Home  »  Headline News

On:

Some researchers have already suggested that we burn grass in our cars instead of fossil fuel. But while grass seems to be everywhere, plankton is actually one of the most common types of vegetation on earth?although it’s actually in the ocean. A Spanish company says it has solved the oil shortage problem by creating plankton that will substitute for oil.

A company named Bio Fuel Systems says it has not yet tried refining any plankton and turning it into oil but it is certain it can successfully do so. The company says their process “allows us to obtain biopetroleum, equivalent to that of fossil origin.”

Even better news: this fuel would burn cleaner, producing fewer greenhouse gases than fossil fuels. It would also be cheaper.
read more

On:

In his dynamite new journal, Whitley writes, “As the summer of 2006 rages on, with heatwaves stretching from the American Pacific coast all the way across the North Atlantic to Europe and virtually around the world, we now discover that the great Amazonian rain forest has perhaps a year to live.” Don’t miss this incredibly important message from the man who made you aware of global warming.

NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any links removed.read more

On:

Science is changing the world of animation. Filmmakers are reviving old techniques, like rotoscoping, and making it new. And a group of university mathematicians has created an algorithm that makes animated hair look more realistic.

“A Scanner Darkly” uses rotoscoping, a technique revived by MIT graduate Bob Sabiston, in which live actors are filmed and then animated, frame by frame. Rotoscoping was first used by cartoonists in the 1930s. For “A Scanner Darkly,” it took about 500 hours of computer time to create a minute of film.
read more

On:

In evolutionary terms, humans may have gotten so smart because we needed to get away from poisonous snakes. This lends new credence to the Adam and Eve legend.

In LiveScience.com, Ker Than reports that anthropologist Lynne Isbell thinks that snakes and primates have a long history of trying to outsmart each other. Could the early writers of the Bible have intuited this?

Fossil and DNA evidence shows that snakes were already in the world 100 million years ago when the first mammals evolved. Primates are among the few animals with eyes that face forward, since most animals have eyes on the sides of their heads). Forward-facing eyes are what gives us the ability to see in 3-D, just as having two ears allows us to hear in stereo.
read more