Fossil Footprints Show
Ancient footprints found at Rutgers’ Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.

Spiral galaxies seen edge-on often show dark lanes of interstellar dust
The vast expanses of intergalactic space appear to be filled with a haze of tiny, smoke-like “dust” particles that dim the light from distant objects and subtly change their colors, according to a team of astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II).

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. Ever since the “barreleye” fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that its tubular eyes are very good at collecting light.

A pregnant fossil fish at the Natural History Museum in London has shed light on the possible origin of sex, according to a study published today in the journal Nature by an international team including Museum scientists.

Brain Encodes Complex Plumes Of Odors With A Simple Code
In the real world, odors don’t happen one puff at a time. Animals move through, and subsequently distort, plumes of odor molecules that constantly drift, changing direction as the wind disperses them. Now, by exploring how animals smell odors under naturalistic conditions, Rockefeller University scientist Maria [...]

Fair at what price?

The modern chocolate industry has a long history marred by slavery and deforestation. From the birth of the industry with the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs to the modern industry centered in West Africa the problems have remained constant. Organic, fair trade chocolate has become more prevalent over the past couple of years, [...]

An artistic rendition of nonfunctioning dung drop

Sometimes a lemon needs to be called a lemon. At other times, megalithic electronic giants need to have a tear trotting, guffaw inducing satirical comment made about them. Thankfully the fine folks over at The Onion (America’s Finest News Source) have decided to take it upon themselves to do just [...]

Oh the colors of this crazy critter.

A psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species.
The frogfish – which has a swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes that extend from its aqua eyes to its tail – was initially discovered by scuba diving instructors [...]

Cleanliness at a high cost.

Here’s something for you to ponder the next time you’re in the bathroom: American’s love for soft toilet paper is ecologically hard on forests!
… fluffiness comes at a price: millions of trees harvested in North America and in Latin American countries, including some percentage of trees from rare old-growth forests in [...]

Electrified Fashion
There is nothing I loathe more than being cold, for some people overheating is worse.  Typically it’s the overly scrawny that hate the cold, either way, for those that do hate the cold, there are now these incredibly brilliant pants.  They aren’t the most fashionable wear out there and not exactly form fitting, but [...]

When you thought your day sucked…
 
A 20-year-old tramper has been hospitalised after being attacked by a swarm of bees then falling down a 30m bluff near Tauranga.

Another version of the hot coffee story comes around again but this time its peanut hazards
“The crunch of peanuts underfoot” is part of the marketing pitch for Logan’s Roadhouse. So when they encourage patrons to eat from bottomless buckets of peanuts and throw the shells right on the floor, it is roadhouse décor or a [...]

Now you can see how bad your swing really is face to face or at least a computer image of yourself looking back at you
EA Sports boss Peter Moore has officially announced details on the publishers’ first titles set to support Wii MotionPlus functionality, with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Grand Slam Tennis the [...]

 
Bye, bye
Microsoft has some good news for movie fans. If you want to watch .mov files in Windows 7, you don’t need to install Apple’s QuickTime. Bye, bye annoying system tray icon! Adios, Apple update!

 
The only school where cell phones should be allowed in class
A BUSINESSMAN who lost his mobile phone on a beach was amazed when it turned up – in the belly of a massive cod.