Milky Way "Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images taken with 15mm fisheye lens."

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WiTricity: Wireless Power
"The power cable is the last wire to be cut in a wireless connection."

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How to Build an Invisibility Cloak: "Using strange new materials not found in nature, physicists can make an object disappear."

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Gold mine holds life untouched by the Sun: "The first known organisms that live totally independently of the sun have been discovered deep in a South African gold mine."

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Moonwalking bird!

YouTube - bird moonwalk

Another video

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Reverse Evolution: Researchers were able to reconstruct an ancient gene from two modern existing genes that had split from it some 500 million years ago!

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Time-travelling elephant visits London!


Report
BBC feature
Pictures

-K

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Most favorite Attenborough Moment: On occasion of Sir David Attenborough's 80th birthday, people were asked to vote on their favorite Attenborough moment. His encounter with the Lyrebird took the top spot for its uncanny ability to mimic sounds. The clip showed the bird imitating sounds of the camera shutter and the lens motor apart from imitating the sounds of other birds!

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Human portraits drawn by a robot: "The resulting image is individual and unpredictable. With both technical ability and the capability to recognize the characteristics of a human face, the robot hand forms his own style."

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Fibonacci Poems Multiply on the Web After Blog's Invitation

Blogs
spread
gossip
and rumor
But how about a
Rare, geeky form of poetry?

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Flashbag: USB Flash Drive whose size changes depending on the amount of data it holds. LOL, nice!

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Total Solar Eclipse of 29th March 2006: As seen from ISS.

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250 year old tortoise dies: A giant aldabra tortoise thought to be around 250 years old has died in the Kolkata zoo of liver failure.

Historical records show he was a pet of British general Robert Clive of the East India Company and had spent several years in his sprawling estate before he was brought to the zoo about 130 years ago.

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Sinister secret of snail's escape
"Snails with left-handed shells can have a big advantage in life - predators may find it impossible to eat them."

"The evolutionary question is why these left-handed forms have remained so rare - some have even gone extinct - if they escape death by crab more easily."

"At the last cricket World Cup, left-handed batsmen scored more runs, batted for longer and were more likely to bat in the top of the order than right-handers. "

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Future extinction hotspots: Researchers pinpoint the places where the world's mammals are most at risk of future fights against extinction.

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Einstein digs netnatter!



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New Animal Resembling Furry Lobster Found: "A team of American-led divers has discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday.

Scientists said the animal, which they named Kiwa hirsuta, was so distinct from other species that they created a new family and genus for it."



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Explaining Ice: The Answers Are Slippery
"The explanation once commonly dispensed in textbooks [about why ice is slippery] turns out to be wrong. And slipperiness is just one of the unanswered puzzles about ice. Besides the everyday ice that you slip on, there are about a dozen other forms, some of which experts suspect exist in the hot interior of Earth or on the surface of Pluto. Scientists expect to discover still more variations in the coming years."

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'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions
"Complex decisions are best left to your unconscious mind to work out, according to a new study, and over-thinking a problem could lead to expensive mistakes."

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MoGo Mouse
Pretty neat design.

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Going for Gold: Stamps in motion!

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Personal Rapid Transit
Here is a video mockup of the PRT in use at the MS Redmond campus and details on the proposed solution.

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Cooking an egg using a PC
He should've used an Intel chip instead of an AMD. His cooking time would've been 3 mins instead of 11 mins.

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Great British Design Quest
25 British design icons to vote on including the mini-skirt and the Verdana font.

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Thumbthing: I have been wanting one of these ever since! Actually, I would like an adjustable stand that keeps the book in front of my head as I lie on my back.

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11.13 secs: Thats the new Rubik's cube solving record!

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'Doomsday' seed bank to be built
Norway is planning to build a "doomsday vault" inside a mountain on an Arctic island to hold a seed bank of all known varieties of the world's crops.

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$11 billion judgment awarded in spam case
That's a nice chunk of money.

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Queen honors iPod designer
London-born Jonathan Ive, 38, Apple's senior vice president of design, on Friday was awarded the title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the queen.

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Can You Revive an Extinct Animal?: "The quagga was a horselike animal native to southern Africa that went extinct in 1883. Its head, neck and shoulders and sometimes the forward part of its flank were covered with stripes; the back part of its torso, its rump and legs were unstriped. An old joke among the Dutch, the first Europeans to settle in South Africa, was that the quagga was a zebra that had forgotten its pajama pants. Rau's goal, which he has been working toward for three decades, is to breed the quagga back into existence. His approach is to take zebras that look more quaggalike than the norm and mate them with one another, generation after generation, progressively erasing the stripes from the back part of their bodies."

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Ergonomic workstation



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Creating first synthetic life form: "Robert Holt, head of sequencing for the Genome Science Centre at the University of British Columbia, is leading efforts at his Vancouver lab to play a key role in the production of the first synthetic life form -- a microbe made from scratch.

The project is being spearheaded by U.S. scientist Craig Venter, who gained fame in his former job as head of Celera Genomics, which completed a privately-owned map of the human genome in 2000.

The Venter team is starting small, working to construct a simpler version of the bacteria known as Mycoplasma genitalium, a common resident of the human reproductive tract. They hope to determine the minimum number of genes required to breathe life into an organism."

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Sparrow shot dead: The shooting of a sparrow on the set of a Dutch world record domino-toppling attempt sparked outrage among animal lovers and led to threats to staff.

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After the display, its the turn of the battery to go the thin and foldable way!

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Ancient 'Godzilla'-like sea creature discovered: "A newfound ancient sea creature looks to be part crocodile, part T. rex, and 100 percent terrifying."





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