In the futuristic cartoon series "The Jetsons," a robotic maid named Rosie whizzed around the Jetsons' home doing household chores--cleaning, cooking dinner and washing dishes.
Robotics
Apr 10, 2007
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Mongoose pups use their littermates to gain more food from their carers. Researchers at the University of Cambridge found that a unique system of pup care reduces competition for adult help, allowing pups to collectively ...
Apr 10, 2007
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Tiny, biodegradable particles filled with medicine may also contain answers to some of the biggest human health problems, including cancer and tuberculosis. The secret is the size of the package.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 10, 2007
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Spring is in the air … and up for grabs? Well, uh, no, apparently not.
Software
Apr 10, 2007
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Microsoft updates its hotfix to address problems in a handful of thirdy-party programs.
Software
Apr 10, 2007
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Open-source luminary Bruce Perens scathingly dismisses claims by a lawyer for the Association for Competitive Technology that the latest draft of the GNU GPL Version 3 brings legal risks.
Other
Apr 10, 2007
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Using a quartet of space observatories, University of Maryland astronomers may have cracked a 45-year mystery surrounding two ghostly spiral arms in the galaxy M106.
Astronomy
Apr 10, 2007
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Scientists using NASA satellite data have found strong evidence that a major earthquake can lead to a nearly immediate increase in regional volcanic activity.
Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2007
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Marine scientists recently published a research paper in the science journal, Biology Letters, that found humpback whales migrate over 5,100 miles from Central America to their feeding grounds off Antarctica; a record distance ...
Apr 10, 2007
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Geneva, 10 April 2007. The first sector of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be cooled down has reached a temperature of 1.9 K (-271°C), colder than deep outer space.
General Physics
Apr 10, 2007
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