Stupid Flies Live Longer
	As it turns out it really pays to be stupid. Well, at least for flies it does. A study carried out by a team of researchers from a Swiss university revealed that dumber flies live much longer than their geeky cousins. According to the results of the study revealed today by Tadeusz Kwackei and Joep Burger at the University of Lausanne, there is a definite correlation between the mental capabilities of a fly and its life longevity. [ADMA ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2008, 08:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fly-Inspired Robot Eyes Are Faster and More Accurate
	For most of us, a fly is a pest but, it turns out, its eyes could revolutionize robot vision (employed for unmanned vehicles, guided missiles, and high-speed industrial inspection robots in medical, commercial, industrial, and defense areas), improving and speeding up the detection of edges and boundaries of objects situated far beyond the capacities of traditional sensors – as is the case with tiny, moving objects. A team from the Nava ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 04:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sex Race Is Not Always Won by Aggressive Males
	The simple theory of natural selection says that the fittest males will father the next generation. But a new research published in journal PLoS One and carried out by a team at the University of Southern California shows that this is not the real case, explaining a paradox that goes from insects to humans: if the best fighters take the girls, why aren’t all males hyperaggressive? But the mating game is more than fighting. Female [ADMAR ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 04:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fly 'Borgs' May Be Spying on Us as We Speak!
	Well not really, because it's still cold outside. But just wait until summer, you'll see then; there will be flies and fly-spies all over the place, you won't be able to make the difference! Just kidding! Well, it seems that science fiction has given some 'mad' scientists new ideas, not that cybernetic implants would be something out of the ordinary our days. Nonetheless, beetles, flies, rats or even sharks could q ... [read more >>]
	10 March 2008, 12:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Fly Without Engines
	When technology advances made humans to attempt flying during the 19th century, motorized flight proved impossible as the engines of those times were too heavy. The German engineer Otto Lilienthal tackled the issue differently: he first decided to perfect the art of gliding through air, achieving the required ascendant force from the air flow passing over the plane's wings and ascendant air currents. In 1881, with a pair of curbed win ... [read more >>]
	05 January 2008, 05:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Glory Days 2 Action Replay Codes (DS)
	Glory Days 2 is mainly an airborne combat title, where gamers have to manage tactics, rescue civilians, capture enemy bunkers, in epic war stories and unforgettable battles. The game allows players to ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 15:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's the Sleeping Disease?
	We proud ourselves with the latest technological achievements, the performances of the latest computers, or newly discovered galaxies and black holes, but in the XXIst century, there are still infections against which we are defenseless and which, with all the medical advances, keep on killing millions of people every year. Poverty, war, lack of health infrastructure, immigration, trade, globalization contribute to their spread. One of ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sex War: 90% or 50% Females?
	There is a sex ratio of about 1:1 in most species, including humans, meaning that an approximately equal number of males and females are produced. For the first time, geneticists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, have discovered a genetic mechanism delivering this balanced ratio, at least valid for fruit flies, as wrote in the article published in the November issue of PLoS Biology. Wild fruit flies display the 1:1 sex ... [read more >>]
	07 November 2007, 06:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Amazing! Exciting Hidden Game in Google Earth! Flight Simulator!
	When Google released the 4.2 version of Google Earth, the fans from all around the world were absolutely amazed by the Sky function which brings a new perspective for the available imagery. As you probably heard, Google Sky allows you to analyze the starts and the galaxies straight from your computer. Soon after that, it was discovered that Google offers many more hidden functions through the downloadable mapping tool but it neve ... [read more >>]
	03 September 2007, 05:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Man Had Larvae on His Head
	In the western world, people are used mostly with parasites located in their guts. That's why when doctors looked at the weird, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas’ head, they believed it could have been from gnat bites or shingles. But when the bumps started moving, it appeared that there were five active bot fly larvae living beneath the skin atop Dallas’ head. "I’d put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought i ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Did the Largest Flying Bird Fly?
	This is the largest flying bird ever: Argentavis magnificens, having a wingspan up to 8.3 m (28 ft) and weighing up 100 kg (220 pounds). This bird resembles a condor and was somehow related with the condors and the ... storks! It inhabited the pampas of Argentina about five million years ago. Now, researchers investigating how the giant bird flew, believe it was an expert glider but was too heavy to sustain an active flight, by flappin ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2007, 05:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Free Will Found in Fruit Flies
	It seems that even microscopical brains have free will. Or at least a behavior that may hint at it, as in the case of the minute fruit fly, new findings could explain the nature and evolution of free will in humans. If researches could develop robots with free will, it "may lead to more realistic and probably even more efficient behavior, which could be decisive in truly autonomous robots needed for planetary exploration." sai ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2007, 03:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Being a Freak Pays Out!
	Being a freak has its advantages. You can appear as different, mysterious, or do what the others cannot do. Now, Professor Marla Sokolowski, a biologist at the University of Toronto Mississauga, revealed an advantage of being different. She found that the gene affecting the foraging behavior of fruit flies has two different versions: one common and another which is extremely rare. This is interesting for us as the gene is encou ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

... Avoid the River Blindness
	In some western African villages, most of the elders die blind. This is the result of onchocerciasis or river blindness provoked by the female black flies (Simulium) which transmit the disease through their bite. These flies reproduce in the fast flowing rivers. Fortunately, river blindness is not so easy to catch like other tropical diseases. It is not a menace for city dwellers nor for passing visitors. Those infected get blind o ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2007, 12:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia