Meet HRP-4C - Japan's first humanoid female robot.

She's making her debut at Japan Fashion Week.

At 43-kilos, HRP-4C is trying to look like a supermodel.

Her creator, Shuji Kajita, says she's one of a ...   more »

Recycling rates amongst residents of the UK's first development with a
vacuum waste disposal system, are twice the average according to the local
authority.

WEMBLEY CITY DEVELOPMENT, WEMBLEY, LONDON, UK REUTERS -
A hi-tech waste ...   more »

Japan's hay fever robots bring relief from the sneezing,
eye-watering agony of spring.

TOKYO, JAPAN REUTERS -

As Spring approaches, people all over Japan are starting to don
white masks and take medicine to protect ...   more »

The U.N.'s climate change panel may be severely underestimating the sea-level rise caused by global warming, climate scientists say, calling for
swift cuts in greenhouse emissions.

USA REUTERS -
The U.N.'s climate change panel may ...   more »

South Korean team develops cutting edge method for finding source
of snoring.

SEONGNAM, SOUTH KOREA (RECENT) REUTERS -
There is a difference between simple snoring and snoring as a
sympton of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). ...   more »

Rare Mayan panels are discovered in El Mirador, the biggest ancient Mayan city in the world, giving reserachers an insight into the Mayan mythology of the Popol Vuh.


EL MIRADOR, PETEN, GUATEMALA (RECENT) GUATEVISION -
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Japanese researchers have found a group of monkeys in Thailand who
have taught their infants how to floss their teeth.

A research team at Japan's Kyoto University observed the
macaques flossing their teeth with strands ...   more »

- MIT's Liskov, First U.S. Woman Ph.D. in Computer Science, Pioneered the Standard for Modern Programming Language and Software Reliability

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Barbara Liskov of the Massachusetts Institute of ...   more »