See that yellow amoeboid slime mold? It's up to something. A team of Japanese scientists at Future University Hakodate led by professor Toshiyuki Nakagaki has found evidence that physarum polycephalum -- or grape-cluster slime -- are capable of navigating.....»»

Digitizing your analog archives? Vinyl to CD / MP3 / iPod turntables might do well enough for your old 45s, but the folks at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory prefer to listen to their old beats by taking pictures of them. More specifically, restorati.....»»

?The HP TouchSmart 9300 Elite is HP`s business version of its successful TouchSmart 610 system. As such, it has a responsive touch screen, an ergonomically friendly 65-degree tilt mechanism, and a whole lot of computing power. This PC is the one to get if.....»»

Spring Roo is a robust and reliable mechanism to perform Rapid Application Development. It can surely improve the productivity without compromising the flexibility and NFRs required for an enterprise application......»»

Scientists are searching for the reasons why humans laugh, and are studying all sort of animals to figure out if other species laugh as well. It’s easy to imagine that gorillas and other monkeys would laugh when tickled, since they are some of the a.....»»

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory use high-tech 3D optical scanning technology to scan ancient discs that were previously unreadable......»»

Java 7 introduces a flexible thread synchronization mechanism called Phaser. If you need to wait for threads to arrive before you can continue or start another set of tasks, then Phaser is a good choice. Here is the listing, everything is explained step-b.....»»

In the world of science, cloud computing provides an ideal platform for crowdsourcing scientific problems across the whole world of researchers, giving them access to data sets and the computing resources to analyze them. If big data is any indicator, sci.....»»

OK, humanity isn't quite doomed, but scientists have found sharks that cross-bred with other varieties of sharks......»»

What do you do if you're IBM in the 1950s and need to market your behemoth computing machine to a conservative public? Commission a 10-minute informative short to designers Charles and Ray Eames, of course! "The Information Machine" was the result of a un.....»»

This discovery is amazing, straight out of a Jules Verne's novel: scientists from the University of Oxford, University of Southampton, the National Oceanography Centre, and the British Antarctic Survey have discovered a "lost world" thriving with unknown .....»»

Blink and you miss it: By manipulating a light beam in fibre optics, an event is masked for a 40 trillionth of a second.....»»

Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light. More ».....»»

Spiderman might soon lose his dominance in harnessing spider silk superpowers. Scientists from the University of Wyoming, the University of Notre Dame and Zhejiang University in China have genetically modified silkworms to spin stronger silk using spider .....»»

Cue lawsuit from The Wiggles in 3... 2.... Just kidding. No one sues scientists, right? Right? Courtroom drama aside, gurus from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have just uncovered what's apt to be the most germane graphene discovery in our lifetime. Or,.....»»

Taken at face value, you'd almost think that Cornell scientists had successfully bent the fabric of time. With gobs of fiber optics at their disposal, the researchers have devised a method to distort light in a way that makes events in time undetectable t.....»»

Yahoo! News - Scientists do love messing around with nature in the name of science. From glow-in-the-dark dogs and cats to cyborg rats, a great deal of scientific advances happen from seemingly bizarre experiments. The latest round of oddities are two .....»»

It's the same old story. Scientists decide to see if they can make modify a species. Next thing you know, we're being chased down the street by giant super-intelligent super soldier ants. More ».....»»

Yahoo! News - Scientists do love messing around with nature in the name of science. From glow-in-the-dark dogs and cats to cyborg rats, a great deal of scientific advances happen from seemingly bizarre experiments. The latest round of oddities ar.....»»

A giant tortoise species presumed extinct for more than 150 years is actually roaming the Galápagos islands today according to DNA evidence, scientists report. More ».....»»