BLACK widow spiders vary their webs to suit their purpose. A hungry spider spins a deadlier web, while a full one builds a fortress.

A slice of the Caribbean in your own backyard
Just when you need more options to go with the flow of barbeque parties, Bull Outdoor Products bring to you the ultimate barbecuing experience by adding different options such as CD Players and Bar Centers to their line of grills. My pick is this Gourmet Q with [...]

 
They might be listening
The first thing alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA’s Cluster mission is showing scientists how to understand this emission and, in the future, search for alien [...]

Charlie bit my finger
 Here is a crazy collection of this weeks top videos.
 

 
 Piece of cake.  No serious engineering needed here
The idea is as wondrous as it is audacious: Get on a train at New York City’s Penn Station and hit Paris, London or Brussels just an hour later. “From an engineering point of view there are no serious stumbling blocks,” says Ernst Frankel, retired professor of ocean [...]

Make room! The tough guys are back
The female body has always managed to evoke emotions – from wonder to awe, to envy, desire, and even disgust. It makes you wonder: when was the last you salivated over a male body?
We mean, really salivated over a real man? A man you’d love to romance [...]

 
 23 foot by 10 foot display
NASA just unveiled its Hyperwall 2, the world’s highest resolution visualization system. What’s that mean? Well, it’s a 128-screen display that covers an entire wall, capable of rendering a quarter billion pixel graphics. It’s 23 feet wide and 10 feet tall. Yeah, it’s big and it’s awesome.

 
 Spend the night in this harbor crane.
Honeymoon in a bordello, holiday in a prison, vacation in a military helicopter. There is no end to the strange forms of accommodation on offer to the discerning tourist.

 
  
You can always spot the Viagra athletes because they like to show off
Athletes looking for a performance boost are increasingly turning to a little blue pill more usually taken for its off-the-field benefits: Viagra.
Some sports authorities say the drug is now finding a following among athletes. The World Anti-Doping Agency is currently studying Viagra’s effects [...]

 Portable “pod”
Technology is developing across every genre around the world. Sometimes though it takes a really simple idea to make us realize that. One such idea came from the minds Gollifer Langston’s Architects based in London. Their idea for a transportable “Classroom of the Future” could very well change how we look at modern education.

Brain boost: A noninvasive way to electrically stimulate the brain, known as
transcranial direct current stimulation, has shown success in enhancing learning.
A little brain boost is something we could all use now and then. A new option may be on the horizon. Researchers at the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, in Bethesda, MD, are [...]

 They call it the “red planet” because the soil is great for growing tomatoes
“Flabbergasted” NASA scientists said on Thursday that Martian soil appeared to contain the requirements to support life, although more work would be needed to prove it.