“Ancient Mummies Show Signs of Heart Disease”
Hm… maybe the sign of the Golden Pyramids was just as bad for you as the Golden Arches. 😉
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“Tiny Insect Brains Solve Big Problems”
I’ve long suspected that brains don’t have to be human-sized for intelligence.
“Can Science Beat the Doomsday Hype?”
Short answer: not bloody likely. At least not in my lifetime.
“Security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet”
The last paragraph is particularly heartening: FireEye researchers said the key to dismantling the giant ring was a coordinated effort that worked in multiple directions all at once so that bot herders didn’t have a chance to counteract. “As it turns out, no matter how many fallback mechanisms are in place, if they aren’t all …
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“Natural Super Glue Found on Asparagus Spears”
Now there’s a food that’ll really stick to your ribs! 😉
“Swedish cyborg gets haptic hand”
Major improvements in haptic technology. (You know, it seems that six million dollars wouldn’t buy all that much, these days… 😉 )
“Fractal weather”
It seems that weather isn’t quite as complex (or as unpredictable) as scientists thought. (You may not realize it, but it was a weather simulation on an early personal computer that led to the idea of chaos theory — popularly known as the “butterfly effect” — which most scientists believed that weather followed for the …
“Boffins working on biodegradable flexi LED implants”
Hm… a Dick Tracy video-phone watch built into your wrist, anyone?
“TV admits it was wrong about PVRs”
Will wonders never cease?
“Xerox hopes to print computing smarts on fabric, plastic”
It might give new meaning to the phrase “wearable computer.” Though the manufacturers had better be careful where they put the heat-sink. 😉