Is there any way i can buy those red shoes?
At first, figuring out how pebble-sized rocks organize themselves in evenly-spaced patterns in sand seemed simple and even intuitive. But once Andrew Leier, an assistant geoscience professor at the U of C, started observing, he discovered that the most commonly held notions did not apply.

The death of one creates Another?
— Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets — dead stars.

Hind Wings Help Butterflies Make Swift Turns To Evade Predators, Study Finds

New tires allow race cars to take tight turns at high speeds. Hind wings give moths and butterflies similar advantages: They are not necessary for basic flight but help these creatures take tight turns to evade predators.

Prediction prediction prediction… So when is Global Warming supposed to take its HUGE Turn?
New research indicates that the ocean could rise in the next 100 years to a meter higher than the current sea level – which is three times higher than predictions from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

That Gobble Carbon Dioxide Coincided With Ancient Global Cooling
The evolutionary history of diatoms — abundant oceanic plankton that remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year — needs to be rewritten, according to a new Cornell study. The findings suggest that after a sudden rise in species numbers, diatoms abruptly declined [...]

 
I’m normally pretty skeptical of “gaming gadgetry” as usually it’s just repackaged, cheaper tech sold to a niche market. Calgary-based Psyko Audio Labs, however, has a bona-fide draw: the speakers aren’t in the earphones, but along the headband.

 
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research.

 
SATY MP3  
CES has big, fancy products like the new Palm OS, and then they have stuff like this. In a little pod in the Sands, a Chinese company called SATY is showing this rather blocky music and video player with some unusual features. It’s got a flashlight. It’s got a radio. It’s got a [...]

 
Come this spring, parents will have another tool at their disposal when it comes to shutting up kids in the backseat. Called Cruisecast, it’s AT&T’s foray into car-based satellite TV, and it’s expensive.

 
 
 Sony Cybershot G3
The Sony Cybershot G3 is a true first. It boasts direct web browsing from the camera via WiFi. The camera can upload photos and videos to Web sites through any public hotspot via its built-in Web browser. It comes with complimentary AT&T WiFi access to Sony’s Easy Upload Home Page all the way [...]