Hey NASA space shuttle damage is not minor
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis apparently was hit by a piece of debris that nicked part of its heat shield but the damage appeared very minor, NASA said on Tuesday.

You don’t need the exterminator for these ants you need the ghost busters
It sounds like something out of science fiction: zombie fire ants. But it’s all too real.
Fire ants wander aimlessly away from the mound.
Eventually their heads fall off, and they die.

 
Coral Triangle
With its pleasure boats dipping on the horizon and clustered tourist restaurants, the Indonesian island of Nusa Lembongan looks little like the edge of a great wilderness.  (Pics)

Just Landed – 36 Hours
Artist Jer Thorp has harnessed the internet’s oversharing tendencies for good, compiling 36 hours worth of “just landed in…” tweets into one beautiful 3D visualization.

‘Emotionally intelligent’ women have better sex lives
Beauty may bag you a man – but brains will bring you more fun in the bedroom.  Women blessed with ‘emotional intelligence’ – the ability to express their feelings and read those of others – have better sex lives, research shows.

Acupuncture may help chronic back pain 
Acupuncture appears to be an effective treatment for chronic back ache with sufferers reporting a 20 per cent reduction in pain, according to research.

Vertical farm for Vancouver’s 2030 Challenge 
Vertical farms are one of our favorite future-forward concepts for creating sustainable cities. Providing locally-grown produce and food will not only help us reduce our carbon emissions significantly, but also help us become healthier. Romses Architects recently came up with an amazing concept for a vertical farm in Vancouver as part [...]

Correct Coral Care is Critical to a Healthy Plantet

At the World Oceans Conference 2009 in Manado, Indonesia, scientists are focusing on the Coral Reef Triangle, a section of ocean near the nations of Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and the Solomon islands. The Coral Reef Triangle is home to the largest [...]

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development released a new study ranking the world’s nations by the happiness levels of their citizens. According to the published results, northern Europeans are the happiest people in the world. The top ten are…

A whole new way to deal with your photos

A couple lines of code. That’s all it takes for photographers and publishers with large inventories of images to start selling their work on their own websites, thanks to an ambitious fledgling company. You’d think that something so simple could be pulled off by many a startup, [...]