South Korea to build robot theme parks
Forget Disneyland. South Korea hopes to draw interest to its burgeoning robotics industry with robot theme parks.

Microsoft patches a ‘critical’ hole
SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. issued two security fixes in a regular monthly update Tuesday, including one that removes a dangerous bug in all versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Middle Earth calling: Lord of the Rings on mobile
LONDON (Reuters) – The Lord of the Rings went 21st century on Tuesday — theatregoers can now purchase tickets for the London musical by mobile phone.

Giving 2.0
Social networking through the Internet is changing the way people learn about causes and decide where they’ll contribute.

Scientists claim to clone monkey embryos
NEW YORK – Scientists in Oregon say they’ve reached the long-sought goal of cloning monkey embryos and extracting stem cells from them, a potentially major step toward doing the same thing in people.

Unknown health impact of nanotech worries some
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Nanotechnology has been hailed as the science of the future, with micro-particles already powering innovations that remove lines from faces, strengthen beer bottles and clean clothing without water.

FDA Mulls Direct Pharmacist-to-Patient Drug Sales
‘Behind-the-counter’ dispensing means doctor’s prescriptions wouldn’t be needed for certain meds
I’ve long thought that we under-utilize the training of pharmacists.  This would be another step in removing doctors’ stranglehold on medical care.

Breast-Feeding Cuts Food Allergy Risk
Other studies yield insights into these types of allergens, experts say

U.S. Chlamydia Infections Hit All-Time High
Million-plus cases reported, as gonorrhea, syphilis rates rise for 2nd year in a row, CDC says.

A Full and Long Life, Despite Diabetes
It’s all about attitude, say hardy seniors who were first diagnosed in childhood.

Low-Carb Diet May Slow Prostate Tumor Growth
Mouse study could have implications for humans, researchers say

Meat vs. Potatoes: What Our Ancestors Liked
Chimpanzees prefer to dig for tubers and roots even when aboveground snacks are plentiful, a finding that bears on questions about humans’ preferences for meat versus potatoes.

Why Some Animals Eat Their Offspring
[Researchers] found that several factors contributed to parents developing a taste for their own offspring. In some cases, cannibalizing their own young puts the same evolutionary pressure on the eggs that a predator would: the faster the eggs develop, the greater their chances of survival. Cannibalism was also found to increase the parent’s reproductive rate… Some energy benefit to eating the eggs was also observed, but no one benefit alone accounted for the spread of filial cannibalism through the population.

Wow! Moon Probe Captures ‘Earth-rise’ in High Definition
A Japanese moon probe has replicated the famous Apollo-era “Earth-rise” photograph with modern high-definition imaging… The new Earth-rise image shows our blue world floating in the blackness of space. Released today, it is a still shot taken from video made by the craft’s high-definition television (HDTV) for space.

Scientists See Early Universe in Grains of Sand
A new study in the latest issue of the journal Physical Review Letters finds that flowing sand grains show liquid-like behavior also witnessed in particle-collider experiments that simulate our universe’s first moments.