Sahara Took 3,000 Years to Form
	Today, Sahara is a huge desert area, with erratic dunes (ergs) and plains covered by rugged rocks (hamada), punctuated by mountains with heights of up to 3,400 m (11,000 ft), covering 8.8 million square kilometers (3.3 million square miles), a surface bigger than that of Australia. At great distances one from another, one can find modest bursts of life, the oases. This desert is supposed to be at least 2.5 million years old. During the las ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 05:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

In China, Rain Comes When Beijing Says So!
	When the rain dance fails, turn to cloud seeding, say the Chinese officials. With the imminent approach of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is seriously taking into consideration the use of technology to clear pollution in the city and inhibit the rain from falling from the sky when it is not required, which basically means total weather control, a feat of engineering never attempted before by man. According to international reports, China has i ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Anycall F258 Brings Rain
	Samsung just released one of its latest music phones, Samsung Anycall MusiCall F258, a pretty little slider that brings lots of features to users who mainly want music capabilities from a cell phone. The new handset is specially designed for the fans of Rain. And ... [read more >>]
	16 February 2008, 04:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Gene Kelly Didn't Dance with His iPod in the Rain
	Since the day was coming to an end, I thought why not hit Apple Discussions to see what iPod/iPhone users have been at lately. A laugh is always g ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 11:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Meet the Mighty Rain Harvester!
	Oh no... it's starting again! I mean I like all these energy converting devices that try to harness the full potential power resulted during a natural physical process, but what's enough is enough. I know the universe is all about energy and all the different ways it is converted, but all the trouble one has to go through to collect just 12 milliwatts of energy out of a water droplet is too much. Imagine trying to optimize this b ... [read more >>]
	22 January 2008, 10:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pop Singer Website Hacked!
	Many of you haven’t even heard of Rain, the Korean artist who sings numerous hits in Asia and attracted lots of fans. But what's interesting is that his website was hacked and more importantly, it was modified to host a money mule fraud attempt as the folks at F-Secure wrote on the official blog of the company today. It seems like the design used by the hackers on the malicious "Rain" website is implemented into so ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Are Acid Rains?
	Many acids result from the combination of a nonmetal oxide with water. Water can be found in nature, the oxides can be dumped by human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels. This is how acid rains result: rains filled with acids. The main causes are the nitrogen and sulfur oxides, that give nitric and sulfuric acids, the most powerful known acids. There are also some natural sources for acid rains, like volcanic eruptions ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Your Most Powerful Music PC: The Nimbus With Intel Core 2 Quad From Rain Recording
	There is music and there is music. Of course, this music has to be recorded somewhere and processed by someone before you buy the CD. Now, as today's audio is getting more and more complex, with highly-advanced processing and most subtle sound effects, it would take months to have your album ready with yesterday's PCs. This is why a company like the UK-based Rain Recoding has decided to offer you what's best in ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2007, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Global Warming Means in Fact More Rain
	Many people are afraid that the global warming will turn many areas into deserts, besides flooding low areas and melting the mountain glaciers and polar ice caps. But a new analysis of 20 years of satellite data shows that rising temperatures will bring in fact more rainfall, challenging classic climate model concepts and could help researchers forecast with greater accuracy dramatic weather events like El Niño. It has been known f ... [read more >>]
	01 June 2007, 08:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Driest Place on Earth: the Atacama Desert
	The Atacama Desert is located in northern Chile and reaches a small part of southern Peru (South America), climbing up to 3,200 m (10,670 ft) altitude on an area of 181,300 square km (72,500 square mi). It spreads like a rather narrow stretch between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains over a distance of 960 km (600 mi) off the both sides of the Tropic of Capricorn, presenting strong contrasts: stony hills, volcanic rocks and sand du ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2007, 11:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Twilight Umbrellas
	The Twilight Umbrella is definitely not the type of umbrella you often forget at home. If you leave in a hurry for work, there's no way you could miss its built-in tiny lights. An umbrella that sparks, how's that for visual stimuli, eh? You can choose from two flavours: one is black and studded with plenty of tiny blue fiber optic lights, while the other one is, well, also a black model that comes with stars that tw ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2007, 11:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Amazing Spring
	Spring in the temperate areas is the time when a cycle interrupted by the winter is restarted. Many people are worried by the fact that the extremely warm winters – due to the current man made global warming – could make trees bloom in January or February. But this is not going to happen, as plants and most animals respect an inner calendar. That means that not only light and temperature count, but also the running of a certain time pe ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2007, 11:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Vista Rain
	Now, I have been telling you about what Rain Recordings are up to on the face of the Earth: they're sworn to keep on producing the coolest and the most efficient recording equipment when it comes to PC, whether we're into laptop or desktop systems. This time, Rain outdid themselves and stepped boldly forward with a Quad-core based workstation, the Element Pro promises to lead on the heritage of the Element series. Run ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2007, 11:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia