Cool Amphibious Manufacturers International, LLC, is now marketing their TerraWind line of combination Motor Coach / Yachts. Thats right, a 42 foot Luxury RV you can take to, or in, the lake! With a not exactly cheap pricetag of $850K+, included is the full rigging of luxury home features: Granite countertops, marble floors, teak cabinetry, [...]

Scientists have created a technique that dramatically improves the performance of musicians.
The system – called neurofeedback – trains musicians to clear their minds and produce more creative brain waves.
Research, to be published in the journal Neuroreport, indicates the technique helps musicians to improve by an average of 17% – the equivalent of one [...]

University of Michigan scientists have developed a new technique to sort out the swimmers from the duds in semen, which could lead to a more efficient way for men who suffer from low sperm counts to make babies.
The new sperm sorter consists of a penny-size silicon chip divided into two channels. Semen is dripped onto [...]

The FBI and consumer organisations in the US have issued a warning about a growing fraud scheme involving emails that lure people to fake websites to collect sensitive personal or financial data.
The scam involves email that links users to sites that are designed to look like legitimate sites and deceive consumers into revealing credit card [...]

Severely disabled people who cannot operate a motorised wheelchair may one day get their independence, thanks to a system that lets them steer a wheelchair using only their thoughts.
Unlike previous thought-communication devices, the system does not use surgical implants. Instead a skullcap peppered with electrodes monitors the electrical activity of its wearer’s brain. Early trials [...]

A lot of people seem to be in a rush to blame the spam deluge on the lack of authentication provided by the venerable Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) standard. The truth is, existence of SMTP authentication would, by itself, do almost nothing to alleviate the spam problem. It’s important to understand what SMTP authentication [...]

Surprising new PET and MRI images show deaf people process sign language in the brain regions that for 125 years were regarded as sound centres, such as the superior temporal gyrus. “Regardless of whether we speak American Sign Language or French or English, the human brain processes the information in the identical way,” says Laura [...]

Scientists are wrestling with individual atoms to develop molecule-sized computers, tiny cancer-fighting robots that travel the bloodstream … and stain-resistant trousers.
Nanotechnology — the science of manipulating materials billionths of a meter wide — has emerged as a promising new field that could lead to stunning advances in years to come.
Boosters claim that nanotech-derived [...]