Researchers have developed a game that is controlled by eye movements, which could allow people with severe physical disabilities for the first time to play games.

Ian Beer and his team at Imperial College London, working in the laboratory of Aldo Faisal, have adapted an open source game called “Pong” in which a player moves a bat to hit a ball that bounces across the screen. The adjustment allows the player to swing the bat using his eyes.

To play, the user uses special goggles containing an infrared light and a webcam that records the movement of an eye. The webcam connects to a laptop computer where a program synchronizes the user’s eye movements with the game. (more…)

A group of scientists, including Nobel Prize winner, suggested that the Earth has entered a new geological era: the Anthropocene Era. And these experts also believe that at the dawn of this new era may be occurring, the sixth major extinction in the Earth history.

Geologists Zalasiewicz Jan and Mark Williams of the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, Will Steffen, director of the Climate Change Institute, Australian National University, and Paul Crutzen, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Mainz, Germany, Nobel Prize winner, give their evidence for these conclusions on global climate change. (more…)

In which it constitutes a great scientific advance, one has been able to increase of the spectacular form the volume of genetic information on complex human diseases and its possible treatments available for the investigators of the medical field.

The international team of scientists has made this important work, led by researchers at CCIA Pediatric Oncology Institute in Australia, the University of New South Wales in Australia, and Pennsylvania State University in the U.S., sequenced the genomes of various South African indigenous and, among other findings, has discovered that they are among those with higher genetic diversity in the world. (more…)

A team led by scientists at Princeton University has tested the theory of general relativity by Albert Einstein to see if it meets a cosmic scale. And after two years of astronomical data analysis, scientists have ruled that Einstein’s theory, which describes the interaction between gravity, space and time, operating at great distances as it does in local regions of space.

The analysis of these scientists on more than 70,000 galaxies shows that the universe, at least up to 3500 million light-years from Earth, follow the rules established by Einstein in his famous theory. (more…)

The decade 2000-2009 was the warmest since modern measurements began, and 2009 achieved a draw as the second warmest year in this disturbing list, as shown by a new analysis of global surface temperatures. Re-analysis, conducted annually by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), also shows that for the Southern Hemisphere in 2009 was the warmest year in recorded history.

2008 was the coldest year of the decade, due to the strong cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean, but in 2009 global temperatures returned to near record numbers. Temperatures last year were only surpassed by 2005 the warmest year of the international meteorological record, and matched to those of other years 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007 in the second on the list.

Over the past three decades, temperature records show an upward trend of about 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade, according to the study of GISS. The largest increases in the decade 2000-2009 were observed in the Arctic and parts of Antarctica. (more…)

The energy released by an earthquake in Chile amounts to 20,000 million tons of TNT (which is 1 333 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb). With this power, the quake has caused more than 700 fatalities, has had another effect. Its strength has been enough to shift slightly (about 8 cm.) Axis of the Earth and, therefore, shorten the length of days. According to the data used by NASA since last February 27 on hard earth 1.26 millionths of a second less than before.

Shortening that will be added to that already took place in 2004, following the Sumatra earthquake (a magnitude of 9.1). Since that terrible event, the length of the days had been shortened by 6.8 millionths of a second. (more…)

The new e-reader DR-900 that Asus focuses most of its interface in a 9-inch touch screen with resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels and has only a minimal amount of buttons on either side. The e-reader Asus DR-900 can also be used as more than one reader e-books, as it is a device that connects to the Internet to obtain news and to support non-traditional applications. (more…)

NVIDIA has just confirmed the details of its next generation platform Ion, eventually known as Ion 2. Unlike the original platform Ion, Ion 2 is a dedicated graphics core, not a complete chipset technology based on GeForce motherboard G 210M. Ion 2 provides much faster than the original platform without sacrificing too much battery life. In DirectX 9 level graphics (OpenGL 2), Ion 2 is about 50 percent faster than the original Ion and up to 15 times faster than Intel, DirectX 10 (OpenGL 3) doubles the performance of its predecessor. (more…)