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The car industry is tough. If you want to develop a name, you have to be the best in something. The car battles take place in motor-racing. Be it Formula1, World Rally Championship, Touring Cars, FIA GT or even Nascar there is a fight going on between brands. These car battles take place on the circuit, but the fans have a strong word too, carrying these car battles to the auto forums . Here you can see one such car battle. Enjoy

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Although cars are pretty safe nowadays compared to the recent past, you still get freak accidents like this one. Well...he was asking for it!

Only a few days ago we found out that that PC version of the famous Resident Evil 4 would be released on Feb 23, 2007. However, in less than a week and 19 days from the official release date, Resident Evil 4 can already be downloaded over the Internet from various torrent sites. Over 200 downloads in less than 10 hours from that website alone, so this makes us wonder how did this leak happen? And why do this kind of leaks continue to appear ever more frequently? And as usually why isn't anyone doing anything about it?

Soon with this technology, it will be possible to see every detail in a picture. Simply amazing! Respect!

Japan launched a satellite to circle the Moon. It did what it was supposed to do, and brought home incredible images. Now, it was time for it to go to sleep. It's too bad that it lands on the dark side of the moon, but the footage near the end must have been just feet above the surface. Very cool! Enjoy!

The images are taken in Russia in front of a fast food place. Two giant rats seem to guard the food against thieves My hunger suddenly passed.

A storm on the rocks of Bretagne. Some incredibly beautiful images signerd by Jean René Keruzoé. Wow. Amazing!

A pretty spectacular video in ultraviolet capturing the transit of the Moon in front of the Sun. Here are some more details from the authors: "A million miles from planet Earth, last weekend the STEREO B spacecraft found itself in the shadow of the Moon. So, looking toward the Sun, extreme ultraviolet cameras onboard STEREO B were able to record a stunning movie of a lunar transit (aka solar eclipse), as the Moon tracked across the solar disk."

Driving in summer can sometimes be ruined by those pesky bugs that hit the car's windshield. But did we ever stop to think that maybe we're the one's ruining their flight? The german newspaper "Der Spiegel" recently published some stunning photos taken under a microscope, which show in detail what happens when a bug hits the car's windshield.

The latest technology for the blind is tongue vision. It allows images to be displayed from a video camera sensor as electrical impulses to the tongue. It seems that the brain can adapt, and with time it can be used naturally. The only drawback is for the moment it's low resolution. Hope they fix it! Enjoy!

A new instrument to simultaneously measure the magnetic field and the atomic structure of matter at the nanoscale has been developed. The applications of this are future generations of high-density memories Snapshots of the weakest and microscopic magnetic fields generated by just a few molecules of a nanometer (billionth of a meter). The researchers have obtained the S3 Center of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM-CNR) of Modena and the University of Modena . This is a scanning microscope combined with a new highly sensitive magnetic sensor. The microscope scans close with his point - made up of a few atoms - the area of the test and how it relates to the roughness with a resolution of several nanometers. Beside the point, the sensor records the magnetic field intensity, but with high detail ( millionth of a meter). In this way the researchers were able to get together for the first time, images of atomic structure and magnetic properties of a thin layer of nano-magnet on a support of silicon. "The microscope allows us to measure directly the properties of nano-molecular magnets on the surface, even at temperatures close to absolute zero, to minus 270 degrees," says Marco. "Above all," says the researcher, "it helps us to understand the magnetism on the molecular scale."

The ventral striatum, a part of the brain already known to be associated with rewards and unexpected stimuli, is the center of our desire for adventure. The research in Neuron. A group of researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at the University College of London has identified the area of the brain directly linked to our desire for adventure. Or, more precisely, our propensity to live new experiences and to experience what we do not know. For the study, published in Neuron, researchers have developed a test: the participants were presented a series of images associated with different sums of money put into a premium, and were asked to guess which of the sums was higher. Although the volunteers easily could identify the image associated with richer rewards, when it was introduced a new figure, all of them tended to choose the latter rather than those already known with secure profits. Through magnetic resonance imaging, neuroscientists have noticed that the area of the ventral Striatum (an area of the brain already known to be associated to receive a reward and unexpected stimuli) was particularly active when participants opted for the novelty.

The transfer of data will be hundred of times faster than that by radio waves. The promise is made by the first tests conducted by a German institute. Receiving images in Google Earth or photos of the Hubble telescope in real time may soon be reality. A German institute has experienced a communication system based on lasers which will transfer data at a rate one hundred times higher than that possible with radio waves. The technology was developed by researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Aachen on the company's Tesat GmbH & Co. under a project funded by the German Aerospace Center (Dlr).

In these monkeys 80 per cent of the neuron cell cortex is multisensory phonetic and also responds to visual stimuli. Thus, all the information is integrated It is known for some time that monkeys are able to integrate information in various ways to recognize monkeys in the group and their intentions, just like us and like many other other animals. What we did not know until today was how our "cousins" could associate verses and faces, optimising thus the process of individual recognition. The experiment helps to clarify that which was published in Journal of Neuroscience and was conducted by Aif Ghazanfar and collaborators at Princeton (USA) on a kind of macaco. The researchers found that, in these monkeys, many neurons are in fact multi-sensorial and respond differently depending on whether the hearing and visual stimuli are at the same time or not. For monkeys, which live in social groups and must manage complex relationships - conflicting and friendly - it is crucial to combine auditory stimuli (leading information-type sound, as a sound threat) and images (which provide summary information, such as the color of skin or facial features). The group Ghazanfar could shed light on the mechanism of integration of different stimuli by measuring the activity of visual and auditory cortex areas of the brain, respectively, for image and sound. Measurements were made under different conditions: in one case the animals could both see fellow companions in the group, listen to their sounds, while in other cases the animals could alternatively listen to the auditory component only or see the companions (only visual component).

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers have been able to associate a brain activation pattern to the memory of an image. According to a study in Nature. Reading the thoughts of other people is not yet possible, but scientists are working on it. One tool developed by Jack L. Gallant and collaborators at the University of Berkeley (California) is able to recognize an image that a person has just seen through his brain activity. Two of the authors of the study published in Nature - Kendrick Kay and Thomas Naselaris - were submitted in person by observing the experiment at random photographs from a group of 120 during brain scans using functional magnetic resonance (fMri). The results of fMri, combined with a mathematical model, have served to associate the images neuronal activity that a person has just had before our eyes.

No more black and white images: a new electronic tool will observe the chemical species to the wavelengths of visible The color images provided by an ordinary microscope can not make a resolution at the level of individual atoms, while the electronic microscopes, capable of atomic resolution, providing black and white images. In these images different atoms appear as different shades of grey. Now, an electron microscope of a new generation, recently designed and installed at Cornell University and the subject of a study published in Science, will obtain color images at atomic resolution.