When Science Turns To S**t Would you like to know how long it takes an African elephant to produce your weight in poop? Did you know that termites use their own feces to glue their houses together? Can you recognize an animal from it... Continued
Stanton DJ Launches New T.90 USB High-Torque Turntable HOLLYWOOD, FL – April 12th, 2007 – Stanton DJ, an industry leader in the design and manufacture of professional audio products for club and mobile DJs and turntablists, has launched the new T.90 USB High-Torque... Continued
Google Snatches DoubleClick Under Microsoft’s Nose Microsoft and DoubleClick have been negotiating for the possibility of a buyout. Then suddenly, Google enters the arena and buys the Internet marketing company right from under the Redmond Giant. This ... Continued
OCZ Launches the ModXStream Power Supply Family Sunnyvale, CA—April 12, 2007—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and components, today announced the ModXStream Series, a new line of p... Continued
Was Tyrannosaurus Rex Nothing But a Big Chicken? The collagen extracted from a 68-million-year-old T. rex femur (thigh bone) has been sequenced for the first time. The fragment sequences were compared to collagen of modern species, and found to match that... Continued
Plants May Not Be Green Under Different Suns Germany’s Black Forest is in fact pretty green, but scientists at NASA predict that there may be real black forests on Earth-like planets orbiting stars emitting different wavelengths than our Sun. Photosyn... Continued
Rock N’Drive May Cause Road Rage It was already known that texting while driving was dangerous, but a recent survey – conducted online by Electronic Arts and AOL for the launch of the new “Burnout Dominator” racing game – has shown that li... Continued
Looking At The Mirror Of Time This highly elegant clock has LEDs embedded in its base and a polished steel backing where the numbers reflect, giving the impression that the display is floating in mid-air. Japanese firm YonoBI retails th... Continued
New Solar Cells With Vastly Improved Efficiency A research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA, has created a new 3D solar cell that traps photons more efficiently than any photovoltaic device currently in operation. Thanks to mic... Continued
Underwater Concept Reaches For The Sky The HyFish – a fuel cell-powered plane – is the brain-child of Swiss engineer Koni Schafroth, who developed an unmanned aircraft shaped like the fastest swimmer in the ocean: the tuna. It is incidentally qu... Continued
The Search For Earth II The search for an extra-solar planet with the same composition and size as Earth – therefore a good contender for the presence of life – is rendered extremely difficult by the glare of the star it orbits, a... Continued
Robot Adapts to Environment and Humans Too! “Something wonderful has happened... Number Five is alive!” This tagline from the 1986 movie Short Circuit could very well fit what most people will think of MIT’s new robot, Domo. This machine is able t... Continued
