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Monday, 29 April 2013




Nanowire Piezoelectric

Nanoscale Pressure Sensors Mimic Human Skin
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514131/nanoscale-pressure-sensors-mimic-human-skin/








New information on origins of Maya civilization unearthed
http://www.phenomenica.com/2013/04/new-information-on-origins-of-maya-civilization-unearthed.html




Selfish dinner date: Couple sit down to eat in the middle of a busy London road
http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/26/couple-sit-down-to-dinner-in-the-middle-of-a-busy-london-road-3668492/





Kim Jong-un looms over Big Ben (Picture: AFP/Getty)
North Korea to build replica of Big Ben in new theme park
http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/29/north-korea-to-build-replica-of-big-ben-in-theme-park-3697030/




A jigsaw creator who spent over a month making a 40,000 piece puzzle for a world record attempt has had to start again - as it collapsed just one day after he finished
Watch moment world record 40,000 part jigsaw collapses into pieces just hours after being finished
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/watch-moment-world-record-40000-1859672




Plasmodium falciparum
Parasite 'resistant to malaria drug artemisinin'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22315715





This artist's impression of a supersonic aircraft shows what the final model may look like.
Is this the son of Concorde? Boeing's supersonic passenger plane tested by Nasa

 

The flexible morephone curling up as a call is recieved
Curl power! Paper-thin phone that folds itself over to show you've got a call
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2316534/The-shape-changing-mobile-phone-curls-trembles-text.html



Real-life Atlantis: The sunken city of Heracleion, brought to life by the research team investigating the site 150ft under the sea where it now lays, including the main temple of Amun-Gerb, centre-right
3D map raises the real-life Atlantis from the deep: Scientists recreate Egyptian trading town buried for 1,200 years



Tuesday, 23 April 2013


 Tallinn believes the rise of super intelligent machines - fictionalised in The Terminator - could lead to a "sudden global ecological catastrophe".

Russian billionaire wants to create cyborgs
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/russian-billionaire-wants-to-create-cyborgs-20130402-2h3o9.html



Huge six-legged robot built in UK by enthusiast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22231365





Harpoon Pierces Man's Skull in Cleaning Accident, Doesn't Damage Brain
http://gawker.com/harpoon-pierces-mans-skull-in-cleaning-accident-doesn-476840431





Mini-robot finds surprise in Mexico's ancient Temple of Quetzalcoatl
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/22/17868392-mini-robot-finds-surprise-in-mexicos-ancient-temple-of-quetzalcoatl





Wake up and see the coffee! Talented Mike Breach creates 'baristart' by drawing famous faces in cappuccino
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/wake-up-see-coffee-talented-1849077



Argentina meteor video: Fireball explodes in sky for unplanned light show at music festival
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/argentina-meteor-video-fireball-explodes-1848486



Forever holding hands:
The Romanian Romeo and Juliet: Mystery of the young couple buried holding hands in courtyard of monastery



The coke is miraculously turned into what appears to be water by the filter
The incredible filter so powerful it turns Coca Cola into water (though you probably wouldn't want to drink it!)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2312994/The-filter-powerful-turn-Coca-Cola-water--want-drink-it.html


World's largest video game: Scientists commandeered LED lights on this Philadelphia building to play a giant version of Pong
King Pong! Watch classic video game played on the side of a skyscraper after tower's lights are transformed into NINE-STOREY high 'bats' and 20ft 'ball'





The bubble planet: Earth is surrounded by a giant magnetic bubble called the magnetosphere.
Nasa image reveals the magnetic 'bubble' that is protecting the Earth from solar particles as it speeds through space

Monday, 15 April 2013



'Sirius,' Steven Greer's Film, Claims To Unveil Tiny 'Alien' Humanoid (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/07/tiny-alien-humanoid-among_n_3017854.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular


Pyramid UFO Found on WikiSky? (PHOTO)
http://www.bubblews.com/news/378374-pyramid-ufo-found-on-wikisky-photo




The structure, which is more than 200 meters below the surface of the water, is made from rocks stacked on top of each other
Mysterious 60,000 ton stone 'grave marker' at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee baffles archaeologists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2307553/Discovery-60-000-tonne-stone-structure-the-Sea-Galilee-baffles-archaeologists.html





Back to t he future ... Leonard Nimoy as Spock in Star Trek.
Google searching for Star Trek destiny
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-searching-for-star-trek-destiny-20130415-2hucf.html





timetravel
Iranian scientist invents ‘time machine’










apollo 10
Apollo 10 Moon mission astronauts had poop problem
http://www.phenomenica.com/2013/04/apollo-10-moon-mission-astronauts-had-poop-problem.html






Unorthodox: Passenger covered in plastic bag
Passenger on jet inside a PLASTIC BAG: Orthodox Jew tries to avoid ancient religious rules
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/passenger-jet-inside-plastic-bag-1827444



The telescope would be able to observe planets that orbit stars other than the sun and enable astronomers to watch new planets and stars being formed
World's largest optical telescope gets go-ahead: 30m mirror will let astronomers  look 13 BILLION light years away
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2309334/Worlds-largest-telescope-gets-ahead-look-13-BILLION-light-years-away.html

This little girl has the whole world in her sights as she greedily eyes up a miniature planet
See the world inside a lollipop! Solar system is recreated in sweet style
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2309306/See-world-inside-lollipop-Solar-recreated-sweet-style.html




An asteroid is scouted out...
Animation released that shows how Nasa intends to CAPTURE an asteroid as potential Mars expedition looks increasingly likely


Thursday, 4 April 2013




The Hobbit Martin Freeman Tolkien ring exhibition

The Hobbit ring that may have inspired Tolkien put on show
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/02/hobbit-tolkien-ring-exhibition

 


Gate to Hell
Archaeologists have uncovered 'Pluto's Gate', an ancient gateway to Hell, in Turkey
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/news/archaeologists-have-uncovered-plutos-gate-an-ancient-gateway-to-hell-in-turkey/story-fn32891l-1226611365115


More than 300 years after its death, a pet elephant that once belonged to King Louis XIV has been attacked by a would-be ivory poacher.
King Louis XIV's pet elephant in chainsaw attack
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9964090/King-Louis-XIVs-pet-elephant-attacked-with-chainsaw.html

 
Termites are shown to be responsible for the enigmatic grass
Termites 'engineer fairy circles'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21970408

How Germany Planned to Fry the World
http://io9.com/how-germany-planned-to-fry-the-world-462891057

 

Strange Sleep Disorder Makes People See 'Demons'






sea creature landscape
Skeleton of Enormous Sea Creature Pulled out of the Water in China (Before April 1)

 

Myrtlebeachufo
'Encounters: UFO Experience' In Myrtle Beach Explores Alien Abduction, UFOs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/encounters-ufo-exhibition_n_3000276.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

 
Man with thinning hair
Male baldness 'indicates heart risk'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22014173

 








Astronomers were able to capture a black hole waking up from a decades-long slumber to feed on a low-mass object - either a brown dwarf or a giant planet - that strayed too close.
An astronomical feast: Scientists spot 'super-Jupiter' black hole wake up and eat a giant planet

 

Teen friendly: The Nokia 3210 was the first to gain widespread popularity in the playgrounds of British schools and, with the inclusion of the evergreen classic Snake, the first to incorporate video games in handsets
How many of these did you own? As mobile phone celebrates 40-year anniversary, 12 handsets that actually changed the world

 
The wise creatures can be seen curiously gazing out over the grassland from their tunnelled habitat in Southern Florida
The burrowing owls who live underground instead of in trees