Comic take on Nobels awarded to 10 research teams, amid flying paper airplanes

Machines have little impact on nesting behavior, study finds

mir42 writes "The OpenSource multimedia authorware project Sophie, formerly hosted by USC Los Angeles, may just have been killed by new funding. The original funding organization, Mellon Foundation, approved a grant to redevelop the four year project from scratch in

My son volunteered me to give a presentation on what I do for a living for career day at his elementary school. I need to come up with a roughly 20-minute presentation to be given to 4-5 different classrooms. I

A couple of very useful updates have just been released by Microsoft for the ever so popular Sysinternals tool set. The most notable one is ProcessMonitor v2.0 which will now include 'real-time TCP and UDP monitoring.' Another one, released earlier

with an excerpt from Custom PC: "After developing a brand new CPU architecture from the ground-up, you'd expect that Toshiba, Sony and IBM would have more uses for the Cell architecture than the PlayStation 3, and Toshiba has been quick

Engineers at Battelle have come up with a way to send data through the air at 10 Gigabits per second using point-to-point millimeter-wave technology. They used standard optical networking equipment and essentially combined two lower bandwidth signals to produce a

Some programming languages just move on to major version numbers, leaving older legacy versions (and users) behind, but that's not the plan for Python. Python 2.6 has the key goal of trying to ensure compatibility between Python 2.x and Python

Another contest is upon us for any and all hopeful winners. It's true that we just wrapped up a Crysis: Warhead key giveaway, but now it's Battlefield: Heroes' turn!Total Gaming Network has 20 Battlefield Heroes keys to give out, and

EA and Crytek are giving games a chance to experience Crysis Wars, for free, for an entire weekend. If you don't yet own Crysis Warhead, you can at least try out the multiplayer component, Wars, beforehand.Electronic Arts and Crytek are

The five mods that we mentioned previously are now available for download via Steam.Valve today announced the availability of five leading Source MODs (game modifications built atop Valve's leading engine technology). The initial set of MODs offered via Steam are

Another tidbit from CVG's upcoming interview with Valve's Doug Lombardi reveals how the whole episodic thing sort of bit them all in the ass.The notion of the word 'episode' conjures up this idea of television where you get something new

Updates have been released to STALKER: Clear Sky today. If you own the Steam version of the title, the updates will be automatically applied the next time you run the game or restart Steam. Fixed an error which prevented the

The demo of Left 4 Dead has a more narrowed time frame of release thanks to fresh information given to IGN. Valve's Doug Lombardi says that the demo for Left 4 Dead will be released in early November.He also shares

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in upcoming (or recently past, depending on your locale) elections? Which ones mean more to you than all the others, and which are total showstoppers? That is, which ones would cause you to absolutely refuse to vote for someone who

Or the reason why Paul Krugman is holding his nose while finally being for the bailout. It's stuff like this that reduces my faith in those running the global economy to zero.

Yesterday we went to the UK Embedded Systems Show 2008 at the NEC in Birmingham. Embedded as in everything from embedded WindowsXP down to bluetooth / zigbeee modules. It is a truism in all fields and communities, whether it be

I go and write in my slashdot journal to ask a question based on a post by Disco, then the universe gives me an article suitable for discussion here. 5 million jobs have now been lost in the United States