'Mind-reading machine' can convert thoughts into speech - Telegraph

A mind reading machine is a step closer to reality after scientists discovered a way of translating people's thoughts into words. Researchers have been able to translate brain signals into speech using sensors attached to the surface of the brain for the first time.

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Web cheers, jeers Zuckerberg's Time magazine nod - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine's Person of the Year, and, predictably, the internet has some thoughts about it. Many in the tech blogosphere say it's hard to argue with the Time distinction for the man who steered the social-networking juggernaut to more  …

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New hot Jupiter-like exoplanet discovered

ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2010) — A Qatar astronomer teamed with scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover a new alien world.

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The world's Facebook relationships visualized - CNN.com

(Mashable) -- This is what the world looks like, according to the Facebook social graph. Facebook intern Paul Butler was interested in the locations of friendships, so he decided to create a visualization of Facebook connections around the globe.

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Storm in Israel uncovers ancient statue - CNN.com

Jerusalem (CNN) -- A huge storm that collapsed part of a cliff on Israel's central coast led to the discovery of a statue dating back to the Roman period, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Tuesday. The white marble statue of a woman wearing a toga and sandals is estimated to …

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Federal Minister for Minorities presented report in Asia Bibi blasphemy case - Associated Press Of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Nov 25 (APP): Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti Thursday called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr and presented report in the Asia Bibi case who was convicted and sentenced to death under section 295 B and C of PPC.The report accompanied with t …

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Earth's lakes are warming, NASA study finds

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2010) — In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth's largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change.

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Food giant Dole Foods must pay $200,000 over Bananas!* lawsuit - The Local

A Los Angeles judge has ruled that food giant Dole Foods must pay $200,000 (1.4 million kronor) to cover the lawyers' fees incurred by the Swedish filmmakers behind a controversial documentary criticising the company.

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In Cybertherapy, Avatars Assist With Healing - NYTimes.com

For more than a decade, a handful of therapists have been using virtual environments to help people to work through phobias, like a fear of heights or of public spaces.

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Millionaires to Obama: Tax us - Yahoo! News

More than 40 of the nation's millionaires have joined Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength to ask President Obama to discontinue the tax breaks established for them during the Bush administration, as Salon reports.

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Device at Namibian Airport Was a Security Test - NYTimes.com

BERLIN — The German interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, said on Friday that a suspicious package found in a Namibian airport near bags destined for an Air Berlin flight and containing batteries wired to a clock and detonator had been a device designed to test airport securi …

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Imagine a moon base in 2069 - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Competitors and judges describe entries for their contest as wild, crazy, baffling and just plain cool. Some of the ideas are "way impossible," but that's sort of the point, they say, when a bunch of bright, young and talented designers and architects imagine a moon col …

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Family waits to see if mother, accused of blasphemy, will be hanged - CNN.com

Itan Wali, Pakistan (CNN) -- In this village in Pakistan's Punjab province a tearful 12-year-old girl ponders if the Pakistani government will soon hang her mother. "Whenever I see her picture I cry," Isham Masih told CNN. "I want my mother back.

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Global warming could cool down northern temperatures in winter

ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2010) — The overall warming of Earth's northern half could result in cold winters, new research shows.

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Arrest warrant issued for WikiLeaks founder - The Local

A Swedish court on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on suspicions of rape and sexual molestation. Swedish prosecutors submitted the request for the remand order to the Stockholm District Court earlier on Thursday.

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Over 5,000 become citizens at Fenway Park - The Boston Globe

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Eric Boehlert: Glenn Beck's Incendiary Angst Is Dangerously Close to Having a Body Count

On his Monday radio show, Glenn Beck highlighted claims that before he started targeting a little-known, left-leaning organization called the Tides Foundation on his Fox News TV show, "nobody knew" what the non-profit was. Indeed, for more than a year Beck has been portraying th …

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Rain at the North Pole

"Spring showers are next to non-existent in the High Arctic, so Environment Canada's senior climatologist says he's baffled to hear that it rained near the North Pole this week.

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If Americans knew what Swedes receive for their taxes, we would probably riot.

The fact is, in return for their taxes, Europeans are receiving a generous support system for families and individuals for which Americans must pay exorbitantly, out-of-pocket, if we are to receive it at all.

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When Did April Fool's Day Begin? - Yahoo! News

Though pranksters and joke-lovers in many countries now gleefully prepare to dupe friends and loved ones on April Fool's Day, no one knows exactly when or why, or even where, this tradition began.

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Toshiba, Bill Gates and TerraPower May Develop New Reactor - BusinessWeek

Toshiba Corp. and Bill Gates- controlled TerraPower of the U.S.

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Exploiting the architecture of cancers may lead to their destruction

Professor Lisa Coussens and her coworkers, based at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, have now discovered a way of enhancing drug delivery to tumors: using the cancer's own architecture to bring about its downfall.

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Posttraumatic stress disorder: Virtual reality and other technologies offer hope

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) threatens to overload healthcare and social support systems worldwide as the number of cases rises and existing treatments are not sufficiently effective.

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'Star Trek Online' MMO takes gamers into the final frontier to captain their own starships

Prepare to boldly go where no Star Trek fan has gone before. Trekkers can now venture into the Trek universe and command their very own starship in the highly anticipated, "Star Trek Online," a new massively multiplayer online game from Atari and Cryptic Studios, which hits stor …

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Tinnitus does not appear to be a highly inherited condition, study suggests

Tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, does not appear to be a highly inherited condition (i.e., does not pass frequently from parents to offspring), according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

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