NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST RECOGNISES MORE WOMEN THAN MEN FOR FIRST TIME
The actors Penelope Keith and Angela Lansbury are both to become dames in a New Year honours list that, for the first time since the Order of the British Empire […]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
GAME CHANGERS: PLAYING FOR A BETTER WORLD
Games for Change is a non-profit hub that promotes video games as tools for social good, learning and behavior modification. It works with partners and donors to produce projects like […]
SNOWY OWLS APPEAR IN CONNECTICUT IN EXTRAORDINARY NUMBERS IN 50 OR MORE YEARS
It could be rightly said that for the first time in over 50 years, Arctic owl species have appeared in Connecticut in large numbers.
LG TO UNVEIL SMART TV OPERATING SYSTEM
South Korea’s LG Electronics will soon take the veils off a television model that will run on the “webOS” operating system, highlighting its ambition of creating a prominent operating system […]
INTERNET ARCHIVE PUTS CLASSIC 70S AND 80S GAMES ONLINE
Classic video games from the 1970s and 1980s have been put online by the Internet Archive and can be played within a web browser for nothing.
VOLUNTEERS BRING HOLIDAY CHEER TO LA’S POOR, HOMELESS
Volunteers, including some Hollywood celebrities, brought holiday cheer on Christmas Eve to residents of a poor Los Angeles neighborhood known as Skid Row.
BETHLEHEM: CHRISTMAS CROWDS GATHER IN TOWN
Large crowds gathered in the biblical town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations. Tourists packed Manger Square in a party atmosphere, a BBC correspondent says.
YOUTH-DRUG CAN ‘REVERSE’ AGEING IN ANIMAL STUDIES
US scientists have performed a dramatic reversal of the ageing process in animal studies. They used a chemical to rejuvenate muscle in mice and said it was the equivalent of […]
ALGAE CONVERTED TO CRUDE OIL IN UNDER AN HOUR
It used to take a million years to convert algae to oil, but scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), say they have developed a process […]
US HIGH-TECH STARTUP HOPES TO CHANGE BIKING
A U.S. startup is launching a new device that transforms almost any bicycle into an electric-hybrid vehicle using an app on a smartphone.
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