ABCNEWS.com : Scientists Reconstruct Feast of King Midas

By analyzing residues in the cauldrons, bowls and urns found inside what is believed to be King Midas’ tomb, scientists have figured out what mourners ate and drank at the funeral feast.

Birds may be singing in their sleep, ENN Daily News -- 12/21/98The article may be over a year old, but it's too cool not to post. Birds dream about singing while they are asleep, say researchers from the University of Chicago. In fact, dreaming helps the birds "rehearse" what they learned during the day, the scientists say.

Millennium Bug Found By Australian Entomologists

It's the moment the world has been waiting for. Taxonomists at CSIRO Entomology have announced the discovery of the "real" Millennium Bug. Head of the Australian National Insect Collection, Dr Ebbe Nielsen, reports that the bug, a small water strider, is harmless to computers. "It feeds on flies and other small insects, not files," he says. The bug's actual scientific name cannot be made public until international procedures for scientific naming are complete, but both its scientific and common names will be the "Millennium Bug".

Hubble Heritage Project: Galaxy NGC 4214

Newly released images obtained with NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope in July 1997 reveal episodes of star formation that are occurring across the face of the nearby galaxy NGC 4214. Located some 13 million light-years from Earth, NGC 4214 is currently forming clusters of new stars from its interstellar gas and dust. In the Hubble image, we can see a sequence of steps in the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters. The picture was created from exposures taken in several color filters with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. NGC 4214 contains a multitude of faint stars covering most of the frame, but the picture is dominated by filigreed clouds of glowing gas surrounding bright stellar clusters.

Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ

This site features Samuel M. Goldwasser's latest and greatest "Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of..." series of comprehensive repair guides for consumer electronics equipment and other household devices. There is also a great deal of other information of interest to the electronics hobbyist, experimenter, technician, engineer, and possibly even the dentist and poet. Included are the now quite comprehensive and massive "Sam's Laser FAQ", many new schematics, and links to over 1,000 technology related sites. In addition, there are a variety of documents from other sources on electronics troubleshooting, repair, and other related topics.