Wired: Top Stories (6 unread)
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Regulatory Deadline Looms over DNA Testers
Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 11:00pm EDT by Wired Science
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Genetics testing companies face off against California's health department requirement that they submit plans for coming into compliance with the biological materials testing laws or face civil and criminal sanctions.
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Console Makers Open Doors to Indie Game Designers
Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 5:25pm EDT by Associated Press
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The game industry has been a tough sell for indie game makers. However, now players like Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are opening up digital distribution channels and reaching out to the independents.
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Brain Drainer Puts Audience to Sleep With Music
Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 4:51pm EDT by Listening Post
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Famed Japanese "sleep doctor" Takuro Endo attempts to lull an audience of 1,500 to sleep with a playlist that includes Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Japanese tenor Masafumi Akikawa. The result? A partial snooze.
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NASA Hopes for Microbe-Friendly Mars
Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 1:25pm EDT by Associated Press
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Bizarre microbes, like those that survive in punishing environments on Earth, might also thrive on Mars, some researchers speculate.
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Harvard Docs Uncover New Clue in Alzheimer's Battle
Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 1:08pm EDT by Associated Press
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Researchers discover that a particular form of beta-amyloid, a sticky protein found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, causes dementia in rats where other forms of the same protein don't. The findings help explain why not all patients with the protein develop the disease.
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'Cinematic Titanic' Makes Hot Hollywood Debut
Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 5:00am EDT by Underwire
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While hosting an impressive collection of fresh studio features, award-winning documentaries and competitive short films, the Los Angeles Film Festival turned the spotlight toward celluloid's ugly side with a painfully funny live screening of The Doomsday Machine with the cast of Cinematic Titanic.