Stonehenge is a massive fertility symbol, according to Canadian researchers who believe they have finally cracked the mystery of the ancient monument in southern England.
In the arrangement of the stones, the researchers say they have spotted the original design: female genitalia.
The theory is laid out in a paper entitled “Stonehenge: a view from medicine” in [...]

The number of public wireless computer networks known as Wi-Fi will surpass 200,000 in five years, up from 28,000 locations this year, with the fastest growth in Asia, according to a new report.
So-called Wi-Fi hot-spots have gotten a string of major corporate endorsements in recent months, making airports and even McDonald’s Corp. MCD.N restaurants into [...]

A shopper in southern France literally named his own price when he visited several supermarkets near Montpellier.
According to police, the 22-year-old suspect fabricated barcode labels on his home computer, and by using them to replace the originals was able to acquire goods for a fraction of their real prices.
Police said a store clerk spotted him [...]

If hot-desking is the bane of your life then software that automatically logs you onto the nearest computer could help. All you need to do is laugh.
Computer scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, wanted to make it easier for staff to log onto networked computers. So they came up with SoundHunters, a program that [...]

Wired is running an interesting article about ‘lifters’, hovering UFO-looking vehicles that have no moving parts, no onboard power supply, and are capable of levitating simply through the application of high amounts of electrical current. Enthusiasts claim their vehicles are examples of a nascent antigravity technology, while more traditional scientists – including some funded by [...]

To counteract joint replacement failure, researchers are developing intelligent artificial joints that can recognize, diagnose and treat infections and report back to doctors about what diagnoses and treatments they have made.
The announcement that an interdisciplinary group of scientists aims to build such devices was made at an American Society for Microbiology conference on bio-, micro- [...]

A Syrian mobile phone company has broken the record for the world’s largest sweet.
Spacetel Syria, the operator of “94″ network, created the 53ft-long, 40ft-wide, four-tonne marzipan pistachio sweet.
They needed 225 cooks, picked from all over Syria, to make it.
The makers used 120kg of pistachio nuts, three tons of glucose, 1.5 tons of almonds, 2kg of [...]

Scientists have built a minute, functioning vascular system – the branching network of blood vessels which supply nutrients and oxygen to tissues – in a significant step towards building whole organs.
Conventional tissue engineering methods have successfully grown structural tissues such as skin and cartilage in the lab. But not being able to create the supporting [...]

The New Yorker has a clear, concise, nontechnical essay by its finance columnist James Surowiecki criticizing business process patents: Patent Bending. ‘Although we have always had a vibrant patent system, we’ve managed to strike a balance between the need to encourage innovation and the need to foster competition. As Benjamin Day, Henry Ford, and Sam [...]