A hospital has reassured patients after being forced to apologise to two pregnant women who were wrongly told their unborn babies were dead — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The FBI has seized a set of John Lennon’s fingerprints from a Manhattan memorabilia shop — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Not even the sweet release of death can liberate you from New York’s relentless parking ticket blitz. Early Tuesday morning a traffic cop came across Nicholas Rappold, 21, of Flushing, who was slumped across the front seat of his Jeep Cherokee on 165th Street near 35th Avenue. Rappold was dead, but just because you’ve gone to your eternal resting place doesn’t mean you can park it wherever you want. Dying drivers should really know this by now — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The fishing community on the English tidal island of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, has found a wonderful channel of employment for their once seaworthy vessels. By simply turning them upside down and adding doors they are upcycled into sheds! So cool I wish they were converted into little studios instead. Photo by Kevin Wakelam — via CRAFT
When it comes to genomes, size matters — and British scientists say a rare and striking plant native to Japan is in a perilous position.
Researchers at Britain’s Kew Botanical Gardens say the plant, Paris japonica, has the largest genome yet recorded, putting it at high risk of extinction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new chemical process may help unlock biofuels from trees and plant waste in a shift from using food crops such as sugar cane to generate fuel, scientists said Thursday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On tuesday october 5th, Mexican Senate took the first step to take Mexico out of ACTA by voting through a non-binding point of agreement that makes a strong call to reject any type of international policy fabricated behind closed doors, at least in Mexico — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Super-strong, highly conductive yarns made from extraordinarily thin carbon tubes could one day find use in spacesuits, bulletproof vests and radiation suits, researchers now suggest.
Carbon nanotubes are hollow pipes just nanometers or billionths of a meter in diameter – dozens to hundreds of times thinner than a wavelength of visible light. They can possess a range of extraordinary physical and electrical properties, such as being roughly 100 times stronger than steel at one-sixth the weight– via redwolf.newsvine.com
A scrap metal dealer who paid thieves £61 for £15,000 worth of musical instruments has been found guilty of handling stolen goods.
Marcus Egan, 35, who runs Egan Metals in Gorseinon, then crushed the instruments belonging to Pontardulais Town Band to make a profit of £10 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A bid by a Cumbrian museum to buy a rare Roman helmet and keep it in the county has failed after an anonymous phone bidder bought it for £2m — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Three of five Victorian children allegedly starved in Adelaide’s northern suburbs were so malnourished their brains had shrunk, the South Australian Supreme Court has been told — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Love watching the ABC? We’re really happy to announce that the ABC has added long-form shows to YouTube. Now you can watch separate channels for comedy, entertainment and documentaries, which showcase full episodes of great Australian-made shows — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the early 1970s, three men working for the British Government developed an encryption system that – almost 40 years later – underpins every transaction on the internet. There was only one problem: they couldn’t tell anyone about it.
Between them James Ellis, Clifford Cocks and Malcolm Williamson invented Public Key Cryptography, a system that permits secure communications and electronic transactions without the prior exchange of a secret key. Their work was used to secure Government communications – and naturally their bosses at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) wanted to keep their discovery top secret — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Just a few days ago we broke the news that the first BitTorrent app had been allowed into Apple’s App Store. The developer managed to get it approved despite Apple’s hatred towards BitTorrent. Unfortunately, the fun was soon over as Apple has already kicked the App from the store. The developer is not giving up that easily and hopes to convince Apple they’re wrong — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Libyan government has removed an adult-friendly link-shortening service from the web, saying that it fell foul of local laws.
It could have an impact on similar services registered in Libya — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The formation of Saturn’s rings has been one of the classical if not eternal questions in astronomy. But one researcher has provided a provocative new theory to answer that question. Robin Canup from the Southwest Research Institute has uncovered evidence that the rings came from a large, Titan-sized moon that was destroyed as it spiraled into a young Saturn — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Viewed from the outside, it could be any old warehouse in the country.
Inside, though, it has the equivalent of 153 miles of storage space to store more than eight million books which form the bulk of the stock of arguably the country’s most famous library.
Welcome to the new home for books owned by Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, which has found that its historic entitlement to a copy of every volume published in the UK had led to it running out of storage space — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A near-final version of the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) released this week won praise from organizations representing copyright holders and some sighs of relief from groups that had opposed proposals in earlier drafts.
Still, concerns about the copyright-enforcement trade pact remain, said some groups critical of language in earlier, leaked versions of ACTA. The proposed trade agreement has been improved, with Internet service providers no longer on the hook for the copyright infringement of their customers, said the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a tech trade group — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen (or SHY character) to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they promote with the soft hyphen character, which many browsers ignore — via redwolf.newsvine.com
NSW and Victoria have ruled out following Tasmania’s lead and legislating for all homes to be connected to the National Broadband Network — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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