Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it’s your reputation that’s stolen. [...]
September 20, 2009
LONDON – The Wellcome Collection a museum in London has acquired a beautiful, yet unusual new sculpture which will be on display September 25 until October 18. The work depicts the virus which causes swine flu, it said Friday, and it offers “a point of departure to explore the impact such viruses have had on [...]
September 17, 2009
Bombus franklini, a North American bumblebee, was last seen on August 9, 2006. Professor Emeritus Robbin Thorp, an entomologist at UC Davis, was doing survey work on Mt. Ashland in Oregon when he saw a single worker on a flower near the Pacific Crest Trail. He had last seen the bee in 2003, roughly in [...]
September 15, 2009
New evidence suggests that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. It seems that the “time” part of the space-time continuum is literally running out. Scientists have previously measured the light from distant exploding stars to show that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. They assumed that [...]
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November 9, 2009
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