Viktor Yuschenko about patching KDE2 under FreeBSD

Most weirdest animals and creatures in the world:
Aye-aye Tapir The Philippine Tarsier Star-nosed Mole The Narwhal Hagfish Blobfish ...

Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time. Based on the paper of George Johnson in The New York Times we list below 10 winners of this polling and accompany the short explanations of the physical experiments with computer animations.

A massive asteroid may slam into Mars at the end of January of 2008. The size of the asteroid can be compared to that of the notorious Tunguska meteorite, U.S. scientists say.

Every year American scientific journal Popular Science publishes ratings of the most popular and unpopular jobs. Today it presents the list of The Worst Jobs in Science

The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion project to build the world's largest computer database of biometrics to give the government more ways to identify people at home and abroad, the Washington Post reported on Friday...

In a laboratory in Switzerland, a group of neuroscientists is developing a mammalian brain - in silicon. The researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in collaboration with IBM, have just completed the first phase of an ambitious project to reproduce a fully functioning brain on a supercomputer. By strange coincidence, their lab happens to lie on the same shores of Lake Geneva where Mary Shelley dreamt up her creation, Dr Frankenstein...

Featured in this week’s New Scientist magazine, the newly-published book Elephants On Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments includes other nightmarish tales of two-headed dogs, vomit-drinking doctors and dismembered turkeys.

Moon bases are prospective projects to study and develop the Moon and to create the technical, scientific and social infrastructure on Earth’s natural satellite. There are several reasons for the Moon-reclamation. The absence of atmosphere, little gravity, direct cosmic impact and a possibility to get a wide temperature range without great energy costs are among them. The Moon is a unique natural laboratory facility. The absence of atmosphere would make it possible ...

The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is cosmic in scope: A black hole in a "death star galaxy" blasting a neighboring galaxy with a deadly jet of radiation and energy.