Dogs are fairly intelligent, they learn rapidly and it is not too difficult to train them, but a new Austrian research published online in Animal Cognition has really come up with a surprise: dogs seem to be able to form abstract concepts. We do not dare to attribute this even to apes, but the team led by Friederike Range from the University of Vienna
What do you do when your iPod goes kaput? Peter Wayner gives you a low down on sites with answers…
A few months ago, Stephen Ironside, a student in the US, confronted a minor but modern tragedy: the iPod that filled his life with song stopped working.
The device was out of warranty, and Apple would not fix it free. So he left it in a drawer
Rocky planets similar to our own could be forming in the Pleiades cluster, astronomers reported on Wednesday. HD 23514, a star within the cluster is surrounded by a number of hot dust particles that could form the building block necessary to build planets. The discovery of the dust cloud, is the first evidence that rocky planets might be forming in the cluster, and solar systems similar to
George Ou (a blogger at http://blogs.zdnet.com) had a chance to speak with NASA and SGI at the SC07 supercomputing convention in Reno this week where he saw one of the biggest super computers in the world.Pictured left is a 1024-core version of the Altix 4700 and NASA just bought one with twice as many processors (1024 dual-core Itanium 2 processors) based on the Montecito variant of Intel’s Itanium 2
The new technology was announced by the Ministry of Defence
It seems that the British Army is testing a couple of monster gadgets in its attempts to develop the 100% invisible tank. The breaking news was disclosed by the Ministry of Defence, during secret trials last week. The official representatives said that the army has successfully managed to make a vehicle disappear.
What’s even more shocking is
Better load up on the breath mints - a new study has found that eating lots of onions and garlic may help prevent cancers.International researchers have carried out a study and found that people whose diets are rich in onions, garlic, and other alliums have a lower risk of several types of cancer than those who avoid the pungent herbs.
According to lead researcher Carlotta Galeone of the
