Study: More Than Half of America Use Facebook

According to Research, more than half of all Americans aged 12 or older are now on Facebook. The study showed that 51 percent of these Americans are on the site. 

Stanford Researchers Discover a New Phase of Matter

A team of researchers has discovered the strongest evidence yet that a puzzling gap in the electronic structures of some high-temperature superconductors could indicate a new phase of matter. Understanding this 'pseudogap' has been a 20-year quest for researchers who are trying to find superconductors that operate at room temperature.

Japan Crisis: Nuclear Workers Exposed to 10,000 Times More Radiation than Normal

The containment vessel of reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may be ruptured after three workers within the plant stepped into water that contained "10,000 times the amount" of radiation that is normal for that area.

NASA Retires Comet-Hunting Stardust Spacecraft

NASA's comet-hunting Stardust spacecraft ended its 12-year career with a final experiment. The probe, which has traveled billions of miles since its launch in 1999, was ordered to burn the remaining fuel in its tanks, allowing engineers to calculate how much was left and improve fuel consumption models. "I think this is a fitting end for Stardust. It's going down swinging," a NASA engineer said.

Japan Is Building Artificially Intelligent Rockets

Artificially intelligent rockets could perform self-diagnostics and self-repairs, lowering the cost of future space launches. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency is working on an intelligent rocket to supplement its current lift vehicle, and it would be cheaper and simpler to use, engineers say.

Astronomers Find Coldest Star in the Universe

Astronomers have found a star that's only as hot as a cup of coffee, making it a candidate for the coldest star known. That is, assuming it's a star. While a cup of coffee may sound hot - the newly discovered object is about 200 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius) - our sun is about 10,000 degrees F (5,500 degrees C). So, by comparison, it really is quite cold.

Facebook Bans 20,000 Kids a Day

Although Facebook requires all users to be 13 or older, the social network bans 20,000 underage users a day, a spokeswoman said. "There are people who lie. There are people who are under 13 [accessing Facebook]," Mozelle Thompson, Facebook's chief privacy adviser, told the The Telegraph (Sydney, Australia). "Facebook removes 20,000 people a day, people who are underage."

Rollerphone - High-Tech Bracelet Concept Phone

Rollerphone phone is a high-tech phone, it features perfect ergonomics and anthropometry in design, Rollerphone also boasts of an enviable media centre. You can watch videos, chat online, play games, read books and listen to music. It’s going to be hard parting with a phone like this, who wouldn’t want their entire digital world on their wrist!

Virtual Facebook Thief Jailed For Two Years

A British hacker has been jailed for two years after becoming a multimillionaire by breaching the service’s security featured. Ashley Mitchell, 29 of Devon, managed to break into Zynga’s main servers, steal the account details of two staff members and transfer poker chips worth over £7 million to his own account.

Japanese Scientists Develop Solar-Powered Star Wars Droid

We all know that Japanese have a flair for inventing new things and are never bogged down by tough situations. Currently battling with the disaster caused by the massive earthquake and tsunami that wreaked havoc on the country on March 11, the Japanese scientists are still not giving up their passion to develop new devices. Two scientists of Hiroshima International University, Yosuke Kimura and Daisuke Goto, have defied all odds to develop a robot that runs on solar power. The Star Wars robot is set to find many takers in the near future as it uses two solar panels to supply power to the robot when there is unavailability of normal power.

Hexacopter Can Detect Motion and Breathing

TiaLinx Inc. of California has debuted a long-standoff mini-UAV that acts as a motion detector and can detect the breathing of people in hiding. The Phoenix40-A unmanned aerial vehicle can be programmed to fly to or land at multiple waypoints and has been integrated with TiaLinx's fine beam ultra-wideband, multi-Gigahertz radio frequency sensor array.

Mechanical Insect Hovers With Printed Wings

So-called 3D printers are capable of printing objects out of metal, glass, plastic, even sugar and mashed potatoes. And now they're being used to print delicate, transluscent wings for mechanical insects. Until now, making wings for machines that can effectively mimic the flight of insects and birds has proven a delicate and time-consuming process taking days or longer to complete. "Production of an untethered, flapping-hovering machine itself is very challenging, and only a few have been made successfully to date," said researcher Hod Lipson, a roboticist at Cornell University.

Endangered Kittens Are Born Using In-Vitro Fertilization

Scientist hoping to help along endangered species have had luck breeding kittens for African black-footed cats. The sperm was taken from a male in 2003 and then an egg was fertilized in 2005 but then the embryo was kept frozen until just recently when it was placed in a surrogate mother who gave birth successfully in late February. Perhaps this process will be able to help conserve other species and hopefully it might go a little faster than 7 years. The embryo from one species can be placed with a surrogate cat from another species so this may help with very rare species.

World's First Anti-Cancer Remote-Controlled Microcarriers

Soon, drug delivery that precisely targets cancerous cells without exposing the healthy surrounding tissue to the medication's toxic effects will no longer be an oncologist's dream but a medical reality, thanks to the work of Professor Sylvain Martel, Director of the Nanorobotics Laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal. Known for being the world's first researcher to have guided a magnetic sphere through a living artery, Professor Martel is announcing a spectacular new breakthrough in the field of nanomedicine. Using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, his team successfully guided microcarriers loaded with a dose of anti-cancer drug through the bloodstream of a living rabbit, right up to a targeted area in the liver, where the drug was successfully administered. This is a medical first that will help improve chemoembolization, a current treatment for liver cancer.

17-Year-Old Wins Intel's $100K Science Prize

A California teenager who cracked a complex mathematical equation has been awarded the Intel Science Talent Search's $100,000 first-place prize. Evan O'Dorney, 17, won the prize for "his mathematical project in which he compared two ways to estimate the square root of an integer. [He] discovered precisely when the faster way would work," Intel announced Wednesday.

Teen Cancels Party After 200,000 RSVP on Facebook

An Australian teen who had to shut down an event page on Facebook after more than 200,000 people RSVPed for her sweet 16 party now has more than 70,000 people who have signed up to attend her new party. The girl named Jess called police Monday to say her Facebook account had been hijacked after thousands said they’d attend her birthday party in Chatswood in New South Wales on March 26.

Pepsi Unveils Eco-Friendly Bottles

On Tuesday PepsiCo Inc. unveiled a new bottle for Pepsi entirely made of plant material to reduce potential carbon footprint. The bottle is made from switch grass, pine bark, corn husks and other materials. Ultimately, Pepsi plans to also use orange peels, oat hulls, potato scraps and other leftovers from its food business. This new bottle looks, feels and protects the drink inside exactly the same as its current bottles, said Rocco Papalia, senior vice president of advanced research at PepsiCo.

Google's 3D Version of London, Royal Wedding Route

On royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29 in London, U.K. all media will capture the imagination of a global audience. Google also took part in it by capturing 3D imagery of central London’s buildings and trees in Google Earth—including the entire royal procession route.

Facebook Adds Ability to Easily Tag Others In Comments

Facebook users can now tag their friends, Pages, Groups, and Events in comments to news feed stories and wall posts to create linked mentions. This will help users carry on conversations with other commenters and allow them to easily reference different entities on Facebook. Users can type an “@” symbol to initiate the tag drop-down menu in comments. Until this release, some users had taken to manually typing @[first name] without it properly linking in order to create unofficial mentions in comments. When a user is tagged, they’ll receive an notification stating that a friend “mentioned you in a comment.”

Adept Quattro Robot Sets World Record for iPhone Game

The Adept Quattro robot takes just 6.6 seconds to complete the game, which requires that you press the numbers 1 through 50 in succession. This is harder than you think, like playing a less complicated, faster version of Sudoku. Quattro now tops the leaderboards, obviously. The robot was specifically designed for high-speed applications in packaging, manufacturing, assembly, and material handling, so it’s supposed to be a quick draw.