Sensitive military files readily available online
Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq. Geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad. Plans for a new fuel farm at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

New Supercomputer is Fastest Yet
Running about 100,000 times faster than a high-end desktop PC, IBM has unveiled the world’s fastest computer. Already, it’s not fast enough. The new king of the supercomputers is the IBM Blue Gene/P running at a speed of at least one petaflop per second, meaning it can solve one quadrillion floating point math problems per second.

iPod Helped Lightning Jolt Jogger
(HealthDay News) — It wasn’t playing his swan song, but the iPod a Canadian runner wore during a thunderstorm may have worsened his lightning-related injuries, physicians say.

The Secret to More Useful Robots: Tai Chi Training
More graceful robots could better handle boring household chores that require smooth, coordinated movements, just like the robotic maid Rosey helped the cartoon TV-series Jetsons dust tables, clean windows and vacuum floors.

Researchers Develop Regret-Free Tattoo
For anyone who worries they might one day be jilted or might eventually want their cryptic body symbols removed, there’s a new tattoo process that can be permanent or removed at the wearer’s discretion.

Breast tumor genes no hinder to cancer survival
BOSTON (Reuters) – Women who develop breast cancer because they carry one of three defective genes are no less likely to survive over the long term than other breast cancer patients, Canadian and Israeli researchers said on Wednesday.

Kids Living Near School Rarely Walk There: Study
WEDNESDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) — Even though one out of three American children live within a mile of their school, barely half of those students regularly bike or walk to class, researchers report. Children who live in the South, in rural areas or who have college-educated parents are among those least likely to bike or walk to school, notes the report.

Joke Comprehension May Decrease With Age
ST. LOUIS (AP) – It’s no laughing matter: a new study suggests older adults have a harder time getting jokes as they age. The research indicates that because older adults may have greater difficulty with cognitive flexibility, abstract reasoning and short-term memory, they also have greater difficulty with tests of humor comprehension.

Uninsured Americans Raise Medicare Expenditures
WEDNESDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) — Americans who weren’t insured before they reached age 65 and gained access to Medicare cost the program a lot more than those who did have health insurance, a new study finds.

Study: Women Are in Charge at Home
Men might throw their weight around at the office, but at home, women are the bosses. A study, which was just released, finds that wives have more power than their husbands in making decisions and dominating discussions.
Supposedly Albert Einstein once said that he and his (second) wife had agreed that he would make all the big decisions and she would make all the little ones, but that in many years of marriage there had never been a big decision to make.

Clever Apes Recreate an Aesop Fable
Orangutans are bright enough to use water as a tool, a finding that researchers say is straight out of Aesop’s Fables. Five orangutans at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany were each shown shelled peanuts. The nuts floated out of reach inside a clear 10-inch-high plastic tube quarter-filled with water. All of the orangutans collected water from a drinker and spat it inside the tube to float the peanuts high enough to grab them, averaging three mouthfuls before success.

Found, a perfect baby mammoth
A baby mammoth has been uncovered in the permafrost of north-west Siberia. The six-month-old frozen female calf is so well preserved that it looks as if it died only days ago, reviving hopes that the hairy beasts could one day walk the Earth again. The creature, 4ft 3in tall and 110lb, is likely to be more than 9,000 years old – around the time they were vanishing from the grassy plains of the northern hemisphere at the end of the last ice age. The eyes are still intact, the trunk has a notch at the end that is rarely seen, and some fur remains on the body.
Click through to see the photograph.  It’s amazing.

NASA craft will study Mars’ icy North Pole
Preparations are on track for the launch of a new NASA Mars lander early next month to search for subsurface water and potential life in the Red Planet’s arctic northern region.

‘Clear signs of water’ on distant planet
Scientists have found the spectral imprints of water vapor in starlight filtered through the atmosphere of a giant gas planet outside our solar system.

Volunteers requested to sort galactic census
Scientists want Internet users to help them sort through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies.