Online Valentine cards may contain Internet worm, FBI warns
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Valentine’s Day e-greetings from a stranger could deliver more than the recipient bargained for in the shape of a destructive “Trojan horse” that hijacks computers, the FBI warned Tuesday.

Use of Rogue DNS Servers on Rise 
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – They’re called “servers that lie.” Mendacious machines controlled by hackers that reroute Internet traffic from infected computers to fraudulent Web sites are increasingly being used to launch attacks

Phone viruses to spread as telecom, computer worlds merge, say experts
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) – Viruses and hacking on mobile phones are still rare but attacks are a looming danger as increasing numbers of people access the Internet and download files with their handsets, experts say.

Nanotechnology Lends A Hand With ‘Self-cleaning’ Wool And Silk Fabrics
ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2008) — Wool skirts and silk ties may avoid those pricey trips to the dry-cleaner in the future and clean themselves, researchers in Australia and China suggest. They report development of a nanoparticle coating that could lead to “self-cleaning” wool and silk fabrics.

Disney revives ‘House of the Future’
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Millions of Disneyland visitors will soon get to retrace the thoughts of others who lined up a half-century ago to see a home packed with mind-blowing gadgets expected in the future.

Wireless Monitoring Of People And Things: Future Of Social Networking?
ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2008) — If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you’re hunting down a person or a thing, a computer’s not much help. That may soon change. Electronic tags promise to create what some call the “Internet of things,” in which objects and people are connected through a virtual network.
Sounds like much too much information to me.  How will we keep it from being misused?

What Men And Women Say And Do In Choosing Romantic Partners Are Two Different Matters
ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2008) — When it comes to romantic attraction men primarily are motivated by good looks and women by earning power. At least that’s what men and women have been saying for a long time. Based on research that dates back several decades, the widely accepted notion permeates popular culture today.

‘Love Hormone’ Promotes Bonding: Could It Treat Anxiety?
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine are studying whether the brain hormone released with touches, hugs, or when a mother and her newborn baby bond might help patients with schizophrenia, social anxiety and a variety of other disorders. Oxytocin is a brain chemical associated with pair bonding, including mother-infant and male-female bonds, increased paternal involvement with children, and monogamy in certain rodents

Children Who Have An Active Father Figure Have Fewer Psychological And Behavioral Problems
ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2008) — Active father figures have a key role to play in reducing behaviour problems in boys and psychological problems in young women, according to a review published in the February issue of Acta Paediatrica.

Drug-Coated Balloons Keep Leg Arteries Open: Study
Small German trial could be a breakthrough treatment in vascular disease.

Cancer Drug Works Against MS in Early Trial
Promising results need to be replicated in larger study, experts caution

Tango Classes Put Parkinson’s Patients a Step Ahead
Findings suggest spins, turns of the passionate dance improve mobility, balance

Many Prostate Cancers Will Not Need Treatment
Major study finds most older men will die of other causes

Gorillas Caught in Very Human Act
Gorillas have been caught on camera for the first time performing face-to-face intercourse. Humans and bonobos were the only primates thought to mate in this manner. And while researchers have observed wild gorillas engaged in such an act, it had never been photographed.

African dinosaur duo ate like sharks
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Fossils from two newly discovered meat-eating dinosaurs that lived in the Sahara Desert 110 million years ago paint a fearsome picture of life in Africa’s Cretaceous period, which appears to have been teeming with unusual carnivores. 

Laser light creates black holes in the lab
IMAGINE being able to peek inside a black hole and even perform experiments there. It may not be as far-fetched as it sounds, thanks to a team which claims to have simulated a black hole’s event horizon in the lab.  Ulf Leonhardt at the University of St Andrews, UK, and his colleagues accomplished the feat by firing lasers down an optical fibre, exploiting the fact that different wavelengths of light move at different speeds within an optical fibre.

Loneliest Observatory in Antarctica Looks to the Stars
A new robotic observatory at the highest point of the Antarctic Plateau will continuously survey the skies on its own for almost a year. The coldest and driest place on Earth makes an ideal location for stargazing without much in the way of clouds or bad weather — not to mention Antarctica’s four months of complete darkness.

February’s Red Moon: Lunar Eclipse On 21 February
ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2008) — People across the western hemisphere may be surprised to see a rust-coloured Moon in the sky on 21 February. Early that morning (the evening of the 20 February for observers in North and South America) will be this year’s first and only total eclipse of the Moon.

Titan Has More Oil Than Earth
Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists said today.

Triple Asteroid Found Near Earth
The first triple asteroid near Earth has been discovered… It was originally found in 2001, but new observations with the radar telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico reveal it is three gravitationally bound rocks.

Young Stars In Their Baby Blanket Of Dust
ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2008) — Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in  a new dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Called “Rho Oph” by astronomers, it’s one of the closest star-forming regions to our own solar system. Located near the constellations Scorpius and Ophiuchus, the nebula is about 407 light years away from Earth.