ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2008) — Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have demonstrated that liquids embedded with nanoparticles show enhanced performance and stability when exposed to electric fields. The finding could lead to new types of miniature camera lenses, cell phone displays, and other microscale fluidic devices.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Is Kanye Rocking The Grammys? Crazy Vids! Hot Models!

WHOA! Let me tell you something. I am going to be the one throwing some tantrums if you don't get it together Grammy people! I heard that Kanye West isn't going to be rocking the Grammy awards this weekend! Now, I don't know how true that is, but they better make that announcement soon! Rumor says that Michael Jackson might be a surprise performer at the awards show with somebody like Justin Timberlake. If Mike does that, I will lose all respect for him! After what he did to Janet!? They needed to get Usher so Ursh can get his stuff together.

They won't let Amy Winehouse in the States, because they think she is going to do a lil' crack or something? That's foul! Well, they gave Amy a last minute visa to the U.S.

Secrets behind your favorite toys

His other inventions included model trains, glass blowing kits (think about the liability today!), chemistry sets (one chemistry set was even designed specifically for girls) and in 1951 (during the cold war) he even introduced a miniature Atomic Energy Lab with three very low-level radioactive sources and a real working Geiger counter. Now there's a toy even a real patriot could love.

Finally, we all agree: devolution is a process, not an event

FOR ONCE the hype was justified. "The most important debate the Scottish parliament has ever engaged in," said the Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie during last week's debate on setting up a Constitutional Commission to extend home rule. She could be right. All the major forces in Scottish politics are now united as never before on the need to give Holyrood more oomph. Even the SNP is part of the consensus, though Labour is trying to lock them out.

For hacks like me who have watched the battle for Scotland for more than 20 years, this is hard to believe. Ultra-unionists like the Scottish Tories joining forces on the constitution with the ultra-devolutionist Liberal Democrats? Surely not. Michael Forsyth would turn in his grave, were he dead. Annabel Goldie as a tartan revolutionary? Well, she delivered a powerful speech in last week's debate, admitting past mistakes and conceding that home rule is a process that "dwarfs party politics".

The unkindest bites are the human ones

It is estimated that there are between 3-6 million animal bites per year in the U.S, that 80-90 percent are dog bites, and 5-15 percent come from cats. About 1 million people each year seek care in the emergency room for dog or cat bites.

Dogs have strong jaws and relatively dull teeth. Wounds caused by dog bites tend to involve more crushing, tearing and lacerations rather than puncture wounds. Crushed tissues are particularly susceptible to infection. Dog bites occur most frequently on the extremities (upper slightly more often than lower), followed by the head and neck.

Small children receive more bites to the face, neck or head because they're near a dog's mouth. There are about 15-20 fatalities a year as a result of dog bites; most involve infants and young children.