everyone's favorite whipping boy: Windows Vista.
attached file: type: image/jpeg size: 4.13 KB here Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:24:52 +0200 The Micro, weighing just 3 grams and measuring 10 centimeters (wingtip to wingtip) has a minuscule battery weighing just 1 gram, can fly for approximately three minutes and has a maximum speed of 5 meters per second.
attached file: type: image/jpeg size: 9.47 KB here Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:23:17 +0200 An estimated 19 percent of total energy used in the USA is taken up in the production and supply of food. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:40 +0200 Social-news site Digg.com , a perpetual target of acquisition rumors, is in "final negotiations" to sell itself to Google for $200 million, according to a TechCrunch report Tuesday that cited multiple sources. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:05:18 +0200 Here you go, the solution to all those "I want to leave a voicemail but don't want to risk them answering the phone situations." You know, you might want to break up with someone, that sort of thing. Or maybe you just don't want to be stuck on the phone talking to someone who won't stop gabbing (I can think of a few people I know) - but really need to tell them something. slydial thinks it's the answer to all your problems.
attached file: type: image/jpeg size: 2.05 KB here Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:00:55 +0200 Silicon Valley legend Andy Grove said Tuesday that the nation should convert millions of gas-guzzling pickups and SUVs into plug-in hybrids to dramatically cut our use of foreign oil. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:59:02 +0200 Researchers from four leading cancer centers have confirmed that an analysis involving a panel of genes can be used to predict which lung cancer patients will have the worst survival. The finding could one day lead to a test that would help determine who needs more aggressive treatment.
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:59:26 +0200 Monday at an FCC hearing held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh entitled "Broadband and the Digital Future," AT&T Senior Federal Regulatory Vice President Robert Quinn spoke and outlined a plan for instituting tiered service, starting in October. But wait, it's not what you're thinking!
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