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Modern armies rely on a wide range of electronics to help detect their enemies, coordinate their forces and aim their weapons. Today, knocking out those electronics requires sophisticated jamming aircraft, targeting the people using the electronics or the tech-frying side effects of a nuclear blast. But in the future, disabling enemy electronics may only take [...]
As most of the world knows by now, Facebook began rolling out new “features” on their social networking service this week. Besides the ability to go back to 1950 and note the first time you drove an Edsel, the other big change is that now you will be able to share what you are doing [...]
The science world has been left in shock after it was announced that CERN scientists had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light in a finding that could overturn fundamental law of physics. Here are a selection of other major scientific discoveries. Gravity Galileo Galilei overturns nearly 2,000 years of Aristotelian belief [...]
Nasa has said a satellite which it no longer uses will soon plunge from space on to Earth. The space agency does not know when or where its 20-year-old satellite will land, but added there is only a one in 3,200 chance of satellite parts hitting someone. It will probably be in late September but [...]
Approximately 33 percent of Americans surveyed own a smartphone and a study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project has found some interesting information about how we use them. Eighty-seven percent of smartphone users are going online or checking their mail with their smartphones, with 67 percent saying they do so daily. Twenty-five percent [...]
More than three-quarters of children in Europe have a profile on one or more social networking sites, and about 1 in 5 under the age of thirteen have a Facebook profile despite age restrictions, according to a new survey released Monday by the European Commission (EC). The EC poll found that 43 percent of young [...]
U-M study finds variations in gene linked to higher risk of alcohol symptoms, more impulsiveness, greater brain activity Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have uncovered a new link between genetic variations associated with alcoholism, impulsive behavior and a region of the brain involved in craving and anxiety. The results, published online April [...]