This summer, the arctic pole had it's worst ice loss in recorded history. The arctic ice has has shrunk to a million square miles, compared to the previous record of summer 2005 with 1,5 millions. Earlier reports this year predicted a ice free passage in summer for 2040 but it happened much sooner than predicted as satellites pictures taken this summer showed this ice free passage.

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Reuters Labs has just released a new search engine that uses facial recognition technology to find video clips. This new technology permits you to enter terms of search and the engine will use an image of that term in it's database to scan through videos and locate the clips you are looking for. For example, if you type in "Angelina Jolie", the engine will use pictures of her to find video...

There is a $30 Million prize to be won by anyone who lands a privately funded rover on the moon by December 31, 2012. A major part of the challenge is that the successful rover is to beam back about 1GB of data. Google will also reserve a space to store photos and personal messages.
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Nasa has developed a new way to fight hurricanes, long range lightning sensors are used to identify the strength of lightning inside a hurricane, giving insight about the intensity of the hurricane, knowing the intensity changes in lightning can help to forecast the future strength of the hurricane.

How will this change our world? Although we cannot prevent a hurricane from happening, new techniques and technologies can help us know better where,...

Global warming is also having an adverse effect on wheat crops all around the globe. The warming trend is causing more extreme weather, droughts and flooding, and the harvests this year were way down from previous years. Canada had the smallest harvest in 5 years this year because of unusually dry weather, while in Europe the harvest was down by 40% because of flooding. The prices of wheat products...