Controlling Robots With Your Brain Closer Than You Think

Controlling Robots With Your Brain Closer Than You Think: "Honda’s amazing new technology connects thoughts inside a brain with robotics and seems straight out of a weird sci-fi flick."

Change is a cold certainty | The Australian

Change is a cold certainty | The Australian: "Zinchenko's vessel, the Spirit of Enderby, was commissioned in January last year to retrace the steps of the great Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, marking the century of his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09.

Spirit of Enderby was blocked by a wall of pack ice at the entrance to the Ross Sea, about 400km short of Shackleton's base hut at Cape Royds. Zinchenko says it was the first time in 15 years that vessels were unable to penetrate the Ross Sea in January. The experience was consistent with his impression that pack ice is expanding, not contracting, as would be expected in a rapidly warming world. 'I see just more and more ice, not less ice.'"

Cold Fusion Is Hot Again - CBS News

Cold Fusion Is Hot Again - CBS News: "(CBS) Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything.

But then, just as quickly as it was announced, it was discredited. So thoroughly, that cold fusion became a catch phrase for junk science. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to oblivion - for many scientists today, cold fusion is hot again.

'We can yield the power of nuclear physics on a tabletop. The potential is unlimited. That is the most powerful energy source known to man,' researcher Michael McKubre told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley."

Why night owls are cleverer and richer than people who get up early | Mail Online

Why night owls are cleverer and richer than people who get up early | Mail Online: "It has long been held that the early bird catches the worm. But it is the night owl that lasts the distance, research shows."