Archive for March 11th, 2009

Amazon sensitive to drought

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

A report says the Amazon is “surprisingly” sensitive to drought. What’s so surprising? Any tropical ecosystem will be sensitive to drought. The surprising part actually is that a tropical ecosystem should come to a drought like situation, engineered by us insensitive humans.

Ape plans ahead like humans

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Researchers are fascinated by a chimp, who carefully collected rocks and hurled them later at zoo visitors, confirming that apes can plan ahead just like us humans.

Wheelchair obeys mental signals

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Electrodes on the scalp of the user link to a computer in the wheelchair that “obeys” the signal sent when the user focuses on the name of destination displayed on a screen.