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The Google Earth application has had some impressive success over the last period. The Mountain View company has brought its product a number of important upgrades, which made feature more options for its users. We have also seen Google Earth being used as a rescue tool providing satellite imagery of the recently aff... |
22 May 2008
10:50 GMT |
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Astronomer Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, revealed in an interview published yesterday that the Vatican believed that alien life might exist and that it didn't necessarily mean it contradicted the belief in God. Makes you remember the cheerful days of the middle ages, doesn't ... |
14 May 2008
09:48 GMT |
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If moving to Dundee, Scotland, was not on your priority list, things could change starting now. If you are a gamer, that is. And still in school. Because a really interesting project started by Learning and Teaching Scotland took place for 10 weeks and proved that video games are far from being a mindless waste of ti... |
14 March 2008
04:59 GMT |
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We've stumbled upon yet another piece of evidence that, instead of turning us into snobs, Macs "bring science down to Earth" for everyone to understand and appreciate. Recent Apple Science news say that when producers at the American Museum of Natural History needed a next-gen environment to create high-definiti... |
21 February 2008
03:28 GMT |
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It seems that scientists are not only interested in researches that prove how bad video games are for your body, mind and soul. Some of them actually appreciate the video consoles (OK, not the games) and start using their power to conduct very important scientific researches. Yes, I said "important", not those resear... |
18 February 2008
06:33 GMT |
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There is some ridiculous trying to show that science does cope with religion. But the result is a bogus science. Real science is not based on predetermined facts. And scientists indeed are less religious than the general population, as revealed by a new research, but the cause has little to do with science itself or ... |
2 July 2007
02:47 GMT |
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So far, scientists haven't found a way to talk to the faithful about science: is the goal to teach science or to discredit religion? Can the two worldviews ever enrich each other? Is there a middle-ground between the two?Lawrence M. Krauss is a physicist, an Ambrose Swasey Professor and director of the Center f... |
18 June 2007
04:23 GMT |
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1 - Men think about sex every seven seconds.Males are driven to reproduce, evolutionarily speaking, but there is no scientific way of measuring to what extent that desire consumes their everyday lives. Thankfully, for world productivity as a whole, seven seconds seems a gross overstatement, as best researchers can t... |
14 April 2007
05:30 GMT |
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It's the trunk which makes the elephant so likable for most people. No wonder two scientists are working on a new handy trunk-device (well, that's not their only purpose, maybe they want people to like them too). Benjamin Eimer and Lawrence Taylor, both of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, US, thoug... |
20 March 2007
04:08 GMT |
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Just about when I was going to buy a new hard drive, I came across this news article about the reliability of Mean time between failures (MTBF), as being given by the hard drive manufacturers. It's an independent study made by the Computer Science Department at the Carnegie Mellon University. They have taken inf... |
12 March 2007
09:45 GMT |
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