It sounds like the stuff of science fiction - beetles, rats and sharks turned into cunning spies courtesy of a brain implant or two. But such scenarios are fast moving from fantasy to fact, with laboratories around the world hatching a new breed of spy. Moths, beetles, rats, pigeons and sharks have been installed with electrodes, batteries and even video cameras in an attempt to create the ultimat... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

British spies and Whitehall officials are studying the deduction techniques of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes to prevent intelligence failures. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Weight discrimination "occurs in employment settings and daily interpersonal relationships virtually as often as race discrimination, and in some cases even more frequently than age or gender discrimination, picked by doggylives 6 months ago

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a baby star 1,140 light-years away from Earth blowing two massive "bubbles." But instead of bubble gum, this youngster, called HH 46/47, is using powerful jets of gas to make bubbles in outer space. Bigger picture. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Leave it to the British to figure out a way to shame homeowners into making their houses more energy efficient. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Apparently they're looking for Osama in Azeroth.

First post on Plime, hope I did all right! picked by Koruzarius 7 months ago

What has appeared as a mild-mannered elliptical galaxy in previous studies is revealing its wild side in new images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble photos show shells of stars around a bright quasar, known as MC2 1635+119, which dominates the center of the galaxy. The shells' presence indicates a titanic clash with another galaxy in the relatively recent past. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago