Physicist Stephen Hawking has done it again. This time he’s sent shock waves around the world by arguing that God didn’t create the universe; it was created spontaneously. Shocking or not, he actually understated the case. For over 2,000 years the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" has captured theologians and philosophers. While [...]

The real deal on owning a velomobile One fateful day back in 1984, I read an article in Popular Science entitled “Pedal-power slingshot.” It was about a vehicle called the Cyclodyne, which was a recumbent human-powered tricycle enclosed in a full polyester-and-epoxy streamlined shell. The writer claimed that he had easily got the thing up [...]

U-boat Worx personal submarines go deep water Using the same technology proven in its existing C-Quester models, which can dive to depths of up to 100m (328 feet), Dutch luxury submarine manufacturer U-Boat Worx has announced a new line of exploration submersibles certified for diving to depths from 100 to 1,000m (328 to 3,280-feet). Named [...]

By STEPHEN HAWKING And LEONARD MLODINOW According to Viking mythology, eclipses occur when two wolves, Skoll and Hati, catch the sun or moon. At the onset of an eclipse people would make lots of noise, hoping to scare the wolves away. After some time, people must have noticed that the eclipses ended regardless of whether [...]

The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded. Photo: GETTY The scientist has claimed that no divine force was needed to explain why the Universe was formed. In his latest book, The Grand Design, an [...]

When plants are damaged, they emit a fragrance called green leaf volatiles, or G.L.V.’s. Most people have gotten a whiff of it — it is the smell of freshly cut grass. But in the case of at least one type of wild tobacco plant found in the Great Basin desert of southwest Utah, it is [...]

New high-speed, low-cost water purifying nanofilter developed As their name suggests, most existing water purifying filters clean the water by physically trapping or filtering out bacteria. Stanford researchers have now developed a new kind of water purifying filter that isn’t really a filter at all. Instead of trapping bacteria, the new filter actually lets them [...]

“Hammered” But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that – for reasons that aren’t entirely clear – abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one’s risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers’ mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers. [...]

Swimsense monitors your aquatic workout Joggers and cyclists have all kinds of technological wizardry at their fingertips – or wrists – to let them no how they’re performing. Now there’s an easy way for swimmers to keep track of their aquatic exertions in the form of the Swimsense from FINIS. This watch-sized device is worn [...]

Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs. Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the [...]