WASHINGTON (AP) — Most people think of evolution occurring gradually over thousands of years, but apparently no one told the Atlantic tomcod….
Day: February 17, 2011
British cave yields ice-age skull cups
LONDON (AP) — Ice age Britons drank from human skulls and may even have eaten flesh and bone marrow, but they were far from barbarians….
Cloud computing: A market for computing power
A new spot market makes cloud computing a commodityLIKE oil or pork bellies, computing capacity is now a tradable commodity. February 14th saw the launch of SpotCloud, the world’s first…
Pollution and global warming: Climate change in black and white
When air pollution hurts people’s health and heats up the climate it makes sense to do something about it. But what about pollution that cools the planet?AN IDEAL fossil-fuel power-plant…