allo spider

'Spider silk is already tougher and lighter than steel, and now scientists have made it three times stronger by adding small amounts of metal.

The technique may be useful for manufacturing super-tough textiles and high-tech medical materials, including artificial bones and tendons...'

Optimum Population Trust

Sir David Attenborough said yesterday that the growth in global population was frightening, as he became a patron of an organisation that campaigns to limit the number of people in the world.

The television presenter and naturalist said that the increase in population was having devastating effects on ecology, pollution and food production.

“There are three times as many people in the world as when I started making television programmes only a mere 56 years ago,”

the sad slide into addiction

'The dux of a Sydney girls' school describes MySpace as MyEnemy, Jennifer Aniston reportedly dumps her boyfriend because of his Twitter addiction, and China successfully enforces time limits on teenage internet gamers.

This is a snapshot from the frontier of cyberspace, where mankind's new technological marvels are imposing burdens on brain cells they were never designed for, rewiring the architecture of our synapses and perhaps even changing what it means to be human...'