Gmail, Arrow in Your Email
	Google is trying hard to compete with Yahoo! in the email category because it knows that’s one of the last strongholds the Sunnyvale-based company is left with on the Internet. At the moment, it’s bringing more changes to Gmail in a month than Yahoo! does in a year, and that’s according to statistics. Then again, when you’ve got a late start, that’s the only way to do it. Not many people know about the personal level indicators that [AD ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oetzi, The Oldest Preserved Human Being: 5,300 Years Old
	At first sight, it looked like a crime place. A drought cadaver was lying face downward, half stuck in the ice. An accidental death or a crime? Or just another mountaineering victim at 3,200 m (10,660 ft) height in the Tirol Alps? The Ice Man was found in September 1991 by casualty by a couple of German mountaineers wandering on the Mount Similaun (in Oetztal Alps, at the border between Austria and Italy). The extremely warm summer in ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Did Oetzi, the Iceman, Die?
	This is the oldest natural ice mummy: 5,300 years old. The mummified, frozen body of Ötzi was discovered in 1991 by accident by two German tourists and the Ötztal region between Austria and Italy where it was discovered was called after it. The body, stuck in the Schnalstal glacier, offers a glimpse at the European Copper Age. Ever since this discovery, everybody has wanted to know why the mysterious Iceman died. In 2000 ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MythBusters Solve the Mystery of Stone Age Arrowheads
	When they found some odd looking stones dated tens of thousands of years ago, archaeologists already made a picture of the way people lived during Stone Age. Early people left a lot of projectile points made of stone which must have been affixed to arrow and spear shafts. Are those stones really projectile points? Which were the technological advantages or disadvantages of an arrowhead? Two anthropologists of the University of Wyoming, ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 04:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

An Over 100 Years Old Harpoon Tip Found in a Recently Killed Whale
	Scientists imagined that giant whales can live up to 80 years. This has proven wrong: a 50-ton bowhead whale recently captured off the Alaskan coast in May had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck revealing survival to a similar hunt over a century ago. Under the whale's blubber a 3½-inch (9 cm) arrow-shaped projectile was found, offering the researchers a new perspective on the whale’s age, estimated between 115 and 130 years ol ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2007, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia