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The Greatest Inventions Nikola Tesla Never Created

2009-02-03T00:33:00.001+01:00

Inventor Nikola Tesla invented the radio, experimented with wireless electricity, and designed a death ray. In science fiction, his work goes even further. We list Tesla's greatest fictional inventions and the facts behind the fiction.

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Will Robots With Advanced Group Intelligence Evolve?

2009-02-03T00:31:00.001+01:00

Researchers at the University of York have investigated large swarms of up to 10,000 miniature robots which can work together to form a single, artificial life form. The multi-robot approach to artificial intelligence is a relatively new one, and has developed from studies of the swarm behavior of social insects such as ants.

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Croplands May Wither as Global Warming Worsens

2009-02-03T00:30:00.001+01:00

Climate models predict that the hottest seasons on record will become the norm by the end of the century--an outcome that bodes ill for feeding the world

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U.N. Says 'No,' Climate Hackers Say, 'Yes We Can'

2009-02-03T00:29:00.003+01:00

A major Indian-German geoengineering expedition set sail this week for the Scotia Sea, flouting a U.N. ban on ocean iron fertilization experiments in hopes of garnering data about whether the process actually does take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and sequester it in the deep ocean, an intriguing technique that may help reverse global warmi

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Smarter Men Have More Sperm

2009-02-03T00:29:00.001+01:00

Women tend to like smart men because they're usually more successful and better providers. But here's another reason: Their sperm is better, a new study says. The smarter the men were, the more sperm they produced and the better their wee ones swam — and it didn't matter how old the men were or whether they smoked, drank or were obese.

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Ants Smell Cheaters and Assault Them, Study Finds

2009-02-03T00:28:00.003+01:00

If a worker ant attempts to reproduce in the presence of the queen, the worker inadvertently produces a chemical that causes her sisters to attack.

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Differences between sexes 'may be determined after birth'

2009-02-03T00:28:00.001+01:00

Some biological differences between male and female brains may be determined after birth, research suggests.

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Finger scanning to be lunch card of the future?

2009-02-03T00:27:00.001+01:00

Fischer said NutriKids (aka Big Brother) would offer features parents had been requesting for years. One is the ability to see what students are ordering for meals, and another is a faster and easier payment method. Each students was asked to press his or her right index finger on the optical reader, which scanned the print. Each student scanned...

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Nature's Great Piece of Art/Geometry Lesson: The Snowflake

2009-02-03T00:26:00.003+01:00

When physicist Kenneth Libbrecht looks out over a snowy landscape, he doesn't see a peaceful scene, he sees a laboratory. His microscopic photos show the intricate variety of snow crystals, and reveal the rigorous laws of nature that shape them.

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Self-Replicating Chemicals Evolve Into Life-Like Ecosystem

2009-02-03T00:26:00.001+01:00

Chemists have created a group of synthetic enzymes that self-replicate, compete, and evolve like a natural ecosystem -- just minus the life (as we know it).

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Space Is Closer Than You Think

2009-02-03T00:25:00.005+01:00

The border between Earth's atmosphere and outer space is closer to the ground than scientists once thought.

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Learning More About Levitation

2009-02-03T00:25:00.003+01:00

The ability to levitate objects is not an entirely new thing in physics. Lower the temperature of certain metals and ceramics far enough (-459 degrees F is a good number to shoot for) and they carry electromagnetic charges far more efficiently and for a far longer time than they otherwise would.

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Garage Invention Could Turn Restaurants into Power Plants

2009-02-03T00:25:00.001+01:00

A new garage-engineered generator burns the waste oil from restaurants' deep fryers to generate electricity and hot water. Put 80 gallons of grease into the Vegawatt and its creators promise that it will generate about five kilowatts of power.

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Translucent Concrete: 30% Lighter, Lets 80% of Light Through

2009-02-03T00:24:00.001+01:00

And it's pink!

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Milky Way and Andromeda will collide sooner than expected

2009-02-03T00:23:00.001+01:00

The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course and will hit one another earlier than scientists had previously predicted.

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Scientists Discover Why People Better With Faces Than Names

2009-02-03T00:22:00.003+01:00

The reason why some people are better with faces than names has been identified by scientists and it appears to be due to their higher levels of a special "socialising" hormone called Oxytocin.

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Amazing solar-powered fridge invented by British student

2009-02-03T00:22:00.001+01:00

It's the kind of brilliant yet simple invention that would have the tycoons of the Dragon's Den salivating with excitement.

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860 Types of Sand from Around the World: Interactive Graphic

2009-02-03T00:21:00.007+01:00

Rob Holman collects sand. A coastal oceanographer from Oregon State University, Holman has collected almost a thousand samples. They come from his travels and from geologists and amateurs all over the world...

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Motorola Renew is World’s First Carbon Neutral Mobile Phone

2009-02-03T00:21:00.005+01:00

Motorola has announced plans to launch the world’s first completely carbon neutral mobile phone, at CES 2009 in Las Vegas. The shell of the W233 Renew is made entirely of recycled water bottles, and will be available via T-Mobile within the next three months.

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Single Strike... [PIC]

2009-02-03T00:21:00.003+01:00

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Inside the mind of an autistic savant

2009-02-03T00:21:00.001+01:00

Autistic savant Daniel Tammet shot to fame when he set a European record for the number of digits of pi he recited from memory (22,514). For afters, he learned Icelandic in a week. But unlike many savants, he's able to tell us how he does it. We could all unleash extraordinary mental abilities by getting inside the savant mind.

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Love spray being developed by scientists

2009-02-03T00:20:00.003+01:00

Love really could be a drug, say scientists, who believe that one day the feelings may be induced by popping a pill or smelling perfume.

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Stem Cells Undo Birth Defects

2009-02-03T00:20:00.001+01:00

By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy.

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A device that mimics one of nature's key transport machines.

2009-02-03T00:19:00.001+01:00

To help protect its genes, a cell is highly selective about what it allows to move in and out of its nucleus. Yet that choosiness is regulated by just a thin barrier, perforated with tiny transport machines called nuclear pore complexes: protein-coated holes surrounded by flimsy, unfolded protein strands.

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Strange,Weird And Mysterious Sounds That Come From The Earth

2009-02-03T00:18:00.003+01:00

The earth is full of sounds ... Here is a list of weird “sonic mysteries” that come from our Earth.(includes some audio)

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Is It Possible For DNA To Have Telepathic Properties?

2009-02-03T00:18:00.001+01:00

Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA.

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Faster than the Speed of Light? A New Theory Says, "Yes"

2009-02-03T00:17:00.001+01:00

Magueijo, a 40-year old native of Portugal, puts forth the heretical idea that in the very early days of the universe light traveled faster—an idea that if proven could dethrone Einstein and forever change our understanding of the universe.

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Dead People Will Provide Heat to Crematorium Facilities

2009-02-03T00:16:00.003+01:00

If you’re dead and worried about the carbon emissions created from your cremation, relax. The Swedish town of Halmstad has a solution. After an environmental review showed that Halmstad’s crematorium was pumping too much smoke into the air, the facility’s director decided to re-use heat from the cremations to warm up the crematorium’s buildings.

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Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008

2009-02-03T00:16:00.001+01:00

Scientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008. After decades of work, researchers made rat stem cells, built the first memristor, and watched a language evolve like an organism. But none of those accomplishments impressed us as much as the breakthroughs on this list. From stem cell therapy to finding ice on Mars.

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Habitable Exoplanets Could be Common in Our Galaxy

2009-02-03T00:09:00.001+01:00

By observing the remains of smashed up asteroids around dead stars, astronomers were able to deduce their chemical composition. They found that the dust of many chewed-up asteroids resembles the materials inside Earth and the other small, rocky inner planets of our solar system.

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Inventor: Geo-Engineer a Worldwide Refrigerator Using Oceans

2009-02-03T00:02:00.001+01:00

Bailing out the entire human race might turn out to be cheaper than bailing out Wall Street: Spray gigatons of seawater into the air, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, and let Mother Nature do the rest, suggests inventor Ron Acer in a patent petition for “a colossal refrigeration system with a 100,000-fold performance multiplier.”

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Architectural Wind: A Cleaner Way to Keep the City Running

2009-02-03T00:01:00.003+01:00

A new building with affordable rents in the Bronx will be powered partly by 10 wind turbines, which should cut its utility bills for common areas in half.

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Scientists Unlock Secrets Of Australia's Giant 30kg Koalas

2009-02-03T00:01:00.001+01:00

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, giant versions of Australia's unique wildlife stalked the continent. There were kangaroos up to 3m tall and enormous wallabies, wombats and echidnas. There were also koalas: larger and weightier than the creatures sometimes seen today in eucalyptus trees.

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Quite Possibly the Best Panoramic Shot of the Milky Way

2009-02-02T23:59:00.001+01:00

New backgrounds in 3...2..

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60 Minutes: Mind Reading No Longer Science Fiction

2009-02-02T23:56:00.003+01:00

Neuroscience has learned much about the brain's activity and its link to certain thoughts. As Lesley Stahl reports, it may now be possible, on a basic level, to read a person's mind.

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Lead for car batteries poisons an African town

2009-02-02T23:56:00.001+01:00

First, it took the animals. Goats fell silent and refused to stand up. Chickens died in handfuls, then en masse. Street dogs disappeared. Then it took the children.

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How Hunting is Driving Evolution in Reverse

2009-02-02T23:55:00.001+01:00

When hunting is severe enough to outstrip other threats to survival, the unsought, middling individuals make out better than the stronger alpha animals, and the species changes. "Survival of the fittest" is still the rule, but the "fit" begin to look unlike what you might expect.

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The Carbon Footprint of Nuclear War

2009-02-02T23:52:00.003+01:00

A recent US study that compares the environmental costs of developing various power sources found that almost 700m tonnes of CO2 would be released into the Earth's atmosphere by even the smallest nuclear conflict.

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Green Algae Bloom Process Could Stop Global Warming

2009-02-02T23:52:00.001+01:00

A team of UK scientists have discovered a natural process that could delay, or even end, the threat of global warming.

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APOD:Breaking Distant Light

2009-02-02T23:51:00.003+01:00

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Where You Sit On A Bus Can Define Your Personality

2009-02-02T23:51:00.001+01:00

Where you sit on a bus can define your personality, according to a psychologist. Forward-minded people tend to sit at the front of the top deck, according to Dr Tom Fawcett of Salford University, the independent-minded in the middle and those with a rebellious streak at the rear.

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Scientists Discover True Love

2009-02-02T23:50:00.003+01:00

Brain scans have proved that a small number of couples can respond with as much passion after 20 years as most people exhibit only in the first flush of love...researchers nicknamed the couples “swans” because they have similar mental “love maps” to animals that mate for life such as swans, voles and grey foxes.

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Astronomers Say Time Travel Happens All The Time

2009-02-02T23:50:00.001+01:00

Time travel seems like stuff of science fiction, but in a sense, astronomers do it all the time.

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Green Inc.: Offsets in the Air in San Francisco

2009-02-02T23:49:00.001+01:00

This spring, travelers entering San Francisco International Airport will see a new type of kiosk at check-in -- one offering carbon offsets for those who wish to counter the greenhouse-gas emissions from their trip.

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Canada's forests now add to, not subtract from, climate woes

2009-02-02T23:48:00.001+01:00

The country's 1.2 million square miles of trees -- dubbed the "lungs of the planet" by ecologists because they account for more than 7 percent of Earth's total forest lands -- could always be depended upon to suck in vast quantities of carbon dioxide, cleansing the world of much of the harmful heat-trapping gas. Not anymore.

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APOD: Double Cluster in Perseus

2009-02-02T23:47:00.001+01:00

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Genes give Africans a better sense of taste

2009-02-02T23:46:00.003+01:00

New research suggests that Africans have more sensitive palettes than Europeans and Asians – at least for bitter tastes. A survey of numerous African populations in Kenya and Cameroon found a striking amount of diversity in a gene responsible for sensing bitter tastes.

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The sum of human emotion

2009-02-02T23:46:00.001+01:00

Especially mathematicians, who spend all their days doing boring sums in some remote world of the intellect.Some news, guys: it's not true.

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Seven new wonders of the world

2009-02-02T23:44:00.003+01:00

Amazing.

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Glorious Hi-Res View of Orion and its Stars (PIC + overlay)

2009-02-02T23:44:00.001+01:00

Most people can identify the belt, but what about all the other stars that make up this constellation of Orion the Hunter?

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How Much are Energy Vampires Costing You? [Pic]

2008-08-26T22:14:00.002+02:00

Even when they are off a lot of appliances eat up amazing amounts of energy.

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Potatoes May Hold Key To Alzheimer's Treatment

2008-08-26T22:10:00.002+02:00

A virus that commonly infects potatoes bears a striking resemblance to one of the key proteins implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and researchers have used that to develop antibodies that may slow or prevent the onset of AD.

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APOD: Perseid over Vancouver

2008-08-26T22:09:00.002+02:00

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Study Reveals Ocean 'Dead Zones' Expanding Worldwide

2008-08-26T22:08:00.002+02:00

Oceanic "dead zones" where marine life cannot survive have been steadily increasing over the past five decades and now encompass 400 coastal areas of the world, a US-Swedish study said Friday.

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Portal to Mythical Mayan Underworld Found in Mexico

2008-08-26T22:06:00.002+02:00

Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld.

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Scientists: Star Trek's Warp Drive is Actually Possible

2008-08-26T22:05:00.002+02:00

Two physicists have boldly gone where no reputable scientists should go and devised a new scheme to travel faster than the speed of light. The advance could mean that Star Trek fantasies of interstellar civilisations and voyages powered by warp drive are now no longer the exclusive domain of science fiction writers.

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Engineers build mini drug-producing biofactories in yeast

2008-08-26T22:04:00.003+02:00

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a novel way to churn out large quantities of drugs, including antiplaque toothpaste additives, antibiotics, nicotine, and even morphine, using mini biofactories--in yeast.

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Brain 'will be battlefield of future'

2008-08-26T22:02:00.005+02:00

The human brain could become a battlefield in future wars, a new report predicts, including 'pharmacological land mines' and drones directed by mind control

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Scientists Develop a Robot with a Biological Brain

2008-08-26T22:02:00.004+02:00

It’s interesting to note that this project is being led by Professor Kevin Warwick, who became famous in 1998 when a silicon chip was implanted in his arm to allow a computer to monitor him in order to assess the latest technology for use with the disabled.

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Mankind is the 'Earth's Biggest Threat'

2008-08-26T22:01:00.002+02:00

Global warming is causing significant changes to the Earth's natural systems and it is highly unlikely that any force but man-made climate change can be blamed .

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Guy Films Space Shuttle Launch from Passing Airliner

2008-08-26T22:00:00.002+02:00

Watching a space shuttle launch from the ground is undoubtedly very awe inspiring, but this video of a launch takes the biscuit: It's filmed from thousands of feet in the air.

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Remains of Ancient Cemetery Found in Sahara

2008-08-26T21:59:00.003+02:00

A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert. The slender arms of the youngsters were still extended to the woman in perpetual embrace when researchers discovered their skeletons in a remarkable cemetery that is providing clues to two civilizations who lived there.

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Spaceship Could Fly Faster Than Light

2008-08-26T21:55:00.002+02:00

The idea involves manipulating dark energy – the mysterious force behind the universe's ongoing expansion – to propel a spaceship forward without breaking the laws of physics. "Think of it like a surfer riding a wave," said Gerald Cleaver, a physicist at Baylor University. "The ship would be pushed by the spatial bubble and the bubble would

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Nukeidolia

2008-08-26T21:53:00.002+02:00

Well, this one is original, I’ll give it that…I got an interesting email from French BABloggee Pierre Joliveau. His father worked on some nuclear tests in French Polynesia back in the 1950s, and took some amazing photographs of the explosions.

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Report: spies need to stay on top of neuorscience research

2008-08-26T21:52:00.002+02:00

The National Research Council is publishing a report, Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies, on the need for the intelligence community to develop better institutional awareness of neuroscience research as a matter of national security.

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Scientists Find Ways to Cloak 3D Materials

2008-08-26T21:51:00.003+02:00

New invisibility cloak works toward fulfilling long-time dreams of military, ninjas, fantasy fans alike.A new breakthrough in the art of illusion has been achieved. Researchers at the UC Berkeley have for the first time found a way to cloak 3D materials.They did this with not only one, but with two different materials.

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Birth Control Pill Make Women Pick Bad Mates

2008-08-26T21:50:00.003+02:00

Birth-control pills could screw up a woman's ability to sniff out a compatible mate, a new study finds. While several factors can send a woman swooning, including big brains and brawn, body odor can be critical in the final decision, the researchers say.

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Study: The Ocean is Totally Screwed

2008-08-26T21:49:00.002+02:00

A major part of Jackson’s study, is the view that humans are laying the groundwork for mass extinctions within our oceans not seen since the ecological upheavals of our murky past, according to a new study published in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Spooky Physics: Signals Seem to Travel Faster Than Light

2008-08-26T21:47:00.002+02:00

Strange events that Einstein himself called "spooky" might happen at least 10,000 times the speed of light, according to the latest attempt to understand them. Atoms, electrons, and the rest of the infinitesimally tiny building blocks of the universe can behave rather bizarrely, going completely against the way life as we normally experience it.

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Nanoantenna Arrays Seen As Possible Solar Cell Replacement

2008-08-26T21:44:00.002+02:00

Traditional solar cells only use up to 20% of the visible light they collect, and more efficient solar cells are too expensive for mass production. Now researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Idaho Laboratory have figured out a way to capture solar energy on the cheap: plastic sheets filled with billions of nanoantennas.

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DNA Glitch Prevents Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes

2008-08-26T21:43:00.002+02:00

In about 30% of children, the coils of their DNA carry a glitch, one that leaves their brains with few dopamine receptors, molecules that act as docking ports for one of the neurochemicals that carry our thoughts and emotions. Children with the genetic variant are unable to learn from mistakes.

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The Top 7 Biofuels to Drive Us Beyond Gasoline

2008-08-26T21:42:00.002+02:00

Forget food crops. Future fuels will come from more practical feedstocks. Plus, each generation will use fewer resources and pack more energy than the last. PM crunches the numbers on alternative fuels for the real world.

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Molecules multiplied

2008-08-26T21:41:00.006+02:00

The ability to amplify minuscule quantities of DNA into workable samples, using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), has transformed biology. Now Chad Mirkin and Hyo Jae Hoon at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, think they have a working example that proves that the feat is possible for compounds other than nucleic acids.

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Berkeley Scientists: World In 'Mass Extinction Spasm'

2008-08-26T21:41:00.005+02:00

Devastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just frogs and salamanders. Researchers said substantial die-offs of amphibians and other plant and animal species add up to a new mass extinction facing the planet.

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Mental Images Are Like Pictures - Slide Show

2008-08-26T21:38:00.005+02:00

Joel Pearson and his team from Vanderbilt University have found strong evidence suggesting that our brains experience mental images as if they were pictures.

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Fear Factors: Understand Your Phobias

2008-08-26T21:38:00.004+02:00

...if your anxiety is so intense that it causes you to alter the way you live, you might be classified as a having a phobia, an anxiety disorder characterized by intense, irrational fear of an object, situation or person. If so, you have company...the behavioral part of cognitive-behavioral therapy involves gradually exposing yourself

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Magnificent Waterfall “Discovered” in Peru

2008-08-26T21:34:00.002+02:00

Magnificent Waterfall “Discovered” in Peru– Perhaps One of World’s Tallest. The big environmental news coming out of Peru this past week was that a huge waterfall previously unknown to the greater world was “discovered” in the country’s Amazon Rainforest region.

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Invisibility cloak 'step closer'

2008-08-26T21:33:00.003+02:00

Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible...

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APOD: Black Hole Candidate Cygnus X-1

2008-08-26T21:31:00.002+02:00

Is that a black hole? Quite possibly. The Cygnus X-1 binary star system contains one of the best candidates for a black hole. The system was discovered because it is one of the brightest X-ray sources on the sky, shining so bright it was detected by the earliest rockets carrying cameras capable of seeing the previously unknown X-ray sky.

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Scientists stop the ageing process

2008-08-26T21:30:00.002+02:00

Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says.

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Extraordinary satellite images: Britain as seen from space

2008-08-26T21:29:00.002+02:00

This is Britain - but not as we know it. These extraordinary satellite images reveal what our nation looks like from the skies.From flight paths and road networks to telephone exchanges across London, the stunning aerial shots paint a striking new perspective on the British Isles.

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Glaciers: Before and After (Photo Gallery)

2008-08-26T21:27:00.002+02:00

BEFORE: Take a look at Agassiz Glacier, in this photograph taken in 1913, near Boulder Pass, Glacier National Park. NEXT IMAGE: Agassiz Glacier (2005) Click to enlarge.

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CERN rap video about LHC creates black hole of awesomeness

2008-08-26T21:25:00.002+02:00

Been having a tough time figuring out just what CERN's Large Hadron Collider does? Worried that it will create a Möbius strip (a rip in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop)? Just love to jam? Watch this CERN-sponsored rap after the break, and have your universe totally destroyed. Er, but not for real.

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Real Life Terminator Material Invented

2008-08-26T21:24:00.002+02:00

Material bends, stretches and conducts electricity?

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Why We Are All Insane

2008-08-26T21:22:00.002+02:00

Natural selection wants us to be crazy — at least a little bit. While true debilitating insanity is not nature's intention, many mental health issues may be byproducts of the over-functional human brain, some researchers claim. And thus, a diversity of new mental abilities, and disabilities, unfurled.

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The Neanderthal murder mystery

2008-08-26T21:21:00.002+02:00

Why did Neanderthal man become extinct? Was it interbreeding with humans? Or did our ancestors wipe them out? Steve Connor reports on a fossil that may solve the puzzle

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Bees, Fish Analyzed to Understand Serial Killers

2008-08-26T21:19:00.002+02:00

Studying species in the animal world helps police catch human criminals -- and vice versa. Originally developed to catch serial killers, a method called geographic profiling is now being used to study great white sharks, bats and bees.

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Slow Motion Lightning Video is Mindblowing

2008-08-26T21:18:00.002+02:00

Well, this is just about the most amazing thing I've ever seen. It's a lightning bolt that's shooting down from the sky, shot in slow motion. I'm not sure exactly how fast this camera is, but it's got to be shooting at a speed faster than the Casio EX-F1 can shoot at, at least at a resolution this high. Whatever, who cares?

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Tracking the location of objects in your mind

2008-08-26T21:17:00.002+02:00

It depends on what you believe. Imagine yourself in a room surrounded by 11 objects arranged in a circle. You memorize the position of the objects, then you close your eyes, and rotate 1/3 of the way around (120°). Keeping your eyes closed, can you point to the object that was behind you before? Most people can do this without much difficulty.....

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APOD: X-Rays From the Cat's Eye Nebula

2008-08-06T12:48:00.002+02:00

Haunting patterns within planetary nebula NGC 6543 readily suggest its popular moniker -- the Cat's Eye nebula. Starting in 1995, stunning false-color optical images from the Hubble Space Telescope detailed the swirls of this glowing nebula, known to be the gaseous shroud expelled from a dying sun-like star about 3,000 light-years from Earth.

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Top 5 Plants that Inspire New Technology

2008-08-06T12:47:00.002+02:00

There’s a lot of hype out there about new technologies that will “change everything”. Sometimes it’s nice to sit back and “smell the roses”. In that spirit, here are five plants with surprising super powers - they have provided a boost to technological innovation or invention, often with a green lining.

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Rare ‘Devil’s Cigar’ fungus discovered in Nara

2008-08-06T12:46:00.005+02:00

One of the world’s rarest fungi, an exotic star-shaped mushroom known to exist at only three locations on Earth, has been discovered in the mountains of Nara prefecture.

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Amazing Gorilla Find In The Congo

2008-08-06T12:46:00.004+02:00

Researchers have found what they Gorillasare labeling the 'mother load' of western lowland gorillas in the Republic of Congo. The gorillas have been found in an isolated forest known by researchers and scientists alike as the "Green Abyss" because the forest is nearly impossible to navigate on foot because of all the swamps...

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Nearly 50% of all the World's Primates at Risk of Extinction

2008-08-06T12:22:00.002+02:00

Nearly half of all primate species are now threatened with extinction, according to an evaluation by the IUCN. The study, which drew on the work of hundreds of scientists and is the most comprehensive analysis for more than a decade, found that the conservation outlook for monkeys, apes and other primates has dramatically worsened.

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Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans' Decline

2008-08-06T12:08:00.004+02:00

In a period of hours during a day a couple of weeks ago, 300 people on Barcelona's bustling beaches were treated for stings, and 11 were taken to hospitals. From Spain to New York, to Australia, Japan and Hawaii, jellyfish are becoming more numerous and more widespread, and they are showing up in places where they have rarely been seen before.

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Sleep makes you SMARTER

2008-08-06T12:08:00.003+02:00

New studies reveal exciting insights into the nature of sleep, memory, consciousness, and learning!

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10 Total Solar Eclipse PICS

2008-08-06T12:07:00.002+02:00

Photos of the eclipse from all over the world

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NASA Image of the Day - Phoenix Provides a Panorama of Mars

2008-08-06T12:04:00.002+02:00

Combining more than 400 images taken during the first weeks after the Phoenix arrived on the Red planet's arctic plain gave scientists this view of Mars.

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Total Solar Eclipse Images From Around The World (PHOTOS)

2008-08-06T12:01:00.002+02:00

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Boozing Mammal DrinksBeer Every Night.1st Nonhuman Alcoholic

2008-08-06T11:58:00.002+02:00

NatGeo: "Because the species is considered similar to the ancient ancestors of all primates, its 55-million-year bender suggests that our own taste for alcohol might predate the known advent of brewing some 9,000 years ago."

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