Variable Speed Bullet Technology Discovered in Toys
	There are few firearms out there than can do anything else but kill. But, as you might have noticed in the last few decades, military forces around the world are constantly heading towards developing non-lethal weapons that wound or disable the individual instead of killing him. The US Army is no exception to this rule and has started funding a project that could end in the creation of the next generation of bullets that could have variabl ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wind Speed, Key Component for Climate Change During Last Ice Age
	The change in the circulation patterns of oceanic currents is likely to have been the key mechanism for the abrupt climate change that took place during the last glacial period of Earth more than 21,000 years ago. If this is indeed true, then air temperature and wind speed could have also had a significant contribution to the process. Now, researchers from the Complutense University and the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research bri ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 05:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Norton Internet Security 2009 to Come with Super High-Speed
	Symantec is one of the best security software companies on the web and this fact only forces it to bring more and more advanced technologies which would be able to protect one's important data. Because of that, Symantec is preparing to implement impressive new features in the upcoming Internet Security 2009 but, according to Rowan Trollope, senior vice president at Symantec, ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sikorsky Aircraft Adopts X2 Technology
	The importance of helicopters in air transportation services is given mainly by the advantages over airplanes, namely the capability to take off and land vertically and hover at a fixed point in the air. However, the biggest disadvantage is their speed. For example, a 12 passenger helicopter can reach a top velocity of 285 kilometers per hour, while an airplane with the same capacity can easily exceed 560 kilometers per hour. Sikorsky Airc ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 08:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Dolphins Cannot Swim Faster: It Hurts
	Dolphins are considered the fastest sea mammals. Smaller dolphins reach 35-40 km (22-25 mi) per hour, but the orca or killer whale, that is in fact the world’s largest dolphin, reaches 54 km (33 mi) per hour, which is a lot in the water. The question is: why not faster? The answer is given by a new research publi ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Search Got Sped Up on Mobile Phones
	The new flat-rate data plans from phone carriers is overwhelming, pure and simple, and it is fueling the rate at which the Internet is accessed via mobile handheld devices up to rocket speed. That has not always been the story; there was a time (which I like to refer to as "The Dark Ages") when the per-minute charging made having a phone that could access the web completely useless – nobody really used that function on ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 08:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mysterious Gravitational Pull Puzzles Astronomers
	By tracking our galaxy's movement through the vast immensity of space, astronomers found that the Milky Way is actually traveling with an excess speed of 120 kilometers per second, due to a mysterious gravitational pull exerted by an unseen body, which might be hiding away from our sight behind the galaxy's central core. The measurements were made on the remnant background microwave radiation that fills all the space ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 09:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Broadband… Need Faster Broadband…
	The broadband speed is currently on every Internet user’s top five problems list from all domains, right next to "war", "world hunger" and "finding Osama" but I couldn’t really be completely honest and tell you where it ranks for me. I guess I’m not the humanitarian soul I thought I was, I’ll tell you that. The problem a recent report made in the United Kingdom has brought to attention is that mor ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 10:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail’s Speed Is Fantastic! Yeah, on Occasion….
	Do you remember the much advertised speed that the new version of Gmail was said to be capable of unleashing into our unsuspecting midst? Flash! Thunder! Lightning! Actually something more in the terms of… Bogus! The pre-fetching of emails is there and is a very useful option if you don’t mind the prolonged waiting that you have to endure before you are able to see the inbox page. On the same note, it seems that Gmail has stepped[ADMARK ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 11:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why is Cheetah the Fastest Land Animal?
	There's nothing faster than a cheetah on the hunt. The maximum speed is of 112 km (70 mi) per hour, but the average hunting speed is still of 72-90 km (46-56 mi) per hour. No living or extinct animal runs or used to run at such speeds. How can this be possible? The cheetah is a very special cat, with specific adaptations. First, the claws of the cheetah are semiretractile (they do not retract completely into their pads, like i ... [read more >>]
	26 October 2007, 16:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Your Intelligence, Damped by Low Sugar Diets
	The low-carbohydrate diets like the Atkins or the South Beach Diet may let you still eat and lose a great deal of weight in a short time, but there are dangers lurking, like regaining faster weight after giving up the diet and gout. Now, another tricky effect has been found: these diets make you dumber! A low-carbohydrate/high-fat diet and a high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet could both increase weight loss, enhance mood and speed ... [read more >>]
	01 October 2007, 07:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube or How to Become Popular at 300 Kilometers per Hour
	More and more clips posted on the very popular video sharing platform YouTube shows insane drivers who are speeding and recording themselves to become famous. IOL reports that a motorcycle rider who created a clip with him at about 300 kilometers per hour became famous through the YouTube platform after his clip recorded an impressive audience. According to the same source, it all happened in the Austrian countryside and more spe ... [read more >>]
	27 August 2007, 10:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Fast Were the Dinosaurs? Here Are Some Top Speeds
	If a hungry T-rex chased you, you would stand no chance. The smallest dinosaurs were as fast as a racehorse, with about 40 mph (64 kilometers per hour), and even the huge Tyrannosaurus rex could outrun average people. Computer models were employed to calculate the top speeds for 5 carnivore dinosaurs. The velociraptor, a speedy and ferocious star from "Jurassic Park," could speed up to 24 mph (38 kilometers per hour), while th ... [read more >>]
	22 August 2007, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

1938 Rusted Car Found in Barn Sells for $850,000
	There are lots of old things you can find in a barn, like rusted tools, really useless pieces of equipment and appliances, even dad's rusted car that used to make him proud in his young days and is now slowly eaten away by time. But once in a while, someone stumbles on a rare collection car that's been sitting for years, an abandoned old glory that needs a mechanic's magic touch to make him a fortune. This 1938 ... [read more >>]
	30 July 2007, 09:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

SHADOW, the Army's 4X4 Hybrid Stealth Vehicle
	The Shadow Reconnaissance, Surveillance Targeting Vehicle (RST-V) is a prototype vehicle developed by General Dynamics Land Systems for the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). It looks like a heavily modified Humvee, the official US Army vehicle, because it is based on the same platform, but features a series of improvem ... [read more >>]
	28 July 2007, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Ride in the World's First Flying Car
	Remember the cartoon series "The Jetsons" where sometime in the future, everybody had flying cars that could be packed in a briefcase to avoid parking space problems? Well, a company has brought this from the far future of the cartoons to our reality. They don't know how to fit their car in a suitcase yet, but they sure can make it fly. And it looks like a flying saucer, too. The Moller M200G Volantor is a 2 pe ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First-Time Observations of Molecular Chaos
	A physics theory states that molecular chaos is an assumption that the velocities of colliding particles are uncorrelated and independent of position. Also called collision number hypothesis, it is useful in making numerous calculations tractable, but so far no one was able to experimentally prove it. Air in any room is a good example of this theory, because the temperature in the room prevents nitrogen and oxygen atoms from ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 09:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

15 Gbps Wireless Data Transfer Device
	New research provides extremely broad bandwidth and could bring the next generation of wireless data connections that will transfer a 4.7 GB DVD in just a few seconds. This new product will finally get us rid of the tangle of wires that lurk under the desk. Scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at Georgia Tech used extremely high radio frequencies (RF) to obtain the most impressive wireless data-transfer ... [read more >>]
	20 July 2007, 08:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Laser Can Study Rare Isotopes Traveling at One-Third the Speed of Light
	When cruising in your car, a police laser radar can easily measure your speed and send the ticket to your door, probably along with a picture showing your big grin at 160 km/h (100 mph). But when it comes to observing particles traveling at 1/3 the speed of light – 100,000 km/s – things get a bit complicated. Even the most modern lasers are having difficulties in making highly precise in-flight distance measurements on the nan ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2007, 11:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Four Months in Prison for a YouTube Clip
	An 18-year-old teenager has been sentenced to 4 months in prison after he filmed himself driving with approximately 120 miles per hour and posted the clips on the popular online video sharing service YouTube. The recordings were made with a cellphone and were created on a quite busy motorway from Fenwick Street, Burnley. According to The Daily Mail, the teenager was driving a Toyota MR 2 sports car that was actually belonging to ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2007, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Fat Must a Human Be to Stop a Speeding Bullet?
	This may be a question not many people have asked themselves, and it may sound crazy, too. But in theory, if a human being were covered in a layer of fat thick enough, a bullet could be stopped from reaching vital parts of the body. The Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge really performed such a test for The Naked Scientist website, where they attempted to calculate exactly how fat should a man, or woman, be in ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2007, 06:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Future Cars Could Have "Reflexes" and Avoid Accidents
	Many of today's cars are equipped with state-of-the-art driver assist technologies, like cruise control, anti-lock brakes, automatic transmission and adaptive headlights, designed to do things beyond the natural abilities of human drivers, thus relieving him of some manual operations during complex driving situations. A more complex type of driver assist technology is currently being researched at IBM, aiming to give the ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2007, 09:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Small Penises and Fast Driving
	We all understood that men with minute penises employ huge cars to compensate for their lack. But now "Young men who speed do so because they have a small penis" is the slogan of a new road safety campaign triggered by Road and Traffic Authority in Australia. The $1.9 million campaign is targeting speeding among 17- to 25-year-olds and it encourages people who see speeding male drivers to wiggle their pinkie fingers ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Powerful Is a Boxing Champion's Fist? It's Like Being Hit By a Horse at Full Speed
	The impact force has the greatest effect when it's applied over a short time period and it is equal to the mass of the hitting object times the acceleration. This means that a stone weighing one kilogram (2.2 pounds) moving at 50 m/s (1600 ft/s) will have the same impact force as a 10 grams rock moving at 500 m/s. A team of engineers at the University of Manchester tested the impact force of a boxer, to see if it's ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Avoid Being Struck by Lightning
	You've probably heard than when a lightning storm catches you on open ground, you shouldn't take cover under a tree. That's true. Since lighting often strikes the highest spot in an area, ducking below a tall tree is definitely not a good idea, since you'll probably be struck in the same time. If you're caught in an open area, with no places to take cover (a lonely wooden tool shed is not recommended) you are t ... [read more >>]
	25 June 2007, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Are Fundamental Constants Really Constant?
	c, G, π, all three are fundamental constants that rule the very existence of our universe. The first represents the speed of light, exactly 299,792,458 meters per second, the second is the gravitational constant, equal to 6.67300 × 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2, and the third is pi, approximately equal to 3.14159, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry. Beginning with Paul Dirac in 1937, ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2007, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Next Generation of Jet Airplanes Could Travel at Mach 10
	So far, the only commercially successful supersonic jet was the Concorde, that regularly flew from London and Paris to New York and Washington. It set many records, including circumnavigating the world in a time of 31 hours 27 minutes 49 seconds flight, on August 16, 1995. Although for the moment there are no immediate plans for new supersonic aircrafts after the retiring of the Concorde, the next generation of airliners coul ... [read more >>]
	18 June 2007, 16:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Astronomers Discovered Jets of Matter Traveling through Space at Nearly the Speed of Light
	In a vacuum, light travels at a speed of nearly 300,000 km/s (186,282 mi/s) and it's generally believed that matter cannot exceed this speed. Recently, astronomers discovered matter traveling at more than 99.999% the speed of light. It's the fastest speed ever recorded in the case of matter in the universe, and it has been achieved by jets of material shooting out of dying stars. Massive stars eventually run of hydr ... [read more >>]
	14 June 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Drive the World's Fastest Motorcycle
	Wanna know what's the fastest motorbike? Well, it's the Dodge Tomahawk, a prototype with an unusual design, featuring the 500 hp (373 kW) 8.3 L V10 engine from the Dodge Viper. The motorcycle has two front wheels and two rear wheels to aid in turning and stability at highest rate of speed. There's only one problem. This motorcycle cannot be legally driven on public roads. According to a Chrysler official, it w ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 11:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Supermassive Black Holes Found to Spin at Nearly the Speed of Light
	A black hole is an object with a gravitational field so powerful that a region of space becomes cut off from the rest of the universe – no matter if radiation (including light) that has entered the region can ever escape. Since a black hole is defined as an object from which light cannot escape, nothing else can escape because nothing can exceed the speed of light. Even if one could exceed the speed of light, escape from with ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2007, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Next Generation High-Speed Japanese Train Is Going Green
	High-speed trains have always been admired for their comfort, noise reduction, ride quality and of course, their speed. But the next generation of Japanese high-speed trains is not only designed to provide all that, it was also built to consume less energy, and thereby be more environmentally-friendly. The new train is called N700 and it's a further evolution of the Series 700, to create the fastest high-tech train for the Tokaido ... [read more >>]
	25 May 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Horse Records
	The largest horses in the world are those of the English breed Shire. These horses often bypass the height of 1.8 m (6 ft) and reach in weight one tone (almost as much as a rhino, to which horses and their relatives, donkeys and zebras, are related). Average horses have 0.3-0.4 tones. These draft horses are generally tame and due to their enormous size, they generate a huge power: they can drag up to 5 tones and in some areas, they ar ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2007, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Sail in the World's Biggest Yacht
	The yacht has become, in recent years, the ultimate expression of wealth and power. It seems that you can't be in The Forbes 400 top of the richest people on the planet without owning a kick-a** yacht, or was it the other way around? Originally, it was defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries, but later it came t ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2007, 03:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Can a Formula 1 Car Drive Upside Down and Defy Gravity?
	Many car enthusiasts or Formula One fans around the world have heard the statement: ‘A Formula 1 car can drive upside down without falling.’ Is it true? And if yes, how do they do it? If you thought abound the car's aerodynamics, you were right, but let's see exactly what are the equipments and the conditions to make this happen. First, let's take a look at a plane. The wing of an airplane produces lifting force. ... [read more >>]
	17 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does The Dragster Work
	The Dragster is a modified automobile, purpose built for Drag Racing. It can be a heavily modified already existent vehicle, or it can be custom made according to race specifications. Drag racing is a parallel sprint race, for a distance of 300 meters, the classical "quarter mile." These supercars can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph (0-100 km/h) in 1 second, before rapidly breaking. The whole ... [read more >>]
	11 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How To Drive in the World's Strangest SUV?
	The name is Spyker D12 Paris-to-Pekin. There's no typo here, that's the real name of the car. One point for weirdness. She's a strange looking car, the design looking more like a combination between a coupe, a muscle-car and a taller station-wagon. Probably not many of you have heard of the name Spyker. Its history mixes with that of the aviation industry in 1914 and it's probably the most individualistic car ma ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Ride in the World's Fastest Car
	The car enthusiasts will probably say: "Of course we know, it's the Bugatti Veyron, with her 1001 hp and 253 mph (407 km/h)" Wrong! Although a monster of the roads and a technological wonder, the really cool Veyron will no longer be the fastest street-legal car in the world, when a new supercar will enter production, presumably in 2007. The name is Barabus TKR (not the German tuner Brabus), and she has ... [read more >>]
	04 May 2007, 17:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Increase YouTube's Loading Speed
	SpeedBit, the famous creator of Download Accelerator Plus, managed to design a new application able to increase the YouTube loading speed and accelerate your clips. SpeedBit Video Accelerator is available for free and is currently downloadable as a beta version. The product works quite simple and it is based on the connection made between your computer and the YouTube server, trying to use the same principle as the download manag ... [read more >>]
	03 May 2007, 14:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virtual Reality Helps MS and Parkinson Patients Walk
	The latest technological development is put to good use in medicine and helps patients that suffer from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease improve their walk speed and distance. The device, developed by Technion-Israel Institute of Technology scientists, combines audio and visual feedback to improve the patients' reactions and overall stride length. For the auditory signals, it uses a device simila ... [read more >>]
	01 May 2007, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A New World Record for Train Speed
	A new world speed record for a train on rails is to be established on Tuesday by French TGV. Organizers will intend to reach at least 560 km (350 mi) per hour on a 73 kilometer (45.3 mile) stretch between Paris and the eastern city of Strasbourg. The new Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) would “depasse” a 17-year-old record of 515.3 km (320.2 mi) per hour, set by an elder version of the TGV. The novel model, part of a 30 million eur ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2007, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Need for Speed: Most Wanted Cheats, Tips and Tricks (Xbox)
	Wake up to the smell of burnt asphalt as the thrill of illicit street racing spreads in the air. From the makers of the hit Need for Speed Underground series that has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, Need for Speed Most Wanted challenges you to become the m ... [read more >>]
	29 March 2007, 03:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does a Jet Truck Work?
	What happens when you mix a truck with a jet fighter? It's called Shockwave, a triple jet-engine truck on a 260-inch (660-cm) wheelbase, and it holds the Guinness record for jet-truck speed at 376 miles per hour (605 kph). Driving on a runway, Shockwave races airplanes that are flying above it at 300 miles per hour. It uses three Pratt & Whitney J34-48 engines, also used in the U.S. Navy's T2A Buckeye plane. ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2007, 11:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Speedster Biker Discovered on YouTube
	It seems like the police will hire some experts to view all the movies published on YouTube very soon, because more and more interesting cases are discovered through the clips published on Google’s online video sharing service. Today, BBC informs that a 34-year-old Edinburgh man driving with almost 170mph was the subject of the recently uploaded clip that caught the authorities’ attention. The biker was riding a Yamaha R1 and was ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2007, 07:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Need for Speed: Underground Cheats and Secrets (Xbox)
	Need for Speed Underground lets racers live out the fantasy of turning everyday cars into tricked-out racing machines. Either alone or with a friend, players race their customized cars through city streets and push their driving skills to the limit. Here are the ... [read more >>]
	08 March 2007, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Records of Bird Migration
	65 % of the bird species migrate. The ancients, like Aristotle for example, thought that during the winter birds go inside the mud of the bottom of the swamps or in caves, where they pass the winter, and reemerge in the spring. In the 13th century, the German emperor Frederick the Second, passionate hunter, was the first to suppose they effectuate journeys to the warmer southern lands during the winter. Some species make very short dis ... [read more >>]
	06 March 2007, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia