Experimental Xerox Paper Erases Itself, Results In Temporary Documents On Reusable Paper

Xerox Corporation scientists have invented a way to make prints whose images last only a day, so that the paper can be used again and again. The technology, which is still in a preliminary state, blurs the line between paper documents and digital displays and could ultimately lead to a significant reduction in paper use.
The [...]

Tips for Handling Telemarketers

Three Little Words That Work!!
(1)The three little words are: ‘Hold On, Please…’
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
< BR>Then when you eventually hear the phone company’s ‘beep-beep-beep’ tone, you know [...]

Legless Lizard And Tiny Woodpecker Among New Species Discovered In Brazil

Researchers discovered a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species in Brazil’s Cerrado, one of the world’s 34 biodiversity conservation hotspots.
The Cerrado’s wooded grassland once covered an area half the size of Europe, but is now being converted to cropland and ranchland at twice the rate of the neighboring [...]

Police: Pa. man killed over nickname mix-up

Police say a York man was killed because he had a similar nickname as the attackers’ intended target.
York police say 29-year-old Omar Maru Dowling, also known as “Big O,” was killed April 11. At least 18 shots were fired in the attack.
Two 29-year-old York men were charged Tuesday with conspiracy and criminal homicide. Police Lt. [...]

New shrew discovered in Ireland

Ireland, which has seen an immigration surge in recent years, has a new foreigner on its shores, scientists said Monday: the greater white-toothed shrew.
The mammal, Crocidura Russula, has been discovered in parts of the midlands and south-west of the republic. Its natural range is in parts of Africa, France and Germany.
Professor Ian Montgomery, head of [...]

Marching sand dunes stir up Mars mystery

Sand grains stirred up by the winds of Mars are tossed higher and farther than those kicked up by winds on Earth, a new study finds. The results could help explain how dunes migrate across the Martian surface as well as what whips up dust storms that blow across the red planet.
Scientists first noticed dunes [...]

Israeli military enlists robotic soldier

Israel’s newest soldier can see at night, never nods off on sentry duty and can carry 660 pounds without complaining.
The Guardium, an unmanned ground vehicle commissioned by the Israeli military and shown to The Associated Press on Monday, is essentially a robotic soldier, among the first in the world to be operational. It can replace [...]

The Universe as colossal brain

Left: Neurons in a (mouse) brain.
Right: The universe with illuminated galaxies, simulated by a team of astrophysicists.

Robot creepily re-assembles itself, plans downfall of humanity

Oh, great. Just when you thought that at least we could try averting the imminent robot takeover by smashing them to pieces, some bunch of so-called ’scientists’ comes along and invent a robot that re-assembles itself after you kick it to bits. Thanks guys. Don’t provoke it, you’ll only make it angry. It can’t be [...]

LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102.
Mr Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus.
He accidentally ingested some of the drug and said later: “Everything I saw was [...]