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Good for more than just zooming in on Obama’s inauguration, new GigaPan technology is allowing remote researchers to explore sites from bird’s-eye to magnifying glass level. With interactive…

A little known British actress, Karen Gillan, has been named as the new companion to star in the fifith series of Doctor Who opposite Matt Smith. This will end months of speculation about who would…

Those two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have provided much information about the planet in the five years they’ve been rolling around the surface. The Martian environment can be summarized in…

Whenever another vampire book arrives on the scene, I think, HHmmph. You guys don’t know nothin.’ We got real vampires over here, baby, not some weeny American vampires. Our vampires are thousands of…

The practice of torturing suspected terrorists received fresh blows Friday after a magazine reported that a key al Qaeda suspect offered useful intelligence after receiving sugar-free cookies.

Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell refer to the parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday’s Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it struck me that Powell was giving hypocrisy a bad…

How to select energy efficient window treatments. Window treatments are not only decorative, they can also help make your home more energy efficient by keeping in the heat during the cold winter…

Is this an amazing work of art, or of something from science-fiction? A huge intricate crop circle sculpted in a sea of barley has appeared near an ancient British burial mound in Wiltshire.

Miss Gillan, 21, will star alongside new Time Lord Matt Smith, when the hit series returns in 2010.

They may not be the talking mice of cartoons, but real mice carry a “humanized version” of a gene thought to be involved in speech, a new study suggests.

The BBC has said “a script is in development” for a possible Doctor Who movie spin-off - with David Tennant the favoured thesp to take the lead.

Twice this summer, the sun will set in exact alignment with the cross streets of Manhattan’s street grid, making the city’s towering buildings function something like a modern-day Stonehenge. They…

Spammers sending MASS PMs to members to fool them into doing SIGN UPS and other spammy stuff.

A mystery low-level hum which featured in The X-Files is plaguing residents of a Cornish village.

Exclusive look inside Rob Zombie’s Halloween II

Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged.

NASA scientists modeled freezing conditions on Mars to test whether liquid water could have been present to form the surface features of the Martian landscape. Evidence suggests flowing water formed…

“Klingons have not been forgotten — far from it. In fact, they’re the subject of an ongoing research project that explores a long-neglected art form: Klingon opera.”

Hidden beneath the U.S. West’s Great Basin, scientists have spied a giant blob of rocky material dripping like honey. The Great Basin consists of small mountain ranges separated by valleys and…

It’s one of ITV’s biggest drama shows of recent years but ITV director of programs Peter Fincham is having trouble funding the next series of supernatural dinosaur series “Primeval” — and is thought…

The first implantable telescope is developed for human eyes to help patients with advanced macular degeneration.

In Get Smart, the 1960s TV spy comedy, secret agents wanting a private conversation would deploy the “cone of silence”, a clear plastic cone lowered over the agents’ heads. Now a modern cone of…

iMovie has been available on OSX since its inception. I originally used it to edit home movies and create my own “slideshows” of still photos with music to give to family members as keepsakes (don’t…

If you have an iPhone or are planning to get an iPhone in the near future, then you will want to read “My New iPhone: 52 Simple Projects to Get you Started” by Wallace Wang.

Blur and Pink Floyd among artists objecting to songs being on compilation CDs sold to fund party

A lone group of Swiss scientists have been using scattered LEDs, neural circuity, and an army of miniature robots to explore the very basis of good and evil. No, you aren’t reading the back cover of…

Dozens of people have reported seeing glowing orange lights moving slowly across the sky between 10.30pm and 11pm on Sunday evening.

The common wisdom these days is that the Internet and Web, as well as technology in general, will continue on a forward momentum. It will constantly add to our collective knowledge and increase our…

On this website you can peruse the debate that followed the paper presenting the Simulation argument. The original paper is here, as are popular synopses, scholarly papers commenting on the first…

Is Google SkyNet? In a word: Yes. In fact, in some ways, it’s even smarter. SkyNet didn’t assume worldwide domination until 2029, while Google has already effectively monopolized search and it’s only…

Australia takes the top spot followed by China with India and Singapore in equal third place. Qatar is the only gulf nation that figures in this “relatively” recession-proof list.

NASA-sponsored scientists looking back at Earth with the Deep Impact/EPOXI mission have developed a method to indicate whether Earth-like extrasolar worlds have oceans.

This strange almost perfect ‘ice circle’ has appeared on a frozen lake in Siberia. While scientists have ruled out UFO involvement, they are puzzled as to how the mysterious, 2.5mile-wide geological…

Stars getting tattoo’s in foreign languages isn’t new, but unlike the general public stars usually get the spelling on their tattoos right. Hayden Panettiere is the exception. Panettiere has a tattoo…

Sixty years since the publication of ‘1984’, Britain has never felt closer to George Orwell’s dystopian vision of life in the future. As the author’s complete works are reprinted and a theatre season…

The new Terminator movie has a kid for no reason and Mad Cow creates zombies…

Portland Oregon Article: Fans prepare for True Blood season 2 with vampire-themed goodies galore by local Portland Vampire Examiner expert, Devon Downeysmith.

In Get Smart, the 1960s TV spy comedy, secret agents wanting a private conversation would deploy the “cone of silence”, a clear plastic cone lowered over the agents’ heads. Now a modern cone of…

David Cameron launched a scathing attack on the British National Party while fielding questions at an agricultural show.

A new incarnation of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” could be coming to the big screen.