A third of all women have experienced post-sex blues at some point, a study shows, but researchers still don’t understand why. The period immediately after sex normally results in feelings of well-being, and mental and physical relaxation. But the study of more than 200 young women reveals many have experienced the reverse, including feelings of [...]
Mercury, the small, hot, innermost planet with an odd sense of time, is about to give up its secrets – the first spacecraft to orbit the planet is beginning to send back pictures of the pockmarked surface. After a 6½-year journey of more than 7.9 billion kilometres to reach Mercury, the Messenger probe will observe [...]
Australian researchers have reached a milestone in their quest to build a bionic eye, with the development of a microchip to be inserted into the retina of vision-impaired patients. The microchip, the engine of the implant, is tiny at only five square millimetres, and would be implanted into a patient’s eye. About 100 chips have [...]
An airline stewardess struggling to lift her bag at a German airport led to the discovery of a €6 million (NZ$11.1m) coin fraud. The customs officer who stopped the stewardess in early 2010 found thousands of one and two euro coins in her bag, Bild newspaper reported. The incident sparked an investigation that has uncovered [...]
Canadian pop star Michael Buble has married Argentine TV actress Luisana Lopilato in a civil ceremony. The Grammy-winning singer of Crazy Love and his Argentine sweetheart posed for a mob of fans after tying the knot at a civil registry in downtown Buenos Aires. She wore a lilac chiffon dress with silver high heels and [...]
A European spacecraft has mapped the Earth’s gravity with unrivalled precision – a feat that may ultimately help scientists predict earthquakes. The five-metre Gravity and Ocean Circulation Explorer, or Goce, circles the Earth at an altitude of 250km and uses an ion rocket to prevent it losing height as it flies through wisps of atmosphere. [...]
NEW ORLEANS – Federal scientists say they have dated coral living near the site of the busted BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico at 2,000 years old. The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday it had determined the age of the black coral in the Gulf for the first time. Scientists had been studying [...]
Microsoft asked European regulators Thursday to go after Google on antitrust grounds, accusing the search giant of trying to “entrench its dominance” on the Web. It’s a major escalation in the war between the two tech titans. Microsoft and other Google foes say Google’s powerful search engine and its move into other markets — from [...]
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