Science & Technology
Alzheimer’s disease prevention: vitamins and fish protect the brain from ageing
A new research suggests that a diet rich in vitamins and fish may protect the brain from ageing while junk food has the opposite...
Men actually prefer brunettes, as being more attractive and inteligent than blondes
While men are more likely to chat up a fair-haired lady on a night out, they actually find brunettes more attractive, a study has...
Apple and Google will introduce touch and facial recognition systems instead of using paswords
Many people find themselves locked out of their accounts for hours as suffer from what the internet has coined “passworditis” - forgetting a password. In...
Twitter crashed last night due to more than 16,000 New Year tweets a second
Twitter ground to a halt on the last day of 2011 as it was overloaded with New Year messages. In UK, the social network crashed...
NASA’s twin Grail-A entered the Moon orbit
NASA has succeeded in putting the first of twin gravity mapping satellites (Gravity Recovery and Internal Laboratories) in orbit around the Moon. The Grail-A spacecraft...
Dinosaurs could be recreated from birds DNA
Jack Horner, the technical adviser on Jurassic Park and professor of palaeontology at Montana State University, is hoping to use living birds to hatch...
New evidence shows that Christopher Columbus did bring syphilis back to Europe
After Europe hailed his discovery of the Americas in the 15th century, Christopher Columbus was blamed for introducing syphilis to Old World. However, several reports...
Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar created at John Hopkins University proposes every year identical
Scientists from John Hopkins University in Baltimore have designed a new, leap-year-free calendar, which makes birthdays, holidays and Christmas to fall on the same...
A sea creature that lights up when touched was found in British waters
A sea creature that lights up when touched - was one of several rare and elusive species captured by Scottish marine surveys this year. The...
Soyuz rocket is back in service, 5 days after a failed launch
The Russian Soyuz rocket system has been pressed back into service, five days after a failed launch. The vehicle successfully put six spacecraft in orbit...
US government tracks people using “sensitive” words on Twitter, Facebook and blogs
An online privacy group says that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning...
A solar storm will produce radio blockouts over the next three days
Particles from a recent solar storm will slam today into Earth and produce amazing Northern Lights, or auroras. On the downside, experts expect radio...
How to lose 2in from waistline in 8 weeks by increasing the proportion of protein in your diet
Dieters can trim two inches from their waistlines in only eight weeks by increasing the proportion of protein they eat and cutting back on...
Noah Kravitz has been sued by his former employer for taking Twitter followers when he left his job
Noah Kravitz's former employer, Phonedog, want him to hand back his Twitter following when he left the company. The landmark case opens up legal questions over...
All GSM mobile phones are vulnerable to hackers attack
The GSM network, known as the “normal” mobile phone network, accounts for 80% of the global mobile market and is used by 4 billion...
Facebook turns its users into company sponsors
A Facebook update will make users to become unwitting corporate ambassadors under plans by the company to allow the site's main news feed to...
Taking multi-vitamin pills is a waste of money as they do nothing for health, a new study found
The multi-vitamin pills are taken daily by millions of people in the world, hoping to ward off ill-health. However, a major study showed that the...
Anonymous hacked thousands of credit cards numbers from Stratfor and made Christmas charity
Anonymous, the hacking group, claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.-based security...
Apple will use hydrogen batteries that could last for weeks on its products
Apple hopes to use hydrogen cells to produce lighter batteries that could last for weeks on its products. Apple is staying on the cutting edge...
Sugary snacks ease the painful gut-busting during the holidays
Norwegian researchers have discovered a cure to ease that painful gut-busting feeling brought on by over indulging during the holidays and without cutting down...
Breakthrough in dentistry: painless plasma brush could be available in 2 years
A new painless cavity drill is set to hit dentists' surgeries in two years, scientists from University of Missouri and the technology company Nanova...
NORAD Santa Tracker shows in real time how far is Saint Nick from your town
Children and parents across the world can see just how far Santa and his reindeer are from their homes, thanks to a “Santa Tracker”...
Unidentified metallic spaceball crashed to Earth in Namibia
A strange metal sphere that looks like a prop from a science fiction film fell to the ground in a remote area of northern...
SF movies gadgets could soon become reality
The gadgets that we're used to seeing in science fiction films could soon become a thing of reality as researchers develop new technology to...
LHC detector Atlas captured a new particle, Chi b, which is not Higgs boson
Large Hadron Collider’s detector Atlas captured a particle that physicists had suspected to exist for years, but had never seen “in the wild”. The Chi...
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