Sumit Paul-Choudhury, editorFigurines from the Don river valley (Images: Kirstin Jennings)The world’s oldest portrait, the world’s first fully carved sculpture, the world's oldest ceramic figure, the world’s earliest puppet - there’s no shortage of superlatives in the new exhibition of art from the ice age at the British Museum in LondonBut focus too closely on the exhibits’ record-breaking ages...
"Wild Thing" singer Reg Presley dies at 71
Label: Technology LONDON: Reg Presley, lead singer of British 1960s rock band The Troggs, has died aged 71, a friend said late Monday.Presley, best known for hits including "Wild Thing" and "Love Is All Around", had announced a year ago that he was battling cancer and would retire from the band.Veteran music journalist Keith Altham, a close friend of Presley's, wrote on his Facebook page that the singer...
Hackers hit U.S. Department of Energy
Label: LifestyleThe U.S. Department of Energy said that hackers have stolen personal data of its employees and contractors.The U.S. Department of Energy has confirmed that its computer systems were hacked into last month. According to The New York Times, the federal agency sent around an internal e-mail on Friday telling its employees about the cyberattack. "The Department of Energy has just confirmed a recent cyber...
Space Pictures This Week: A Space Monkey, Printing a Moon Base
Label: HealthIllustration courtesy Foster and Partners/ESAThe European Space Agency (ESA) announced January 31 that it is looking into building a moon base (pictured in an artist's conception) using a technique called 3-D printing.It probably won't be as easy as whipping out a printer, hooking it to a computer, and pressing "print," but using lunar soils as the basis for actual building blocks could be a possibility."Terrestrial...
Boy Safe, Kidnapper Dead After Hidden Camera Tip
Label: Business A week-long standoff in Alabama, where a retired trucker held a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker, has ended with the kidnapper dead and the child safe, according to law enforcement.Officials had been able to insert a high-tech camera into the bunker to monitor the movements of the suspect, Richard Lee Dykes, and they had become increasingly concerned that he might...
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Bug protects itself by turning its environment to gold
Label: World Mythical King Midas was ultimately doomed because everything he touched turned to gold. Now, the reverse has been found in bacteria that owe their survival to a natural Midas touch. Delftia acidovorans lives in sticky biofilms that...
Afghan and Pakistani presidents in Britain for talks
Label: Technology LONDON: Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari are set to hold key talks Monday with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the Afghan peace process.The summit at Cameron's Chequers country retreat near London is aimed at boosting cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan, amid growing fears that a civil war could erupt when international troops...
What was that BlackBerry commercial you just saw?
Label: LifestyleSo did a clown just explode, or what?(Credit:BlackBerry)Okay, so what now?BlackBerry opted to go with the whimsical and fantastical with its Super Bowl commercial, showing what the new BlackBerry Z10can't do instead of what it can do. To say it's a little strange would be an understatement.Indeed, it's a bold choice, one that some would argue might be a little head-scratching. But it's one that BlackBerry...
Pictures We Love: Best of January
Label: HealthPhotograph by Dieu Nalio Chery, APThe magnitude 7 earthquake that struck near Port au Prince, Haiti, in January 2010 so devastated the country that recovery efforts are still ongoing.Professional dancer Georges Exantus, one of the many casualties of that day, was trapped in his flattened apartment for three days, according to news reports. After friends dug him out, doctors amputated his right leg...
Super Bowl XLVII Live Blog: Lights Out
Label: Business 9:00 p.m. ET: And there’s already a @SuperbowlLights twitter account.8:59 p.m. ET: Sources tell ABC News the power outage is just a technical issue, nothing nefarious. Reporters at the game say they heard a boom in the stadium before the lights went out. Lights slowly coming back on, and players still on the field.Matt Slocum/AP Photo8:54 p.m. ET: The AC is apparently also out...
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