Category Archives: News

Satellite cameras could be used for facial recognition

Photos from surveillance cameras, YouTube and Facebook could be used for forensic investigatons.

Filed under Forensics, Innovation, News, Science, Technology

Amasia, the new supercontinent

All of Earth’s current continents will form Amasia, a single landmass, in 50 to 200 million years time.

Filed under Geology, News, Palaeontology, Science, Video

Sweet, sweet medicine

Sweet news for those looking for an alternative to customary medicinal antibiotics. Honey, an ancient remedy for the treatment of infected wounds, has recently been rediscovered by the medical community.

Filed under Health, Medicine, News, Science

A few steps closer to Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak

Now you see it… science can make things invisible.

Filed under Innovation, Nanotechnology, News, Physics, Science, Technology

From South America with love

6,700 years ago popcorn irrupted as a popular snack.

Filed under Archaeology, Culture, History, News

From words to sentences

Our brain uses two distinct neural pathways to divide the tasks of comprehending and producing language.

Filed under Innovation, News, Science

A Darwinian approach towards emotions?

Emotions are not as biologically “basic” as we might think.

Filed under Medicine, News, Science

Discovery of “God particle”

Scientists believe that they may have caught their first glimpse of the Higgs Boson, or “God particle”, a subatomic unit that is a vital factor in science’s understanding of the universe.

Filed under Arts & Science, News, Physics, Science, Technology

Hormone injections improve the memory

Treatment with IGF-II could significantly improve memory.

Filed under Chemistry, Genetics, Health, Innovation, News

Total lunar eclipse guide December 2011

Lunar eclipses are safe to watch, and you’ll have the chance to see one on December 10-11, 2011.

Filed under In the mag, News, Night Sky, Space