Technology Easy animation to get novices jumping for joy DRAWINGS sketched on the screen of a Tablet PC can be animated in seconds thanks to new software. All it takes is the flourish of a stylus. The software, called K-Sketch, allows a relatively unskilled user to sketch out a scene on the PC's screen, select the parts they want to animate, and then simply … 51¶¯Âþ
Space Mission unthinkable: Disbanding NASA LESS than two years after it was announced with great fanfare, President Bush's plan to return people to the moon is in trouble. The signs are everywhere. Take Operation Offset, a proposal devised by a group of Republican legislators to cut government programmes and free up funds to pay for damage done by hurricanes Katrina … Opinion
Life Money and monkey business THE capuchin monkeys working with economist Keith Chen and psychologist Laurie Santos know a good bargain when they see one. They use metal chips as money, buying bits of apple or cucumber from humans, and they seem to know what they're doing. When the researchers make apple cheaper than cucumber – offering more food for … Features
Round-up Down on the farm... A major new research campus is set to bring hundreds of new jobs to the south bank of the Potomac river. One of the region's largest life-sciences research donors, the non-profit foundation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is building a 700-acre life sciences campus dubbed Janelia Farm. Officials decided to keep the … Careers
Feedback Confusing Karen FOLLOWING the disaster of hurricane Katrina, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued guidelines for "keeping food safe during an emergency". The bulk of the advice focuses on how to keep one's freezer cold during power outages, and it includes tips such as: "Fifty pounds of dry ice should hold an 18-cubic-foot full … Regulars