Aug 14 2008
A new kind of light-warping material could boost the speed of the internet at least ten fold by, strangely enough, slowing bits of it down.
Aug 13 2008
Now a new breakthrough in the art of illusion has been achieved. Researchers at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of California, Berkeley have for the first time found a way to cloak 3D materials.
Aug 12 2008
At least 38 tribespeople in Venezuela, including several children, are thought to have died after being attacked by vampire bats.
Aug 12 2008
Russian troops have already routed Georgian forces in the breakaway region South Ossetia. Now, Moscow has seized Georgia’s military base at Senaki.
Aug 12 2008
A boys’ soccer team from Sierra Leone won silver at a tournament in Sweden, but were hailed as champions in their poor West African homeland — because they all came home.
Aug 12 2008
A new L’Oreal advert featuring Beyoncé has caused outrage after it appeared to show the sexy African-American superstar looking white.
Aug 12 2008
Robbers armed with machetes hacked a U.S. tourist to death and seriously wounded his wife in an attack aboard the couple’s sailboat in northeastern Guatemala, the woman told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Aug 9 2008
The fatal stabbing of the father of a former Olympian at a Beijing landmark cast a sad shadow over the first full day of Olympic competition Saturday, just hours after China’s jubilant opening of the Summer Games.
Aug 9 2008
K2 is known as the world’s hardest and most dangerous mountain more challenging even than Everest.
Aug 6 2008
Archaeologists have discovered traces of a Bronze Age place of worship in Germany in what they say might be the country’s answer to Stonehenge.