This Is How Facebook Is Tracking Your Internet Activity

This Is How Facebook Is Tracking Your Internet Activity - Business Insider: "Facebook really is watching your every move online."

Interstellar Starship Meeting Warps Into Houston This Week

Interstellar Starship Meeting Warps Into Houston This Week | 100 Year Starship | Space.com: "Scientists, visionaries, entertainers and the public will gather in Houston this week for the 100-Year Starship Symposium, a meeting to discuss space travel to another star."

7 Signs of Poltergeist Activity

7 Signs of Poltergeist Activity: "Here is how to recognize when your home might be experiencing poltergeists"

More planets could harbour life

BBC News - More planets could harbour life: "New computer models suggest there could be many more habitable planets out there than previously thought."

California group may offer “Jurassic Park” award to any scientists who clone an extinct species back to life

California group may offer “Jurassic Park” award to any scientists who clone an extinct species back to life - NYPOST.com: "LOS ANGELES — A California group is pushing the idea of a “Jurassic Park” prize for the first scientific team to bring an extinct species — be it mammoth or pigeon — back to life."

Monsanto wants the GE genie out of the bottle

Monsanto wants the GE genie out of the bottle | Stuff.co.nz: "A kiwifruit industry crippled by Psa disease is ripe for introducing genetic modification, says a visiting American biotechnology advocate."

Worries intensify over Syrian chemical weapons

Worries intensify over Syrian chemical weapons - The Washington Post: "Western spy agencies suspect Syria’s government has several hundred tons of chemical weapons and precursor components scattered among as many as 20 sites throughout the country, heightening anxieties about the ability to secure the arsenals in the event of a complete breakdown of authority in the war-torn nation, U.S. and Middle Eastern officials say."

CERN looks to build 'Large Hadron Collider 2' - measuring 50miles in length - to solve the mystery of how gravity works

CERN looks to build 'Large Hadron Collider 2' - measuring 50miles in length - to solve the mystery of how gravity works | Mail Online: "After discovering the smallest particle that could ever exist, the team at Cern is now considering scaling up - with a brand new collider.The Geneva-based team which discovered the Higgs Boson this summer is now looking to the future, and are proposing a new underground accelorator with a circumference of 50miles (80kms) - three times the size of the current one under Geneva."

Frankenstein's dream brought to life as scientists say electricity could be used to regrow limbs

Frankenstein's dream brought to life as scientists say electricity could be used to regrow limbs | Mail Online: "Experiments with echoes of Frankenstein suggest electricity could one day be used to regenerate tissue and regrow lost limbs.



Scientists believe electric currents and fields hold the key to major advances in tissue engineering. In the distant future they may even help people with severed limbs, such as victims of industrial accidents or soldiers, to grow new arms and legs."

Lab-grown ears, bionic arms among cutting-edge treatments aiding wounded troops

Lab-grown ears, bionic arms among cutting-edge treatments aiding wounded troops: "BOSTON –  Scientists are growing ears, bone and skin in the lab, and doctors are planning more face transplants and other extreme plastic surgeries. Around the country, the most advanced medical tools that exist are now being deployed to help America's newest veterans and wounded troops."

Volcano Watch: Swift Swelling at Santorini

Volcano Watch: Swift Swelling at Santorini : Discovery News: "Reports of heavy breathing on the popular Greek isle of Santorini are making headlines again."

Europe to open skies to drones by 2016 says Commission document

Drone Wars UK: "In an obscure working document, the European Commission has announced it is working on plans to open European civil airspace to unmanned drones by 2016.  This follows the signing by President Obama earlier this year of the FAA Appropriations bill which mandated that US airspace must be opened to drones by 2015.

Knowing when your time’s up: curious cases of presentiments of death

Knowing when your time’s up: curious cases of presentiments of death | weirdaustralia: "In 1912, timber worker William Toogood had a vivid prophetic dream of his impending death and the gruesome way in which it would occur. The following day William told his workmates of the disturbing dream, describing how logs had to be lifted to recover his battered body. Later that day, William Toogood died, precisely in the manner in which his dream had foretold."

Supervolcano With Hexagonal Rocks Found in Hong Kong

Pictures: Supervolcano With Hexagonal Rocks Found in Hong Kong: "Much of Hong Kong and its Victoria Harbour, including this rocky islet, lies atop the remnants of an ancient supervolcano with an 11-mile (18 kilometer) wide caldera, Chinese authorities revealed last week."

New Mars theory cast doubt on planet's habitability

New Mars theory cast doubt on planet's habitability - latimes.com: "A study of clays suggests they might have been formed in hot magma rich in water — too hot to support microbial life."

New toxic strain of H5N1 bird flu spreading fast in Vietnam

New toxic strain of H5N1 bird flu spreading fast in Vietnam: "September 9, 2012 – VIETNAM – A new highly-toxic strain of the potentially deadly bird flu virus has appeared in Vietnam and is spreading fast, according to state media reports. The strain appeared to be a mutation of the H5N1 virus which swept through the country’s poultry flocks last year, forcing mass culls of birds in affected areas, according to agriculture officials."

Visions Of The Future: DR0NE, A Webseries About Autonomous Humanoid Soldiers

Visions Of The Future: DR0NE, A Webseries About Autonomous Humanoid Soldiers | Singularity Hub: "Consider, for a moment, the rising use of drone technology by the military. In light of how years of advances in robotics and artificial intelligence will transform drones, imagine how warfare will look in merely one decade. That’s the subject of a recently released webseries called DR0NE that is both intellectually intriguing and fricking awesome. Episode 1, released on Aug 30, paints a picture of how far technology might evolve in just one decade."

New Research Suggests Bacteria Are Social Microorganisms

Science & Technology -- Sott.net: "New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reveals that some unlikely subjects--bacteria--can have social structures similar to plants and animals."

Heisenberg's 'Uncertainty Principle' Now In Doubt

Heisenberg's 'Uncertainty Principle' Now In Doubt -- Science & Technology -- Sott.net: "Since 1927, when Werner Heisenberg formulated the uncertainty principle, it has stood as one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics. In a simplified form, the uncertainty principle states that it is impossible to measure anything without disturbing it. For example, any attempt to measure a particle's position must randomly change its speed."

Sweden aims to be cashless society

Sweden aims to be cashless society - Europe - Al Jazeera English: "With just three per cent of all financial transactions involving cash, country moves to eliminate physical legal tender."