Technology News for November 9, 2007

Heres how pigeons find their way home
By fitting pigeons with recorders that pick up brain activity during their flights, neuroscientists have confirmed that the birds use features from a landscape to find their way home. ANI

First fossil depicting 290 million years old food chain discovered
Palaeontologists have discovered a unique fossil in Germany that depicts 290 million years old food chain when sharks used to eat amphibians who in turn ate fishes in the great lakes of the Earth. ANI

Comet chaser Rosetta will have close rendezvous with Earth next week
The European Space Agencys comet chaser Rosetta is on its way for a close encounter with the Earth on November 13, second time in two years, that would help the spacecraft gain some amount of energy for its mission. ANI

Mans next planetary foray maybe on the moons of Mars
Scientists have indicated that the next time man sets foot on a planetary body, it would most probably be on Phobos and Deimos, the two moons of Mars. This trip might be possible within the next 10 years. ANI

Nearby galaxies might be the source of cosmic rays
Scientists have traced the rain of high-energy cosmic rays that continually pelt the Earth to the cores of nearby galaxies, which emit prodigious quantities of energy. ANI

New scoring system makes credit card transactions a little more secure
The payment card industry in the US have adopted a new industry standard to make credit card transactions a little more secure for their customers. ANI

Mammals might have originated in India
Many present day plant and animal species might have their origin in India, a new find has suggested. ANI

Women are not biologically built to be chatterboxes
A new study has challenged the existing notion that women are biologically built to be chatterboxes, by finding that gender differences in language use appear and disappear, depending on the interaction context. ANI