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They should've put a window in there for a laugh ! - Leighton Gough

The tail used as a wing was pretty awesome - Upkar Gata-Aura

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Novak Djokovic have the Centre Court crowd on its feet with some stunning points in their Wimbeldon men's semi-final. - Steve from Bookmarklet

shame one of them had to lose, Tsonga was absolutely immense against Federer - Lachlan

"In 2009, we marveled at GigaPan, technology that sews together hundreds of photos to make a ultra-high-res image that you can zoom in and out of. Now GigaPan has introduced Time Machine -- which adds the miracle of time-lapse photography to create gigapixel-scale videos that you can play forwards and backwards in a range of speeds." - Steve from Bookmarklet

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Steve

Michael Schmidt, a specialist in computational biology, developed an intelligent machine to "uncover the fundamental laws of nature". The machine is able to derive the laws of physics such as gravitation by processing the raw information. - Steve from Bookmarklet

Schmidt's evolutionary computer had found one of the immutable laws of nature: the law of conservation of energy, which says you can never add or take energy away from a system. What had taken scientists hundreds of years to discover took his computer just one day. - Steve

Looks like great fun! - Steve from Bookmarklet

"Taxonomists plan to catalogue all of the world’s species in the next 50 years. This NASA-style initiative, set at the Sustain What? Conference held in New York City this week, will require the identification and classification of approximately 10 million new species. To put that in perspective, only 2 million have been catalogued since binomial nomenclature was first invented in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus." - Steve from Bookmarklet

"Taiwanese researchers have come up with the elegant idea of replacing streetlights with trees, by implanting their leaves with gold nanoparticles. This causes the leaves to give off a red glow, lighting the road for passersby without the need for electric power." - Steve from Bookmarklet

In an added bonus, the luminescence will cause the leaves’ chloroplasts to photosynthesize, which will result in more carbon being captured from the air while the streets are lit. - Steve

"Dentsu London and Berg teamed up to create this stop-motion film, entitled "Making Future Magic." It's driven by a 3D light-painting technique, one I've never seen before: It's extruded from an iPad, like Play-Doh through a press." - Steve from Bookmarklet

Using a Nokia N8 smartphone and a CellScope, the team behind the Wallace & Gromit series has made the world’s smallest stop-motion animation film. Follow 0.35-inch-tall Dot as she runs through an obstacle course made of British currency, rides a bumblebee and stitches her way out of trouble. The music is catchy too. - Steve from Bookmarklet

Thought it would be smaller, cellscope sounds cellular, but it really meant cellphone-scope. So meh - Upkar Gata-Aura

"The Pando aspen clone in Utah is thought to be 80,000 years old, but some think it could be ten times older. It’s hard to guess age and long-term research would have had to begin when humans were starting to emigrate out of Africa. While Pando isn’t technically the oldest individual tree, this clonal colony of Quaking Aspen in Utah is truly ancient, and at 6,615 tons, it is also the heaviest known living organism on earth.. The 105-acre colony is made of genetically identical trees, called stems, connected by a single root system. Pando is located in the Fishlake National Forest, near Fish Lake on the Fish Lake Plateau located at the western edge of the Colorado Plateau in South-central Utah." - Steve from Bookmarklet

"The “trembling giant” got its start at least 80,000 years ago, when all of our human ancestors were still exploring the Great Rift Valley. But some estimate the woodland could be as old as 1 million years, which would mean Pando predates the earliest Homo sapiens by 800,000 years. Some experts speculate that less well-studied Quaking Aspens in Utah may be 80 hectares in extent and one... more... - Steve

"A bear cub in Florida, which had a plastic jar stuck on its head for at least 10 days, has now been freed. The cub, affectionately nicknamed "Jarhead", got its head stuck in the container while rooting through rubbish around the town of Weirsdale. The cub was days away from death as he had not been able to eat or drink, biologists who rescued the bear said. They sedated the mother bear before grabbing the cub, pinning his ears back and prising off the container." - Steve from Bookmarklet

Lagoa Multiphysics, the software creation of Thiago Costa, allows for highly detailed, precisely tunable physics simulations of such phenomena as falling shovelfuls of moist earth, buckets of water being tossed at innocent bunnies, silk sheets crumpling and sliding, and unsavory-looking wobbly extrusions of an undefined plasticky substance that oozes and shivers. - Steve from Bookmarklet

A couple who took a yacht for a quiet sailing trip were stunned when a 40-ton whale crash-landed on their boat off Cape Town. - Steve from Bookmarklet

^ oh dear - Toby Graham

Laura Anness won Miss Cornwall 2010 after claiming to be from Saltash and aged 22 - the upper age limit is 24. She was actually 27 and from Devon. - Steve from Bookmarklet

Discrepancies about her age came to light when it was discovered she had put her age as 22 on entry forms to enter Miss Cornwall in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010. - Steve

Not even that attractive. - Steve

"Earlier this month, over Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, a playful photographer with an eye for the sky took eight images and composed the above intriguing picture. The full fisheye frame shows everything above the horizon, including a lamp-illuminated landscape around the edges, and the zenith of the sky directly overhead." - Steve from Bookmarklet

When Oscar the cat lost both his hind paws in a farming accident, it was feared he'd have to trundle around in one of those wheeled-cat apparatuses. But Noel Fitzpatrick, a neuro-orthopedic veterinary surgeon in Surrey, pioneered a groundbreaking technique instead, installing weight-bearing bone implants to create a bionic kitty. - Steve from Bookmarklet

ICARUS'S wings melted when he flew too close to the sun. Here's hoping a similar fate doesn't befall his namesake, the solar sail due to be unfurled by Japan's aerospace exploration agency (JAXA) next week. If all goes to plan, it will be the first spacecraft fully propelled by sunlight. - Steve from Bookmarklet

On the left you can see the surface of Mars: that’s frozen carbon dioxide — dry ice — covering the ground. The red brick-like pattern to the right of the ice is actually the face of a scarp, a steep cliff. We’re looking almost straight down on it, so it’s foreshortened, but don’t let that fool you; it’s 700 meters (2000 feet) high! On the right is the greyish floor, dusty basaltic rock. You can see sand dunes rippling across it, as well as a few boulders here and there. - Steve from Bookmarklet

Thanks L8!! - Steve

This tiny creature may not look spectacular, but it is one of the most remarkable ever discovered: the first that can survive and reproduce entirely without oxygen. - Steve from Bookmarklet

As well as proving that animals that don't have to breathe oxygen have already evolved on Earth, it bolsters claims that complex animals can evolve on other planets even if there's no oxygen. Some have speculated, for example, that sulphur-rich areas of Mars might support life. - Steve

At first sight, this Lego version of the world's most expensive street car—the Bugatti Veyron—looks like just a nice reproduction. And then you see the video, and realize it's actually an RC car with a 7+R sequential gearbox. - Steve from Bookmarklet

VID - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Steve

A movie inspired by numbers, geometry and nature. - Steve from Bookmarklet

That was pretty good never thought about Fibonacci visually before. - Leighton Gough

Regardless of the mathematical aspects i just thought it was a well put together production. - Steve

Square Enix has released re-vamped editions of the classic roleplaying games Final Fantasy I and II for iPhone. They’ll set you back £5.49 a pop. - Steve from Bookmarklet

Anyone played yet? I am going to soon, but havent had time yet. - willdarling

I have bought FF1, plays pretty well. I never played the original NES versions so i cant say how it differs. Im a few hours in and im enjoying it. The only gripe i have is the movement controls feel a bit clunky, but in battles its smooth sailing. - Steve

Why does a volcanic eruption sometimes create lightning? Pictured above, the Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan was caught erupting early last month. Magma bubbles so hot they glow shoot away as liquid rock bursts through the Earth's surface from below. The above image is particularly notable, however, for the lightning bolts caught near the volcano's summit. Why lightning occurs even in common thunderstorms remains a topic of research, and the cause of volcanic lightning is even less clear. - Steve from Bookmarklet

"Hewlett-Packard has embarked on a ten-year mission, a “Central Nervous System for the Earth,” to embed up to a trillion pushpin-size sensors around the globe. H.P. researchers, combining electronics and nanotechnology expertise, announced in November that they had developed sensors with accelerometers that were up to 1,000 times more sensitive than the commercial motion detectors used in Nintendo Wii video game controllers and some smartphones." HP's goal to connect the physical world to computing as never before," using so-called "smart dust" sensors to enable "buildings that manage their own energy use, bridges that sense motion and metal fatigue, cars that track traffic patterns and report potholes, and fruit and vegetable shipments that tell grocers when they ripen and begin to spoil."" - Steve from Bookmarklet

A "space diver" will try to smash the nearly 50-year-old record for the highest jump this year, becoming the first person to go supersonic in freefall. The stunt could help engineers design escape systems for space flights. On 16 August 1960, US Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger made history by jumping out of a balloon at an altitude of some 31,333 metres. "I stood up and said a prayer and stepped off," he recalled (see Space diving: The ultimate extreme sport). Since then, many have tried to break that record but none have succeeded – New Jersey native Nick Piantanida actually died trying in 1965. Now Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner has announced he will make the attempt, with help from Kittinger and sponsorship from the energy drink company Red Bull. - Steve from Bookmarklet

In the late morning of 12 July 2008, the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) received an unexpected call from the U.S. Coast Guard, reporting an explosive volcanic eruption in the central Aleutians in the vicinity of Okmok volcano, a relatively young 2000-year-old caldera. The Coast Guard had received an emergency call requesting assistance from a family living at a cattle ranch on the flanks of the volcano, who reported loud “thunder,” lightning, and noontime darkness due to ashfall. - Steve from Bookmarklet