Joshua's Beaker Runneth Over
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By PATTERSON, Colin  JOSHUA BAKER grudgingly admits he is "apparently" good at science.   Last year, the then 17-year-old year 13 student at Newlands College was awarded outstanding scholarships in NCEA chemistry, statistics and calculus and a scholarship in physics.
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WASHINGTON -- Claudia Mitchell's thought-controlled artificial hand did what natural fingers are prone to do: It lost its grip, letting a bottle of water tumble to the ground.
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Fluery still roots for JBoss...Edward Tufte mostly likes iPhone interface...mysteries of Linux's /proc files...multicore compression...Actually *using* mammoth telephotos
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Tycho:  Here is the final sequence of Armadeaddon, which you may think of as a kind of bonus stage.  The next time poor diet or exhaustion leaves us without rejoinder to infernal continuity, panel two should provide more than enough raw material.
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Some months ago I started collecting the pieces I needed to build my own 64-bit computer. I'm not a complete stranger to building machines, I've put together a dozen or so during the past twenty years, but it's been quite a while since I started one from scratch, and my experience with this machine was more instructive than it was meant to be. Nevertheless, at long last Studio Dave has gone 64-bit crazy. Well, not really crazy, but certainly more than mildly enthusiastic.
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By Edited by Katie Stirling  THANKS to Claire Collins, of Ayr, who wins my weekly tenner with this daft picture.  If you have a funny internet image, why not share it with us? Please include your full postal address.  (c) 2006 Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK).
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By Anonymous  ANCIENT TEMPERATURE DROP M
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David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn's largest moon.
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Watered-down whiskey doesn't go down smoothly.
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Someone seems pretty desperate to reinflate this hissing balloon.
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JERUSALEM: A forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artefacts was cracked yesterday. Police said the ring forged what were presented as perhaps the
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HOBART, Ind. - Jeffrey Crane got something unexpected when he stopped to gas up his pickup truck - a tank full of water. Crane, who filled up at a Marathon Station in Hobart on Saturday, had his pickup towed to a repair shop when it failed to start Monday.
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The camera on the Hubble space telescope responsible for taking clear pictures of the early Universe breaks down.
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Drinking water supplies in parts of Gloucestershire could run dry by Sunday evening as a water treatment plant is "overwhelmed".
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We've nearly used 1.5 trillion gallons. After that, there are only 1.5 trillion left.
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The Genesis desert crash has left scientists wondering about the delicate condition of its solar wind collection. The first release of samples to the community has begun, while new tests for oxygen-isotopes may help uncover which particles might have lunar, solar or terrestrial origins.
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A telescope arms race is taking shape around the world. Astronomers are drawing up plans for the biggest, most powerful instruments ever constructed, capable of peering far deeper into the universe Â and further back in time Â than ever before.