Now you see it: Best visual illusions of 2009
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-2 20:46)
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The Visual Illusion of the Year contest features dozens of illusions. See some of this year's best entriesimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4756310/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Now you see it: Best visual illusions of 2009link=http://www.newscientist.com/special/best-new-visual-illusions?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Now you see it: Best visual illusions of 2009link=http://www.newscientist.com/special/best-new-visual-illusions?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/40960499597/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/74801936/a2.htm"img src="http://da.fe ...
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The doomed quest for the North-West Passage
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-2 20:16)
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The obsession with finding the North-West Passage, a short-cut from the North Atlantic to the Pacific, claimed hundreds of lives. A new exhibition tells their storiesimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/474d718/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=The doomed quest for the North-West Passagelink=http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17156-northwest-passage" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The doomed quest for the North-West Passagelink=http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17156-northwest-passage" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/40960499596/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/74766104/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsp ...
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Temple timbers trace collapse of Mayan culture
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-2 18:51)
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Timber use in an abandoned city provides first direct evidence that the Mayans ran out of wood as they overexploited the environmentimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4747b14/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Temple timbers trace collapse of Mayan culturelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227104.400-temple-timbers-trace-collapse-of-mayan-culture.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Temple timbers trace collapse of Mayan culturelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227104.400-temple-timbers-trace-collapse-of-mayan-culture.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divb ...
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from Robot Watch
(2009-6-2 15:21)
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Gallery: The final mission to repair Hubble
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-2 6:00)
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The space shuttle Atlantis is on its way back to its home base in Florida after a historic trip to repair the Hubble Space Telescopendash; see the best images from the 13-day missionimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4727fe5/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Gallery: The final mission to repair Hubblelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17230-gallery-the-final-mission-to-repair-hubble.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Gallery: The final mission to repair Hubblelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17230-gallery-the-final-mission-to-repair-hubble.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0 ...
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Were our earliest hominid ancestors European?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-2 6:00)
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A 12-million-year-old fossil from Spain suggests that hominids migrated into Africa before the evolution of modern humansimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4727fe7/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Were our earliest hominid ancestors European?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17225-were-our-earliest-hominid-ancestors-european.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Were our earliest hominid ancestors European?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17225-were-our-earliest-hominid-ancestors-european.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedspor ...
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TV-watching tots miss out on vital chat
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-2 5:00)
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Buying some time to do the chores by sticking infants in front of the television may be harming their cognitive development, researchers sayimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4725fb3/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=TV-watching tots miss out on vital chatlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17227-tvwatching-tots-miss-out-on-vital-chat.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=TV-watching tots miss out on vital chatlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17227-tvwatching-tots-miss-out-on-vital-chat.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.c ...
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Rules of high seas could lead to Arctic 'pole of peace'
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-2 2:31)
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Individual countries have begun staking claims over the parts of the Arcticndash; but under marine law, a large chunk of it is effectively beyond national controlimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/471f13c/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Rules of high seas could lead to Arctic 'pole of peace'link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17229" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Rules of high seas could lead to Arctic 'pole of peace'link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17229" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/40960453982/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/74576188/kg/25/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/ ...
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Instant sex change served up by video software
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-2 2:27)
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Video conferences could become more interesting with software that can instantly alter a person's sex or raceimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/471ed04/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Instant sex change served up by video softwarelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17226-instant-sex-change-served-up-by-video-software.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Instant sex change served up by video softwarelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17226-instant-sex-change-served-up-by-video-software.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.co ...
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Why is the Earth moving away from the sun?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-2 2:22)
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Every year, the Earth and sun move 15 centimetres farther apartndash; the culprit may be small tides raised on the sun by our home planetimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/471ed05/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Why is the Earth moving away from the sun?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17228-why-is-the-earth-moving-away-from-the-sun.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Why is the Earth moving away from the sun?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17228-why-is-the-earth-moving-away-from-the-sun.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feed ...
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