Researchers build efficient lasers just 100 billionths of a metre across that may be used to make faster computer chips in the future.

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Threshold broken for tiny lasers

Researchers say most of the world’s continents will merge somewhere over the Pacific “ring of fire” in 50-200 million years.

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America and Asia ‘will join up’

Search and rescue efforts are continuing for survivors of a 6.7 magnitude quake that shook the central Philippines on Monday, leaving dozens dead or missing.

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Search on for Philippine missing

Babies weaned on pureed food tend to end up fatter than infants whose first tastes are finger food, researchers believe.

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Spoon-fed babies ‘end up fatter’

There’s paranormal, and then there’s para- puhleeez . The line between those two can be quite fine, especially when results vary from viewer to viewer. “The River,” which premieres on ABC on Tuesday night, leaps back and forth from frightening to ridiculous so often that it might as well be performing double-Dutch jump rope. It’s a drama about a film crew that goes in search of missing nature/adventure TV show host Dr. Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood), who was last seen shooting episodes of his docu-series, “The Undiscovered Country,” in remote tributaries of the Amazon River. He was presumed dead — until his GPS locator started beeping out a distress signal. Read full article > >

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ABC’s ‘The River’: Creepshow catches a bad case of jungle rot

The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.

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Cancer Center, in Lawsuit, Says a Doctor Appropriated a Discovery

The more young people come into contact with employers the less likely they are to drop out of school and become unemployed, research suggests.

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Work contacts ‘cut dropout rate’

Prince William starts work as an RAF search and rescue pilot in the Falkland Islands, having arrived in the territory on a six-week routine deployment.

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William starts Falklands duties

Last week, Google tracked the Web sites I visited and, like most technology companies, tried to guess who I was based on the places I visited. Its goal: to target advertising to me. The result? The search engine thought I was a 70-year-old man based in Atlanta. Read full article > >

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Beware of privacy policies: Time to clean up your digital footprint

Rabbi Menachem Youlus, who told stories of traveling to Europe and beyond to search for Torahs that were lost during the Holocaust, said in Federal Court that he had made up those tales.

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Rabbi Menachem Youlus Says He Lied About Saving Torahs

A record company has begun a worldwide search for the singer who can sing a note so low that it is thought never to have been sung before.

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Hunt for lowest ever bass singer

A record company has begun a worldwide search for the singer who can sing a note so low that it is thought never to have been sung before.

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Hunt for lowest ever bass singer

The Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development serves over 5,000 needy New Yorkers a month – and just got a new lease on life. The organization has two locations: in Highbridge and Parkchester, Bronx, providing hunger, health and immigration services. It was in danger of closing its doors on December 31, due to lack of funding, but got a donation just in the nick of time from the Collegiate Church . “It felt really good,” said Nurah Ama’tullah, executive director of the Institute. “It is truly like a blessing.” Ama’tullah said the payroll was disrupted around Labor Day and the Institute’s future was in limbo until the donation came in on December 19. “It was a time of prayer and reflection as to how we would continue,” she recalled. “For someone like myself, it’s always a question as to ‘Is this what Allah wants me to do?’” The $100,000 grant was able to pay off the $50,000 in existing debt and will be used to cover operational expenses through the end of March. But since the middle of December, an additional $49,000 was raised from various sources, so now costs are covered through the end of May. “We are working to raise additional funds,” Ama’tullah said.

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Bronx Interfaith Nonprofit Saved

A couple of Fridays ago, while making the dreaded trek down I-95 after work (for readers who don’t happen to live on the East Coast, this is pretty much what rush hour on the Beltway is like), NPR’s Science Friday came on the radio, kicking off with a segment on Martian meteorites. So what does that have to do with the Middle East? Well, the Martian meteorites being discussed on the show were those that fell in Morocco last July –a once-every-fifty-years event; and upon doing a little research, it turns out that meteorites of all origins –not just Martian– are not uncommon finds throughout the Sahara Desert in North Africa, though they’re rare enough to fetch a pretty penny. In fact, there’s a veritable black market for the sale of meteorites, much to scientists’ chagrin. According to a piece by The New York Times last year, this black market has seen an explosion in size “mainly because of a rush of new meteorites arriving from North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.” Why these areas? As the BBC explains , Meteorites land anywhere on earth and often end up in the oceans. On land, they are most likely to be found near the Equator because it has the largest surface area, and particularly in the Sahara, as the dry climate helps to preserve them. Providing they land on the flat hard pad rather than the soft sand dunes, meteorites are easy to spot in the desert and people will sometimes go in search of them if they see a meteor shower at night.

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Martian Meteors in Morocco: Hitting the Jackpot in North Africa

Italian divers abandon their search for bodies inside the wrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia after conditions underwater deteriorate.

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Search of cruise ship abandoned