Author: Myles Ulwelling

Italy’s Mount Etna is intensifying its eruption, shooting up more lava and ash in the air. Italy’s Civil Protection agency says that they have received raports from the geophysics and volcanology institute on Monday, announcing the increase in volume of ejected material, eight days after the initial eruption began. Local authorities state that Etna started […]

This summer’s crippling famine in Somalia, which has killed tens of thousands of people and led half a million more…

The King’s Knot, a geometrical earthwork located in the royal gardens near Sterlin castle has been covered in mystery and speculation for centuries. The formation, as it is today, is believed to be from around the 1620, but it’s center part is believed to be much, much older. So much older that we could be […]

There’s only a month until the melt season theoretically melts and the refreezing time begins, but until then, the polar ice cap has begun shrinking again, and shows no signs of even slowing down the shrinking. “With about a month left in the sea ice melt season, the amount of further ice loss will depend […]

Two MIT researchers have cracked some fundamental problems with high resolution 3-D imaging using a novel gelatinous interface and computer-vision…

Worried about privacy on the Internet? It may be even worse than you thought — with rapidly improving face recognition…

A team of researchers from Yale University have shown at a cellular basis why we tend to be more forgetful as we age, and claim that the condition may be reversed. There’s no secret to the fact that an elderly person has a much weaker memory than the one he did at 20 years of […]

The future of digging

A while ago, we were telling you how SETI (site here) is closing down due to lack of funding. We also published an infographic showing the relative cost of the program – which is about as much as a Tomahawk missile. Thankfully, they have been receiving a whole lot donation, and now they’re really close […]

A dog skull recently found in the Altai mountains in Siberia, Russia shows the earliest signs of domestication ever to be found; but if dog was man’s best friend back then, human loyalty is questionable at best – pretty much like things are now. The dog lived shortly before the peak of the last ice […]