Home  »  Headline News

On:

Researchers are trying to figure out the ideal number of people needed to create a viable population for multi-generational space travel. They?ve decided it needs to be 160 people. But with some social engineering it might even be possible to reduce this to 80.

Anthropologist John Moore of the University of Florida wondered how future humans might successfully undertake century-long journeys out into space. Other scientists have concentrated on freezing people with cryogenics or taking along sperm banks, but Moore says, ?the ?right stuff? for a journey into space is the family?a million-year-old institution designed to assist reproduction.?
read more

On:

At 8:02 p.m. today, Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) be a perfect palindrome, since the clocks will read: 20:02, 20/02, 2002.

This has only happened once before at 10:01 a.m. on January 10, 1001. Because clocks only go up to 23.59, it’s something that will never happen again.

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

On:

Michael Stroud reports in wired.com that in Scandinavia people have found a new use for their cellphones: playing wargames. A taxi driver in Stockholm with the alias of Taxi31 spends his free time between passengers shooting people. In Copenhagen, street battles are constantly taking place between dozens of young men with cellphones as their only weapons.

The games rely on new cellphone technology that allows mobile phone users to pinpoint other users? positions within ?cells? formed by their phones? locations relative to nearby transmitters. In the United States, that capability is now required for all mobile operators so that rescue workers can locate mobile users who are in trouble.
read more

On:

If you were given a box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day, you’ll be glad to learn that a tribe of Indians who eat a lot of cocoa have shown that chocolate may prevent high blood pressure.

The Kuna tribe from Panama consume on average five cups of cocoa a day and include cocoa in many of their recipes. They have none of the rises in blood pressure rises that usually occur with age. Ingredients in chocolate called flavanols may promote the production of nitric oxide, which is a chemical that opens up the arteries to increase blood flow.
read more