Some stories from the world
T-shirt plays air guitar
It could make an ideal Christmas present in years to come. Australian scientists have built a t-shirt that lets you play “air guitar” for real.
Toddlers learn life skills from books
Toddlers can re-enact what they see, hear and learn from picture books, new research shows.
New life for old probes
For scientists planning a trio of new space missions, the hard part already is over: The probes are safely in space.
Dolphin with legs found
Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.
Greenhouse gasses rising again
The industrialized world’s emissions of greenhouse gasses are growing again, despite efforts under the Kyoto Protocol to cap them and stave off global warming, the United Nations reported Monday.
Titan’s atmosphere targeted for study
Scientists studying the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon, Titan, hope their research will reveal clues about the nature of Earth’s atmosphere billions of years ago.
Topless skull confirms earliest autopsy
The earliest confirmed autopsy in North America was conducted more than 400 years ago by French colonists desperate to determine what was killing them as they endured a rugged winter on St. Croix Island, scientists concluded.
Politics: All in the family?
Politics may not be in the blood, but it could be in the genes. That’s the theory a team of political scientists and geneticists is trying to prove with extensive studies of twins, genes and brain scans.
Ghosts and vampires nixed by science
Spooked by ghosts? Scared of vampires? No need to fear, say scientists who have applied the laws of physics and math to disprove such frightening phenomena, although they concede there could be a kernel of scientific truth to stories about zombies.
Silent aircraft design complete
A U.S.-British team of researchers from academia and the aerospace industry believes the passenger aircraft of the distant future will not only be fuel efficient, but virtually silent.
Hudson Bay could hold giant crater
Lessons being learned from massive impact craters on Earth and beyond could help settle the question of whether such a crater exists in the eastern Hudson Bay.
Germany weighs war crimes case against Rumsfeld
CSIRO wins landmark legal battle
The CSIRO has won a landmark US legal battle against Buffalo Technology, under which it could receive royalties from every producer of wireless local area network (WLAN) products worldwide.
Zune is no iPod killer
“Zune has too many compromises and missing features to be as good a choice as the iPod for most users. The hardware feels rushed and incomplete. It is 60 per cent larger and 17 per cent heavier than the comparable iPod.”
