For the very first time in New York coastal waters, the voices of singing blue whales have been positively identified. Acoustic experts at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) confirmed that the voice of a singing blue whale was tracked about 70 [...]

 
Keyboarding for dummies
There are those who have never learned how to type. These people use a method called hunt n peck. Understandably, these people have a hard time trying to hunt and peck on a normal keyboard. With this keyboard, just hit the ABC key and it will switch to alphabetical order, making it easier [...]

Solar powered trash can hits philly
There’s a new trash can in Philadelphia. Several in fact. These brand new solar trash cans are being installed on philly sidewalks and are entirely powered by the sun.

Escape building emergencies with batman like style
When Batman needs to get out of a skyscraper, he doesn’t take the stairs or the elevator. No, he rappels down the building. And now you too can leave your next board meeting like a superhero.

Cosmic ghost. ohhh spooky
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a cosmic “ghost” lurking around a distant supermassive black hole. This is the first detection of such a high-energy apparition, and scientists think it is evidence of a huge eruption produced by the black hole.

All Dogs Go To Heaven
 There is a serious side to religion, but there is also a humorous side to religion.  Here we have a good spirited rivalry between the Catholics and Presbyterians on whether All Dogs Go To Heaven.  So, please enjoy this spirited debate after the jump…

Cherries have a natural anti-inflammation power 
People who drank the unsweetened juice while training for a long distance relay reported much less duress after exercise than those who did not.

 
Kiniki’s tan-through bikini is made of a special fabric that allows sunlight to penetrate through microscopic holes.
It is the curse of sun-kissed holidays – the dreaded zebra crossing look caused by wearing swimwear on the beach. But tanlines could become a thing of the past after a firm developed a range of ’see-through’ swimming costumes. [...]

The simple act of holding a drink displays a lot more about us than we realize
All revellers fall into one of eight different personality types which are given away by their drinking techniques, a leading psychologist has concluded.
Dr Glenn Wilson, a consultant psychologist at King’s College, London, observed over 500 drinkers in bars last month.
He [...]

Ringing cell phone is a distraction in the classroom
Just the ring of a cell phone can pose a dangerous distraction for drivers, especially when it comes in a classroom setting or includes a familiar song as a ringtone, says a new study.

Most people though he was an elephant until they took a close look at his teeth
We live in an odd world. In fact, it has become so odd that we have dramatically raised the bar on “oddness”. Too often now, the regular strange can not be easily separated from radical strange. And there are many [...]

Earth changes seen threw the lens of a time lapse camera
Over the past decade, the number of people on Earth shot up by more than 13 percent, to nearly 6.8 billion people. To make room for all the hungry, breeding, CO2-emitting bodies on our small planet, we’ve ravaged Earth’s surface with staggering feats of deforestation, [...]

They are always watching
Digital security is clearly an important matter to President Barack Obama and he will today appoint a “cyber czar” to oversee the nation’s computer defenses.

Apple praising Microsoft now thats new
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has reported a favorable impression of Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

Steampunk style art or extraterrestrial art you make the call
Okay fine, maybe this is more of an artistic representation that’s taken a few liberties, but still, the Neuron Chamber on display at Maker Faire 2009 is a pretty cool looking piece of extraterrestrial art.
Creator Alan Rorie says that the concept behind the Neuron Chamber is [...]

Invisibility is on the horizon
While some work toward an invisibility cloak, University of Illinois professor Nicholas Fang is taking steps to create a similar material, only for sound, that could, for example, make ships invisible to SONAR. To successfully do this, of course, requires we break the laws of physics. But, you know, whatever.

Avatars with emotions 
Anyone who’s played through a game like Microsoft’s Fable II (who can forget your virtual dog?), BioWare’s Mass Effect (with its robust roster of non-playable characters) or seen Sony’s upcoming Heavy Rain (whose developer, Quantic Dream, promises a new type of relationship between player and character) may have wondered to themselves whether gaming, [...]

 
Why do people have fingerprints?
Fingerprints do not help primates grip, as previously thought, scientists have discovered. They actually reduce the friction needed to hold onto flat surfaces. Now Dr Roland Ennos and his team at The University of Manchester are trying to find out: why do we have them?
Dr Ennos, at the University’s Faculty of Life [...]

Burmese Python in the Florida Everglades
The population of Burmese pythons in Florida’s Everglades may have grown to as many as 150,000 as the non-native snakes make a home and breed in the fragile wetlands, officials said.

Capital Gate 
Capital Gate, the iconic leaning building in Abu Dhabi, reached halfway point. The building, designed by international architects RMJM, will lean 18 degrees westward, 14 degrees more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A third of the world’s remaining natural gas and 13 per cent of its oil is trapped beneath the Arctic 
Tensions over the Arctic’s untapped energy reserves are expected to build after a survey has found substantial mineral riches under the ice.
The analysis, by researchers at the U.S. Geologic Survey, found that a third of world’s [...]

New Approaches For Treating, Preventing Skin Diseases
The health of our skin — one of the body’s first lines of defense against illness and injury — depends upon the delicate balance between our own cells and the millions of bacteria and other one-celled microbes that live on its surface. To better understand this balance, National Institutes [...]

When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain’s pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry.

Our brain is wired to identify gender based on facial cues and coloring, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vision. Psychology Professor Frédéric Gosselin and his Université de Montréal team found the luminescence of the eyebrow and mouth region is vital in rapid gender discrimination.

Why Bacteria Are So Effective
In an article published in Science, teams from the Institut Pasteurand the University of Limoges, associated with the CNRS and Inserm, decipher for the first time the molecular mechanism that enables bacteria to acquire multi-resistance to antibiotics, and that even allows them to adapt this resistance to their environment. This discovery [...]