Feature: highly accurate mapping
The European Space Agency is set to launch the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) Star Destroyer satellite on September 10th. This advanced mission will be the most sophisticated piece of kit ever to orbit the Earth, investigating the Earth’s gravitational field. It will perform a highly accurate mapping campaign, [...]

Full time job, laying down
What do those people do? They implement new technology in agriculture. It consists of one tractor riding by the road in the middle of the cucumber field and carrying up to ten people by both sides of the thing that its towing. People lay on it and pick up cucumbers on [...]

Which one is different?
The Australian government has issued its first license allowing scientists to create cloned human embryos to try and obtain embryonic stem cells.

 
When nature calls, sometimes it demands attention
Few people around the world choose to make a difference by adding fashion elements to their toilets. Those who manage to make a name for themselves, deserve our respect. Because it involves a moment of peak personal humility, we took time out of our busy routines to find toilets [...]

 
 Audio Bone 1.0
There has been so much written and spoken about ear drum damage due to earplugs that the health hazards are now being ignored altogether. Moreover, the lack of an alternate technology so far has forced earphone users to make do with these ‘harmful’ products.
 

 
Scientists have found a way to create powdered methane, making it much easier to store the elusive silent-but-deadly gas. By mixing the methane in a blender with water and silica, roughly one liter of the fuel can be stored in about six grams of powder.
 

 
In this chilling security camera footage, a female suicide bomber
is seen patiently answering questions in a bustling government office
before calmly standing up and detonating the bomb hidden in her bra.
Since the 2003 invasion, 53 Iraqi women have either carried out suicide attacks or were apprehended before they could do so, according to the U.S. [...]

 
Off the coast of Peru swim billions of sardines and anchovies: oily, smelly little fish, rich in nutritious omega-3 fatty acids. Their spot on the food chain is low; many will be caught, ground up, and fed as fishmeal to bigger animals.

 
 Multi-Touch Experiment Using Google Earth
Schools are set for a Star Trek make-over thanks to the development of the world’s first interactive classroom by experts at Durham University.