Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
DICK AHLSTROM, Science EditorIT'S A question that could tax the finest pub quiz brains: what country can claim to be the origin of lager? It seems now that scientists have come up with the answer: Argentina.Lager brewing may have begun in Germany 500 years ago, but it would never have ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
By Martyn Cox Last There are many secrets to a happy marriage - but for John and Jennie Makepeace, the key to a successful relationship lies in their breathtaking Dorset garden. Rather than turn their plot into a shared garden, they have created their own contrasting ...
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Adam Riches is the best kept secret of the Fringe - though probably not for much longer. Riches is described as a character comedian but that does little justice to the high-octane, all-round entertainment he brings to Edinburgh this year. It's 60 minutes of brilliantly conceived chaos and I did ...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
ScienceDaily (Aug. 19, 2011) — The corpus delicti is a plain flacon from among the possessions of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who lived around 1450 B.C., which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Bonn. For three and a half millennia, the vessel ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Enlarge The mummified remains of Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, lie in a glass case under the national flag moments before being unveiled at the Cairo Museum in 2007. The Egyptian queen who died 3,500 years ago might have poisoned herself accidentally by using a carcinogenic ...
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Saturday, August 20th, 2011
Seoul, Korea, Republic Of – AppsAsia today is pleased to introduce the hotly anticipated title, Secret of Chateau de Moreau 1.0 from 4:33 Creative Labs, debuts today in the iTunes App Store. The game features an interactive murder-mystery narrative; players navigate through the twists and turns of the story by ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
The innocent-looking canned tuna you buy at the store may have made its way to the supermarket shelf at huge cost to the world's oceans, according to environmental watchdog group Greenpeace. Greenpeace, which made a name for itself in decades past partly by campaigning to "save the whales," is ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
ScienceDaily (Aug. 17, 2011) — Spider thread has five times the tensile strength of steel and is stronger then even the best currently available synthetic fibers. Scientists have now succeeded in unveiling a further secret of silk proteins and the mechanism that imparts spider silk with its strength."The strength ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Kieran Guinness, 62, who breeds racehorses in Ireland, told The Daily Telegraph he remains a close friend of Donleavy, who lives on a 180-acre estate in County Westmeath, but still has no idea when the author first discovered the truth."I’ve no means of knowing whether he knew he wasn’t their ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
A blend of Rogue and Arcane classes, the Artificer uses specially created weapons and mechanical pets to challenge their foes Home of the Artificers, House Cannith is a new high level quest hub where magic and mechanics converge. Born in war, forged in fury, Stormreach faces its most terrible foe ...
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