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Android and iOS “duopoly” monopolizes 92% of global smartphones in Q4

, Jan 28th 2013 Discuss [0]

Android and iOS dominated 92-percent of smartphones shipping in Q4 2012, according to new statistics, though Google's OS was the undeniable platform king in what "has effectively become a duopoly." Sales in the smartphone industry were up 38-percent year on year, according to Strategy Analytics, but it's primarily a win for Google and Apple, with near half a billion Android devices alone shipped in 2012 as a whole. Read The Full Story

Dung beetle rolls balls of poo by navigating via the Milky Way

, Jan 25th 2013 Discuss [0]

Dung beetles are rather disgusting little bugs. They live off the excrement of other animals. Not only do they eat the poo, they also roll it into balls. While I've never considered how a dung beetle would actually go about creating its ball of feces, apparently the insects use a remarkable method. Read The Full Story

Genetics allowing for a starchy diet turned wolves into man’s best friend

, Jan 24th 2013 Discuss [0]

My daughter has asked me several times why dogs are dogs and wolves are wolves. She's trying to understand why wolves, which look like dogs, are wild and can be dangerous to humans. According to scientists, genetics played a part in turning wolves into the domesticated dogs that we know and love today. Read The Full Story

Evidence suggests a gamma ray burst irradiated the earth 1200 years ago

, Jan 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Scientists have recently uncovered evidence that in the year 775 the Earth was pummeled with a giant burst of radiation. The radiation left evidence behind on the earth in tree rings that formed during the year, which show high levels of radioactive compounds. The scientists say that evidence suggests the gamma ray burst was very short. Read The Full Story

Deep Space Industries plans to launch FireFly prospectors in 2015

, Jan 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

The thought of venturing into space, grabbing hold of a giant asteroid, and mining the asteroid for precious metals and other items sounds like pure science fiction. However, there are two companies in the United States that intend to do this very thing. The two companies are Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries (DSI). Read The Full Story

iPhone the Q4 smartphone champ says Kantar as Android deserters grow

, Jan 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Apple's iOS clung to the top-spot for smartphone platform share in the US in Q4 2012, new research suggests, maintaining more than half of the market, though the gap between AT&T and Verizon sales has narrowed. iPhones made up 51.2-percent of the US smartphone sales, Kantar World Panel claims, while Android dropped a little to 44.2-percent, a fall of just 0.6-percent year-on-year. Read The Full Story

Antarctic Explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton’s rare Scotch returned to the frozen wilds

, Jan 21st 2013 Discuss [0]

Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was a famous explorer of the frozen wilds. Shackleton had a ramshackle hut in Antarctica where he lived during his expedition. Underneath the floorboards of this shack researchers discovered bottles of a rare 19th-century Scotch whiskey. Read The Full Story

Silver sheath of death kills STDs

, Jan 21st 2013 Discuss [0]

A group of researchers from Canada has announced that they have devised a new silver nanoparticle coating for condoms that could help to completely inactivate HIV and other STDs. According to the researchers, condoms have a 15% failure rate and to help improve the effectiveness of condoms the team of researchers from the University of Manitoba soaked condoms in a solution packed with microscopic silver nanoparticles. Read The Full Story

Intel is hard at work on technology to help Stephen Hawking communicate

, Jan 21st 2013 Discuss [0]

Stephen Hawking is widely considered to be one of the most brilliant physicists in the world. The problem for Hawking is that he has a deteriorating medical condition that leaves him progressively unable to control the muscles in his body. Hawking has been confined to a wheelchair due to a degenerative motor neuron disease that he has had for 50 years. Read The Full Story

Scientists at Cambridge University find quadruple helix DNA in human cells

, Jan 21st 2013 Discuss [0]

If you've ever studied genetics in school or college, you'll know that the structure of DNA is a double helix. You likely know that DNA carries all of our genetic code. While traditionally we think of only double helix DNA, scientists from Cambridge University in England have made an interesting discovery. Read The Full Story

Archaeologists find no buried World War II surplus Spitfires in Burma

, Jan 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

Last April archaeologists left for a very interesting dig in Burma. The archaeologists were out to find a number of British Spitfire fighter aircraft that were allegedly buried as surplus after World War II. The story went that in 1945 a number of aircraft were shipped from the manufacturer to Burma in their standard shipping crates. Read The Full Story

NASA says 2012 was 9th-warmest year on record

, Jan 17th 2013 Discuss [0]

Still don't believe in global warming? It's certainly a debatable topic that can lead to some heated discussions, as proven yesterday. However, climate scientists at NASA have discovered that 2012 was the 9th-warmest year on record since the 1880s. They also note that the last year the Earth showed cooler-than-normal temperatures was 1976. Read The Full Story
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