LiveScience.com
Monday, December 18, 2006
New Wheat is Totally Sweet
Sweet wheat is a hybridized variety of wheat with twice the sugar of its ancestor. It's expected to hit stores two to three years.
Picture Perfect: How to Make Blink-Free Holiday Photos
To help photographers get the perfect shot, an Australian scientist has calculated the number of photos that need to be taken to ensure at least one blink-free photo.
The Art of Deception Revealed
The great fake psychics are great improvisationists. Massimo Polidoro recalls how he learned this from the great Randi.
Cricket's Chirp Attracts Sex and Death
Here's what happens if you sing well and you're a male cricket. A parasitic fly lays eggs that eat you from the inside out. So why chirp? Scientists find an interesting balance between the dual aims for sex and survival.
Human Thoughts Control New Robot
Armed with nothing more than brain waves and a special cap, a person gets a robot to pick objects up and move them around.
Tigers Reproduce Like Rabbits But Barely Survive
Tigers in one national park are poached relentlessly, but amazingly their population remain stable. The picture is not so rosy elsewhere as these giant cats are hunted to the brink of extinction.
Image of the Day: Breath Detectors
Mosquitoes use the carbon dioxide you exhale to identify a potential food source. Now researchers have discovered the two receptors in fruit flies (similar insects) that help the insect to detect carbon dioxide.
Newsletter Unsubscribe
advertisement
About us
|
Contact us
|
Advertise
|
Terms of service
|
Privacy
© 1999-2005 Imaginova Corp. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.