Honey bees’ success down to ‘heaters’ who warm the hive »

Scientist have long attributed the success of the honey bee to the division of labour within the hive. Each one, they say, has a specific role to play which benefits the colony as a whole.

Replica of big skull from 28,000 years ago suggests human brains have started to shrink »

Scientists, who claim to have produced one of the best replicas yet of an early modern human’s skull, say it is up to 20 per cent bigger than ours.

Now Twitter astronaut posts stunning space videos on YouTube »

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi has already made his name as a prolific Twitterer, who delights his 125,000 followers with live pictures from the International Space Station.

Yakuza 3 Impressions | GoozerNation (Yakuza 3) »

Yakuza 3 has hit the Western shores after about a year of its market reign in Japan. Those familiar with the Yakuza series, or simply familiar with its formula, will find that this sandbox technique doesn’t change direction and mimicks what made the first chapters glow. Read more for the full impressions.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Server Maintenance, Today And Tomorrow (Battlefield: Bad Company 2) »

Electronic Arts announced the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 servers were going down for maintenance tonight and tomorrow night.

ROBERT WINSTON: the dark side of the inventions that changed the world »

Robert Winston on spears, flame throwers and fax machines (Or why the dark side of our ingenuity shows we’re too clever by half).

ROBERT WINSTON: the dark side of the inventions that changed the world »

Robert Winston on spears, flame throwers and fax machines (Or why the dark side of our ingenuity shows we’re too clever by half).

Skeletons in the closet: The tantalising secrets inside the vaults at the Natural History Museum »

Beyond the public displays lies a five-mile labyrinth of corridors and secret corners where time really has stood still.

Why 3D Dot Game Heroes Isn’t Coming On Xbox 360 (3D Dot Game Heroes) »

Why 3D Dot Game Heroes Isn’t Coming On Xbox 360 (3D Dot Game Heroes) »

R.A. Salvatore wants gamers to die (PC) »

R.A. Salvatore, best-selling author and creator of everyone’s favorite dark elf Drizzt Do’urden, took the stage at GDC today to talk world-building and his experiences helping design the fiction for 38 Studio’s upcoming MMO, Copernicus.  
A veteran of MMOs like Everquest, Saltavore is a firm believer that dying (in video games) makes you a better person.  If you remove [...]