Chinese scientists tell pigeon to fly by remote control

Chinese scientists tell pigeon to fly by remote control - International Herald Tribune

What'll they think of next? ..... ;-) .... Wonder if SuperChicken knows about this? ...... :)

Early Europeans unable to stomach milk

Early Europeans unable to stomach milk

MILK ... It does a body good ...... OK ... maybe not a Neolithic body .......

Nano-coating makes for an awesome splash

Nano-coating makes for an awesome splash - tech - 25 February 2007 - New Scientist Tech

I'm surprised that this has such a macroscopic effect, from atomic forces ... hmm ....

Down's syndrome brains aided by Ginkgo tree extract

Down's syndrome brains aided by Ginkgo tree extract - health - 25 February 2007 - New Scientist

This is good news ....

Pulsars may shed light on mysterious dark matter

Pulsars may shed light on mysterious dark matter - space - 26 February 2007 - New Scientist Space

Clever idea for detecting Dark Matter ...

Dark matter may be the death of Milky Way

Dark matter may be the death of Milky Way - space - 25 February 2007 - New Scientist Space

You have to THINK Positive folks! .... ;-)

Erupting volcano crackles with low-energy lightning

Erupting volcano crackles with low-energy lightning - earth - 23 February 2007 - New Scientist Environment

Well that's different .... I'll have to check my volcano, and see if I can see this happening ... :)

$10 wok keeps TV station on air

$10 wok keeps TV station on air - 22 Feb 2007 - National News - New Zealand Herald

I did a lot of Googling for WokFi, in looking into this article ....

..... I wonder if WokFi is related to Wang-Chung? ....... ;-) ...

...... I guess we find out TONIGHT!! ..... Everybody! ... :)

Samsung accelerates graphics memory to 2000 MHz

Samsung accelerates graphics memory to 2000 MHz TG Daily

A 66% increase in clock speed ...... ALWAYS a Good Thing .... :)

Hitachi Shows Off Powder-Sized Smart Tag

Wired: AP Technology and Business News from the Outside World on Wired.com

No plans to start commercial production of the chips ..... O-K ......

Radiation warning gains skull and crossbones

Radiation warning gains skull and crossbones - fundamentals - 23 February 2007 - New Scientist

Oh! ... They should have done this a LONG time ago ... if just for video games, if nothing else .... ;-)

Deadly stellar dance explains supernova shape

Deadly stellar dance explains supernova shape - space - 22 February 2007 - New Scientist Space

I had seen this picture before .. and had always assumed that it was the result of the supernova explosion .. I didn't even consider that a merger had occured ....

Modular robot's wriggles show greater flexibility

Modular robot's wriggles show greater flexibility - tech - 22 February 2007 - New Scientist Tech

These Superbots are undoubtably going to start getting smaller, and doubling in number ... along the lines of Moore's Law ...

More HERE and HERE and HERE.

Ancient Stone Weapons Not Ancient Enough to Be Used by First Americans

Ancient Stone Weapons Not Ancient Enough to Be Used by First Americans: Scientific American

Does an excellent job explaining that Clovis points are a technology, and NOT indicative of a particular people. They nailed down the roughly 200 - 350 year range, in which the Clovis points, ... as a technology ... swept throughout the entire continent ... among people that had already been here a LONG TIME .....

Islamic "quasicrystals" predate Penrose tiles

Islamic "quasicrystals" predate Penrose tiles (February 2007) - News - PhysicsWeb

I'll always remember an article from many, many years ago ... detailing these tiles that Roger Penrose invented ... especially the pictures of the ... two lizard tiles, that could interlock to infinity, and never create a repeating pattern .....

More HERE.

Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'

I find it equally astounding, that it is only the females that exhibit this form of behavior .....

While you slumber, your brain puts the world in order

While you slumber, your brain puts the world in order - being-human - 22 February 2007 - New Scientist

Hmmm ... I'll have to sleep on this ..... :)

Scotland to float 'world's biggest' wave farm

Scotland to float 'world's biggest' wave farm The Register

The K-Man sent me this one ....... ;-)

Canon EOS-1D Mark III, 10 mp, 10 fps

Canon EOS-1D Mark III, 10 mp, 10 fps: Digital Photography Review

10 Megapixel ... 10 frames per second ..... Sweet! .... :) .. Price ... Not So Sweet ....

NASA's Spitzer First to Crack Open Light of Faraway Worlds

NASA's Spitzer First to Crack Open Light of Faraway Worlds : JPL.NASA.GOV: News Releases

Personally ... I think they are actually using the Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth's (born April 9, 2838)Smell-O-Scope to sniff these exoplanet's atmospheres .......... ;-)

Fastest spinning star may have exotic heart

Fastest spinning star may have exotic heart - space - 20 February 2007 - New Scientist Space

Deep down ... don't we ALL have exotic hearts ....... ;-)

World's most premature baby set to leave hospital

World's most premature baby set to leave hospital - sex - 20 February 2007 - New Scientist

OMG!! .....She lied in order to get the hospital's help with the most premature baby on record to survive. Ten ounces only.... 21 weeks, 6 days in the womb .... full-term is 37-40 weeks.

More OMG!! ..... Her feet are about the size of the tip of the nurse's finger ....

Sony's 1/1.8-inch high-speed CMOS sensor outputs 60fps

Sony's 1/1.8-inch high-speed CMOS sensor outputs 60fps - Engadget

Can't wait to see the product specs for devices incorporating this chip ....

Genetics reveal 15 new N.American bird species

Genetics reveal 15 new N.American bird species Tech&Sci Science Reuters.com

You can't judge a book by it's cover ... and I guess the same can now be said for birds, bats, etc. ....

Start-up demos quantum computer

Start-up demos quantum computer CNET News.com

Information about how you too, can rent a quantum computer, in the not-too distant future ..... ;-)

Lab-grown replacement teeth fill the gap

Lab-grown replacement teeth fill the gap - health - 18 February 2007 - New Scientist

Growing replacement teeth would be great ..... Actually, I would be even more interested in this scientist using his collagen gel capsules, to grow small hair follicles, for implantation .... :)

Robot driven cars 'on road by 2030'

Robot driven cars 'on road by 2030' The Australian

Wonder if this will give rise to robot-road-rage? ..... ;-)

... Actually ---- I would think, just the opposite would be true ....

Mystery of Galaxies Full of Dark Matter Solved

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Mystery of Galaxies Full of Dark Matter Solved -- Small galaxies' visible gas may have been scoured away by million-degree coronas of nearby big galaxies

The Universe is truly a strange place ....

Largest Ever Autism Study Identifies Two Genetic Culprits

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Largest Ever Autism Study Identifies Two Genetic Culprits

These DNA microarray chips are doing a wonderful job at helping scientists home-in on what is truly going on, in many disorders ...

Asteroid threat demands response, experts warn

Asteroid threat demands response, experts warn - space - 17 February 2007 - New Scientist Space

I find it interesting, that the gravity-tractor needed to divert Apophis, would only weigh somewhere around 2200 lbs. ......

Leg spines make robots better scramblers

Leg spines make robots better scramblers - tech - 16 February 2007 - New Scientist Tech

A better method for robots to scramble over irregular surfaces ....

The Universe's Invisible Hand

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: The Universe's Invisible Hand

Very thorough article about Dark Energy and Dark Matter, and how it affects galaxy formation.

Artificial retina implant holds promise for blind

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Artificial retina implant holds promise for blind

Better than expected results, may hold hope for those with macular degeneration ....

Gravitational wave observatories to join forces

Gravitational wave observatories to join forces - space - 15 February 2007 - New Scientist Space

Fantastic news. With the combining of the data from around the world ... when gravity waves are detected ... their source can be triangulated upon, and determined three-dimensionally.

Antarctic subglacial lakes plumbed by satellite

Antarctic subglacial lakes plumbed by satellite

Scientists are going to have to recalculate the rise in world-wide ocean levels, because of this new discovery of water entering the ocean, from beneath the Antarctic ice sheet ....

More HERE.

Nobel Intent: HiRISE spies signs of water in Mars's past

Nobel Intent: HiRISE spies signs of water in Mars's past

Looks like there are a lot of cracks and fissures beneath the surface of Mars. Massive caverns and pooled, frozen or liquid water too, perhaps? .....

First peck of peppers picked 6,100 years ago: study

First peck of peppers picked 6,100 years ago: study Science&Health Science Reuters.co.uk

Wow! .. Chili peppers have been spicing up our lives for a long time. I can't stand them very hot, but my parents like the habaneros -- among the hottest, if not THE hottest peppers. I do like chili however, and mild peppers ... :)

More HERE.

'Amphibian Ark' Planned to Save Frogs

'Amphibian Ark' Planned to Save Frogs

A world-wide fungus appears to be wiping out frogs on a scale similar to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Already 170 species are extinct, within the last ten years, and 1900 species are at risk.

Article repeat HERE.

MIT student invents device for wall crawling

MIT student invents device for wall crawling Tech News on ZDNet

Beam .. err ........ Boom me up ... Spiderman! ...... ;-)

More HERE.

Scientists Dubious of Quantum Claims

Scientists Dubious of Quantum Claims

A lot of these articles had "dubious" in their titles .... Sounds like the D-Wave folks aren't 100% sure they have succeded themselves ....

IBM Reveals Breakthrough eDRAM Memory Technology

IBM Reveals Breakthrough eDRAM Memory Technology

Better ... Bigger .. Faster Memory .... ALWAYS a Big Plus! .....

Galactic bullies create universe's darkest galaxies

Galactic bullies create universe's darkest galaxies - space - 14 February 2007 - New Scientist Space

Now we have lots of dwarf galaxies circling the Milky Way ... chock-full of Dark Matter .. and barely visible .... Most Intriguing ... :)

Giant luminescent squid captured on film for first time

Giant luminescent squid captured on film for first time

Who Knew It Glew??? ... err ..... Glowed ..... ;-)

More HERE.

A new brand on the block: General Imaging

A new brand on the block: General Imaging: Digital Photography Review

GE to start making Digital Cameras ... starting with 7 megapixels and going to 12 megapixels.

More HERE.

Company site HERE.

Virus in the frame for prion diseases

Virus in the frame for prion diseases - health - 12 February 2007 - New Scientist

New take on the matter ....

DNS capacity to receive major upgrade by 2010

DNS capacity to receive major upgrade by 2010

And not a minute too soon .... ;-)

Honeybee industry stung by lethal mystery disease

Honeybee industry stung by lethal mystery disease

Colony collapse disorder or CCD, is a nation-wide epidemic in honeybees. Our scientists haven't been able to pin it down to a single cause, and it might even be the source that killed off 40-60 percent of the nation's honeybees, two years ago. At the time, the cause was attributed to the parasitic varroa mite, that clogs the trachea of the bees, causing them to choke to death.

More HERE.

Would You Seek Help if it Meant You'd Never Fly on the Shuttle?

Would You Seek Help if it Meant You'd Never Fly on the Shuttle?: BLOG: SciAm Observations

Truthful and thought-provoking ....

Technically speaking: Taking print into the fourth dimension may not require a Tardis or Doctor Who.

PrintWeek

Hard not to like a guy, who brings Dr. Who and the Tardis, into a talk about 3rd and 4th-dimensional printing ..... :)

Revealing secret intentions in the brain

Revealing secret intentions in the brain

OK .. WHAT am I thinking Right Now? ............ ;-)

Quantum Computer To Launch Next Week

Slashdot | Quantum Computer To Launch Next Week

A 16-qubit quantum computer ... capable of 64,000 simultaneous calculations ...
..... a 1,000 qubit machine in 2008.

If this pans-out, this will be Phenomenal ....

The pretty pictures HERE.
More HERE.

Miniature Helicopter Packs Bug-Like Brain

LiveScience.com - Miniature Helicopter Packs Bug-Like Brain

Flies have no need for altimeters ... the real explaination is really cool ....

Quantum Quirk: Stopped Laser Pulse Reappears a Short Distance Away

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Quantum Quirk: Stopped Laser Pulse Reappears a Short Distance Away -- Supercold atoms learn how to play catch with light

Can You See Me ------- Now? ......... :)

More HERE.

New Mollusk Species Found in Philippines

LiveScience.com - New Mollusk Species Found in Philippines

Nice Find ...

Physicists achieve all-optical buffering of images

Physicists achieve all-optical buffering of images

Science marches on ....

Action video games sharpen vision 20 percent

Action video games sharpen vision 20 percent

It's always good to "improve your bottom line" ............ :)

Human skin harbors completely unknown bacteria

Human skin harbors completely unknown bacteria

I give them credit, for making the intellectual leap, that not all bacteria will grow well in standard growth medium, in petri dishes, and for coming up with a novel method to work around this problem.

How long is a split-second? It's all relative

How long is a split-second? It's all relative - being-human - 01 February 2007 - New Scientist

One Thousand M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I ... Two Thousand ..... ;-)

Physicists find way to 'see' extra dimensions

Physicists find way to 'see' extra dimensions

Scientists just keep that "New Stuff" coming ....... ;-)

Ocean Planets on the Brink of Detection

Ocean Planets on the Brink of Detection

Detect Away!! ............

Cassini images mammoth cloud engulfing Titan’s North Pole

Cassini images mammoth cloud engulfing Titan’s North Pole

Most Interesting .... Wonder if this makes things difficult for Titan's Santa Claus? ... :)

China's Space-Weapon Test Could Endanger Astronauts and Satellites

ABC News: China's Space-Weapon Test Could Endanger Astronauts and Satellites

China bears watching ........

A Prosthetic Arm That Acts Like a Real One

Technology Review: A Prosthetic Arm That Acts Like a Real One

I find it astounding, that the rerouted sensory nerves that were placed in a patch of skin, on her chest, allow her to feel the sensation of someone touching her hand, when part of the patch is touched. Beyond that, she moves the artificial arm by just thinking about it....

More HERE.

"Hobbit" Resting Site Reopened--and Newly Expanded

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: "Hobbit" Resting Site Reopened--and Newly Expanded -- Move comes just as researchers revive the debate over the Hobbit's humanity

The discovery of a new, larger chamber sounds exciting ....