It seems as though our ability to evolve wisely is not keeping pace with the technological revolution, and that all the wonderful new technologies that we have come to rely on are controlling many of us. A survey of 1,300 members of the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) indicates that we are not able to use our mobile phones and Blackberrys wisely, and that they are making our lives more stressful.
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Curiosity soared up into the skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 10.02 on Saturday morning without a hitch. The Mars Rover should, scientists say, revolutionise our understanding of Mars. It has been a long time getting here, but the hunt for life on Mars is on again. Curiosity’s mission is to investigate whether Mars could ever have accomodated microbial life.
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The news in September that Einstein might have got it wrong sent shock waves through the scientific community. This is rather like once claiming that the world was, after all, not flat – heresy! The offending news was the possibility that neutrinos may in fact be able to travel faster than light – something which according to Einstein was impossible since the speed of light was the universe’s upper speed limit. The neutrinos – ‘ghostly’ particles which have no electric charge and no mass – had quite possibly beaten the speed of light by all of 60 nanoseconds in a 454 mile (730km) journey from European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva to the INFN-Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy.
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A newly discovered 47 million year old fossilized moth reveals that prehistoric moths were highly colorful specimens, and not at all like modern day moths that we see every evening hovering around outdoor lights today. The remains of several moth species were found in the Messel oil shale in west central Germany which is well known for yielding well-preserved intricate fossils. The specimens belonging to a group called lepidopterans, which also includes butterflies, is also giving scientists insights into how the moths used escaped their predators millions of years ago.
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