Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found the star 47 Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper has at least two planets orbiting it. The latest is a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting at the same distance Jupiter orbits our own Sun. The other is a planet about 2.5 times the size of Jupiter
The last of the so-called free Internet Service Providers in Australia — FreeOnline — has called it quits, announcing today that its service will no longer be in operation from 1 September onwards
A trendy henna tattoo could cause you months of pain and discomfort, and even a lifelong allergy to a common chemical found in dyes. But the problem is not the henna dye itself, an extract of the plant Lawsonia intermis, but the chemical para-phenylene diamine
A company called BreakAway Foods of Columbus, Ohio, has frozen and packaged macaroni cheese in a cardboard cylinder so it’s ready to eat after a minute in the microwave. Better still, insert a stick into the heated package, and you can push it up to eat like an ice block as you wander about — just plain weird…
US District Court Judge Ronald Lew ruled on Monday that the free speech rights of Utah artist Tom Forsythe — who was sued by Mattel two years ago after he parodied Barbie dolls in a series of photographs meant as a stinging social comment — outweigh the company’s trademarks and intellectual property rights as they relate to the 42-year-old doll
The speed of light and other constants that scientists have relied on to explain the universe and its formation may not be so constant, according to a new study conducted by an international team of researchers
What comes out of the human body and goes into a toilet is often thought of as an end product. But for future residents of Mars, human waste will need to take on a more vital role
Massachusetts attorney general prevents bankrupt dot-com, Essential.com, from cashing in on users’ personal information
Despite recent attempts by the Chinese Government to restrict Internet access and curtail the burgeoning growth of Internet cafes, the Chinese continue to flock to the Internet in their millions
The Federal Opposition has forced Telstra into disclosing an embarrassing cover up, revealing a backlog of 20,000 faults on its telephone network Australia-wide
Two six tonne flower pots
at Wagga Wagga are being used by CSIRO researchers working towards a solution for the problem of dryland salinity. The huge pots, or lysimeters, are used to measure the consumption of water by crops.
The $6.2 million Pentagon program designed to let Americans living overseas vote online received only 84 ballots last year. An estimated six million Americans are currently living overseas. That means the experiment — which the Pentagon describes as a success — spent $74,000 per voter
Two of Norway’s largest forest owner associations, have initiated a campaign to make the wolf disappear from Norway. Viken and Norskog sell their products mainly to Norske Skog ASA, in which both Viken and Norskog are shareholders. The company is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of paper for print (magazines, newspaper et.) and the majority of its exports go to UK and Germany. The whole chain, from forest to consumers, is eco-labelled under PEFC as coming from sustainable operated forest…
Maybe it should be labelled: coming from wolf-free forests
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On 6 October, the Commonwealth Heads of Government — CHOGM — will be meeting in Brisbane at the Convention Centre. Fifty-four heads of state from Commonwealth countries, including HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair and John Howard, will be meeting in private to discuss world economic policy. Stop CHOGM has been set up by the Stop Chogm Alliance to help build the biggest possible blockade of the CHOGM meeting
In a legal wrangle over branding, a London High Court has declared that WWF is to be used for animals, not wrestlers
A senior Tibetan official says the Chinese government will decide on a successor for the Dalai Lama. But such an appointment flies in the face of the spiritual leader’s prediction that his reincarnation will be found outside China
The high-speed Southern Cross Cable connecting Australia to the United States is to be reconfigured in light of service disruptions due to damage from a ship’s anchor late last month. The Southern Cross Cable Network is taking steps to enhance the self-restoring ability of the network
A world-renowned Roman Catholic scholar says he has found evidence that the Catholic church sanctioned and blessed same-sex relationships from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
The real motive for raw socket support is for Microsoft to use Windows XP to exploit a bad situation, to deliberately make things worse. Microsoft wants to replace TCP/IP with a proprietary protocol that it will tout as being more secure
A growing number of online companies are ambushing competitors through software that puts ads where marketers want them most — in front of customers visiting rival web sites
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