We always have a better chance to succeed in things which we understand and where we know underlying principles and laws, as opposed to things we do not understand. Let’s see how understanding sleep mechanics can help you sleep better and wake up earlier. The principles of how sleep works are quite simple (well, at [...]

What's blue and white, squiggly and suddenly appears in the sky? If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday. Speculation was increasing today that the display was the result of an embarrassing failed test launch of a [...]

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The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it’s preparing to release 500,000 intercepted pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11 terrorist attacks. Site operators say they plan to start rolling out the texts beginning at 3am New York time (8am GMT), paced to display as they were broadcast at the corresponding time on September [...]

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. via BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | What happened to global warming?.