Jun 18 2008
The startling reaction between Diet Coke and Mentos sweets, made famous in thousands of YouTube videos, finally has a scientific explanation. A study in the US has identified the prime factors that drive the fizzy plumes from Coke bottles: the roughness...
Jun 16 2008
Mozilla powered social web browser, Flock has released a new beta version of Flock 2.0 for early adopters and bug hunters. So far, Flock was using Firefox 2’s code under the hood, so it didn’t include all the performance and security improvements...
Jun 16 2008
Not exactly washing without water, but with less than 2% of a normal washing machine. That’s only 1 cup of water for those sweaty gym clothes, grubby kid-wear, and foul socks.Washing with soap and water has been THE WAY to clean most clothes for so...
Jun 16 2008
Steve Ballmer announced early Monday that Microsoft would be halting development on Internet Explorer 8 and focusing the company’s efforts on Firefox 3.
Jun 16 2008
An expensive toy for the weekend aviator: The ICON A5, just launced by Icon Aircraft, is a foldable sport plane that can be stored in a home garage and loaded on a trailer to the water or a runway to launch.
Jun 14 2008
MIT researchers unravel bacteria communication pathways CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — MIT researchers have figured out how bacteria ensure that they respond correctly to hundreds of incoming signals from their environment. The researchers also...
Jun 14 2008
The HoloVizio 3-D screen uses a display technology based upon voxels instead of pixels. As a result objects seen from different positions wiil show up in a different perspective with no need for goggles or other stereoscopic tricks. Moreover gesture...
Jun 13 2008
Mercer Consulting’s annual roundup of the global cities with the best quality of life is here, and Zurich once again comes out on top. The best place in the U.S.? Honolulu at No. 28. New York, London, and Paris are internationally renowned cities...
Jun 13 2008
The problem with to-do lists and schedules is that you need to fill them out. Now, a new generation of free online schedulers promises to end that drudgery. These new Web applications use natural-language processing to interpret spoken commands and...
Jun 12 2008
Four billion years ago, modern cells were absent on our still-young planet. The simple protocells that are thought to have given rise to Earth’s earliest life forms were plentiful, but likely no more than a bit of genetic material surrounded by a...