May 14 2008
Powerset’s search engine holds the promise of fundamentally changing people’s expectations for search engines by, in theory, offering a smarter, more efficient experience.
May 13 2008
When Kevin Rose founded Digg, the site caught on as a hub for quirky geek news, and it’s retained a reputation as being full of extremely opinionated tech enthusiasts. But with the 2008 presidential election on the way, Digg has caught on among...
May 10 2008
A newly developed saliva-based test could give physicians and emergency-care technicians a quicker and easier way to diagnose heart attacks. The nano-biochip test, developed at the University of Texas at Austin and supported by the National Institutes...
May 10 2008
Some animals – including migratory birds – must have molecules in their eyes or brains which respond to magnetism.
May 9 2008
Where is your cell phone at the moment? Stop; don’t trouble yourself searching for it, why search your phone when you need it? Perhaps that’s what you have been doing all the while. Numerous phones have hit the stands, with avant garde...
May 1 2008
Here are 20 creative food sculptures to get your appetite going! Or do they really
Apr 28 2008
Seeing the world captured in colour is something most of us take for granted. But at the start of the 20th century, the art of photography was rather more limited - to black and white images, with various shades of grey in between.
Apr 25 2008
Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released...
Apr 24 2008
It’s almost logical that our urine contains traces of what we eat and drink. But an international team of researchers decided to learn more and has analyzed frozen urine samples from 4,630 people. These samples have been collected between 1997 and...
Apr 22 2008
It is really difficult to imagine that this is actually a telephone, because it can be hung on the wall as a photo frame too. Beautiful pictures of your family members, friends and your own, can be shown continuously on the screen of the frame. When...