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It turns out peaceful thoughts really can influence our bodies, right down to the instructions we receive from our DNA, according to a new study.
Researchers for the study, published in the Public Library of Science, took blood samples from a group of...
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The tour de France 2008 can be followed on Google Maps with panoramic images of the route provided by the Street View feature.
Apple’s new iPhone 3G will be shipped on July 11 in a potato starch paper tray. Apple placed an order with Dutch company PaperFoam, which also makes packages for Motorola.
ScienceDaily (June 16, 2008) — First universal theory of humour answers how and why we find things funny. Published June 12, The Pattern Recognition Theory of Humour by Alastair Clarke answers the centuries old question of what is humour. Clarke...
As a special present for the upcoming Tour de France, Google added Street View imagery for Tour de France’s routes. The coverage is really limited, but Google will extend it in the next months, when Street View will be available in many European...
An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex — the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking — connect and...
Research identifies the reason humor is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and its continuing importance in the cognitive development of infants [...]
Alastair Clarke explains: “The theory is an...
Supermarket bosses have recalled red Mexican grapes from all their stores after a deadly black widow spider was found in a bunch.
Waitrose pulled the fruit from shelves in case other spiders had entered the country in the same consignment.
The black...
AS IF unsolicited sales calls weren’t bad enough, now you can be subjected to spit too, or “spam over internet telephony” messages. To make matters worse, current deterrents may be useless.
Spit is particularly annoying because a call...
Fewer astronauts, more robots. That’s the call from three European aerospace engineers, who argue that crewed satellite repair missions - like the ones flown by NASA to fix the ailing Hubble Space Telescope - are expensive, wasteful and set the...
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