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Brain scans a clue to altruism

ALTRUISM, one of the most difficult human behaviours to define, can be detected in brain scans, US researchers claim.

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Let's use robots to kill people!

A new robot is heading to Iraq this spring which can accurately pinpoint the location of a gun being fired within seconds.

Robot Enhanced Detection Outpost with Lasers (RedOwl) uses sound sensors originally developed for hearing aids, advanced video sensors and neural network programming to back-trace shots to their source.

Magic Wand

Teackle ghost hunters find unexplained event

A group of paranormal investigators think the legends of Teackle Mansion ghosts could be true, particularly in a part of the house where their equipment batteries died and they felt a cold spot.

"There's enough evidence to be suspicious," Christine Power, co-director of Eastern Shore Paranormal, said at a recent meeting of the Somerset County Historical Society.

Magic Wand

Chile's Skies Light Up This Weekend With Comet Mcnaught

Look to the western sky this weekend and see what is being called the most brilliant comet to grace the space around Earth since 1965. Comet McNaught will be visible from most of Chile for the next few days, so hope that the current cloud cover will disappear and set the stage for a beautiful cosmic experience.

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Storm Worm attacking computer users worldwide

Finnish data security firm F-Secure said in a report that computer virus writers have unleashed a new worm on the internet.

This worm was released in wild yesterday when it was delivered through mails to thousands of unsuspecting users.

They call this worm the Storm Worm and it comes in a mail with the subject title: "230 dead as storm batters Europe".

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Controversial Google library project grows

Google announced that another major US college library had joined its controversial project to put the world's books online.

The more than one million written works at the University of Texas library in Austin will be converted to digital format and added to Google Books Library Project, according to the Internet search powerhouse.

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Ancient Reptile Had Two Heads

Scientists have unearthed the fossil of a young, two-headed marine reptile that lived when dinosaurs still walked the Earth.

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Storm Worm virus hits computers - subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe"

HELSINKI - Computer virus writers attacked thousands of computers on Friday using an unusually topical email citing raging European storms, a security company said.

The virus, which the company named "Storm Worm," was emailed to hundreds of thousands of addresses globally with the subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe."

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Chinese missile destroys satellite in space

Britain has joined the US, Japan and Australia's condemnation of China after the communist country destroyed a satellite in space using a ballistic missile.

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Bering land bridge theory disputed

Schoolchildren can recite the story of the first Americans.

About 12,000 years ago, prehistoric humans walked out of Siberia, trekked across the Bering land bridge and down an ice-free corridor into inner North America, where they hunted Ice Age elephants and peopled the new world.

But mounting evidence is slowly turning that story to fiction, said Michael Collins, an archaeologist with the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.