New research suggests that playing certain types of video game can sharply improve your visual perception.
The study found that ’shoot-em-up’ style games that feature enemies that pop out of nowhere sharply improve attention skills.
Experienced players of these games are 30% to 50% better than non-players at taking in everything that happens around them, according to [...]

After 10 years of construction the Chinese authorities are closing the sluice gates on the massive Three Gorges dam to allow its reservoir to start filling up.
The $25bn project is the largest hydro-electric power project in the world, but years of controversy have surrounded its building.
The Three Gorges dam looms 300 metres above [...]

The National Science Foundation has selected a South Dakota site as best for a possible underground physics laboratory, rejecting a Mount San Jacinto site, according to the foundation.
“The panel, after extensive deliberations, unanimously concluded that the Homestake Mine was, by far, the most favorable site,” the foundation’s physics division director, Joseph Dehmer, wrote in [...]

Crystal-clear digital radio was set to hit America this September – but the technology has run into trouble. The US National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC) last week decided the system’s sound quality is not good enough to broadcast.
As a result, the NRSC has suspended its digital radio standards-setting process, which is vital to the launch [...]

A new material covered with nanoscopic hairs that mimic those found on geckos’ feet could allow people to walk up to sheer surfaces and across ceilings, say researchers.
Andre Geim and colleagues at the UK’s Manchester University say covering a person’s hand with the material would be enough to let them stick to the ceiling. The [...]