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With jam-packed schedules and a video feed to Earth, astronauts enjoy precious little privacy as it is. Soon, doctors might peek into an astronaut’s last bastion of solitude, thanks to a portable brain scanner that could one day go into orbit.Mission control could use the device to remotely monitor astronauts for signs of brain injury, […]

In lieu of a magnet, the optical scanner sends weak pulses of near-infrared light into the brain, then reads back the reflected wavelengths. That reveals how much oxygen is in the blood, a gauge of brain activity, says Gary Strangman, a…

FAKE REALITY … Or is it real fakery? An earwig who used to watch the TV show “Jericho…

This clever photoshopping from www.Alaskareports.com/blog predates Lyda Green's bombshell announcement that she won't be running for re-election. Picturing Lyda and Charlie Huggins as Scarlett and Rhett was apparently meant to be…

Although a pack mentality is natural for a dog, their bravery, loyalty, and selflessness can boggle the mind and warm the heart. Here are a few stories that illustrate what dogs are all about.

Brenda Owen was walking her labrador retriever Penny by the Elwy River in St. Asaph, Wales about a month ago when she spotted a wheelchair on the shore and a body in the water. She shouted, Fetch!? and Penny did. She jumped into the water and…

The accident happened as the cargo plane tried to take off at Brussels’ Zaventem airport.

“We see from the tracks on the runway that the pilot tried to stop the aircraft because he understood he could not bring it up into the air, and he drove it off the runway.”

Recently we praised the latest sci-fi blockbuster Iron Man for including so many real-world technologies. It makes a change, since all too often Hollywood's use of science involves shocking blunders: including spaceships making whooshing noises in Star Wars to the journey to the center of the Earth in The Core. So, to give credit where it's due…

All scenes in outer space are silent ? sound does not travel in a vacuum The stars do not move past the ship ? for there to be a visible motion of the star field, the ship would have to be travelling at close to the speed of light The crew eat…

The plot cooked up by Ian Fleming in September 1940, more than a decade before he created James Bond, was so brilliantly preposterous that it can now be seen as the prototype 007 mission.

He was particularly good at dreaming up imaginative schemes. Among his odder ideas were: scuttling cement barges in the Danube to block the waterway to German shipping, forging Reichsmarks to disrupt the German economy, sinking a lump of concrete…

Initial thoughts about tonight’s mid-season finale of LOST, including theories about Ben, Michael, Tom, and Libby!

As someone long prepared for the occasion;In full command of every plan you wrecked -Do not choose a coward's explanationThat hides behind the cause and the effect.Leonard Cohen, “Alexandra Leaving”Are you kidding me? Holy sh*t,…