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Wave to the PC! It’s paying attention
LAS VEGAS - Nintendo Corp.’s Wii game console is a breakout hit in large part because users control the play by waving around a motion-sensing wireless controller. Many new gadgets are taking the idea of such an intuitive interface several steps further. Soon, you may be able to control computers, television sets, even cell phones with hand gestures alone.
What happened to voice activation?

Coming Soon: Spam on Your Printer From the Web
Aaron Weaver has made a discovery the world could probably do without: He’s found a way to spam your printer from the Web.

Report: Feds Probe Girl’s Internet Suicide
A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to MySpace.com in a probe stemming from the suicide of a Missouri teenager who received cruel messages on the networking site that turned out to be a hoax, a newspaper reported.

Sex Ed In Cyberspace
The birds and the bees never sounded like this. Some teens are learning about sex in cyberspace - in a podcast run by a Wisconsin mother.

Stem cell bank proposed
TOKYO (Reuters) - Creating a bank to store a new type of stem cell produced from donors’ ordinary skin cells could help reduce time and money for treating patients with regenerative medicine in the future, a Japanese researcher said on Wednesday. 

FDA Warns Against Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy
The menopause drugs are unregulated and could be dangerous, agency says.

Surprise — Cholesterol May Actually Pose Benefits, Study Shows
ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2008) — If you’re worried about high cholesterol levels and keeping heart-healthy as you get older, don’t push aside bacon and eggs just yet. A new study says they might actually provide a benefit.

Tiny RNA Molecules Control Breast Cancer’s Spread
Finding could lead to better prognosis, treatments, researchers say

Exercising Judgment: The Psychology Of Fitness
Rachel Newson, a psychologist at Flinders University in Australia, looked at this question of what motivates and prevents exercise in adults 63 and over. Barriers to exercise in Newson’s study included “adverse weather conditions” and “not knowing what you’re physically capable of.” But the most common reason her participants didn’t exercise was because of physical ailments and painful joints.

Why It Pays To Be Choosy: The Co-evolution Of Choosiness And Cooperation
ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2008) — Cooperative behaviour is common in many species, including humans. Given that cooperative individuals can often be exploited, it is not immediately clear why such behaviour has evolved.

Chimpanzees May Build Their ‘Cultures’ In A Similar Way To Humans
ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2008) — Socially-learned cultural behaviour thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found.

Spinning molecules cause ice to melt
A new computer simulation shows that frozen water molecules, when heated up, vibrate until they start to spin. The swiveling motion causes the Mickey-Mouse-shaped particles to break free of their ice crystal home, bump into neighboring molecules and start a chain reaction of melting.

Asteroid Impact on Mars Said Less Likely
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Scientists tracking an asteroid approaching Mars say that an impact with the Red Planet has become less likely.

Rogue Black Holes Might Fill Our Galaxy
AUSTIN, Texas — Our home galaxy could be chockfull of rogue black holes that devour anything that crosses their paths, new computer simulations suggest.

Faraway planets collided, merged into one
An extrasolar planet about one-fourth the heft of Jupiter might have formed from the collision and merger of two planets, astronomers announced today.

Vast Cloud Of Antimatter Traced To Binary Stars
ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2008) — Four years of observations from the European Space Agency’s Integral (INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) … found that the cloud extends farther on the western side of the galactic center than it does on the eastern side. This imbalance matches the distribution of a population of binary star systems that contain black holes or neutron stars, strongly suggesting that these binaries are churning out at least half of the antimatter, and perhaps all of it.

Colossal Black Hole Shatters the Scales
AUSTIN, Texas — The most massive black hole in the universe tips the cosmic scales at 18 billion times more massive than the sun, astronomers suggest today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

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