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1. Lee Harvey Oswald photo wasn't faked

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... as Oswald claimed, a fake. Dartmouth computer scientist Hany Farid has analyzed the photo with modern-day forensic tools, and says it is almost certainly genuine. "If we had found evidence of photo tampering, ...

2. Adult Friend Finder: paedophiles are just one click away

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Single Parent Gossip author and child safety expert Pat McKenna has discovered disturbing information that provides evidence that the dangers of child porn and paedophiles may be much closer than you ...

3. Internet users do have friends

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... "However, we find some evidence that use of social networking services - for example, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn - substitutes for some level of neighborhood involvement." Read the full report here. ...

4. Distant galaxy cluster sheds light on 'cosmic skeleton'

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... Scientists don't fully understand how they are created, and this is the first solid evidence of their existence at great distances. The team led by Tanaka discovered a large structure around a distant ...

5. Global warming scepticism rising faster than temperatures

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... of the US public by the Pew Research Center reports that only 57 percent - down from 77 percent three years ago - believe there is strong scientific evidence that the Earth has become warmer over recent ...

6. NASA finds most distant galaxy cluster yet

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... were the final - but crucial - piece of evidence as they showed that JKCS041 was, indeed, a genuine galaxy cluster. It isn't yet possible, with the detection of just one extremely distant galaxy cluster, ...

7. 'World's biggest crater' discovered

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... of western India.The team even suggests that the impact broke the Seychelles islands off of the Indian tectonic plate, and sent them drifting toward Africa. There is strong evidence to back up the idea. ...

8. NASA finds 'space ribbon' at solar system's edge

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... tie-dye and instead found noodle soup." What the mission has not found is what it was expecting - evidence of large-scale dynamic processes like the storms and tornados that result from the collision ...

9. Microsoft recovers Danger data

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... time and that the data was put at risk not by hardware failure, but by good old-fashioned human error. Industry watchers should look for evidence of this having happened coming in the form of a press ...

10. Pterosaur discovery points to modular evolution

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    A new type of flying reptile that's been discovered provides the first clear evidence of a controversial type of evolution. A new type of flying reptile that's been discovered provides the first clear ...

11. Adobe sneaks out mega security patch

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... while it is seen as jolly good fun to use the number of patches issued for Microsoft products as evidence of poor design and a lax attitude to security, where are the brickbats for Adobe for releasing ...

12. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... downgrades to Windows XP, which most companies thought of as a superior operating system. If Windows 7 does not catch on with Big Business, some believe Microsoft will be toast. There's some evidence ...

13. Poke lands Facebook user in court

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... from telephoning, contacting "or otherwise communicating with" her distraught victim. Local police obtained screen grabs of the other woman's Facebook page as evidence, according to local paper The Tennessean, ...

14. Uniloc prepares to fight for its $388 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... We believe that the jury's verdict in April was thoughtful, well reasoned and supported by the evidence presented," said Uniloc CEO Brad Davis in a statement. "Since the patent status remains unchanged, ...

15. Tyrannosaurs 'killed by throat infection'

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... by trichomonosis tend to be neat and have relatively smooth edges. Transmission of the parasite may have been through salivary contact or cannibalism, says Wolff, noting that there is no known evidence ...

16. EU criticizes "damagingly loud" MP3 players

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... users frequently raised the volume of their MP3 players to "damagingly loud" levels. "And the evidence is that particularly young people - who are listening to music at high volumes sometimes for hours ...

17. Digital ants seek out security threats

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... National Laboratory (PNNL), came up with the idea of copying ant behavior, using a network of 64 computers. “Our idea is to deploy 3,000 different types of digital ants, each looking for evidence of ...

18. Apple plus graphics gurus = semiconductor mystery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... foundries. Compelling evidence emerged at this week's Intel Developer Forum that there's certainly no smoke without fire. Because Apple has recruited not just one chief technology officer formerly with ...

19. Indian probe finds water on the moon

    (Space/Space Features)

    Just a week after NASA reported evidence that there was probably water on the moon, India's Chandrayaan-1 moon mission has actually found some. Just a week after NASA reported evidence that there was ...

20. Wireless providers wary about net neutrality rules

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... evidence of problems or abuse that would warrant government intervention," said the company's senior vice president of external and legislative affairs, Jim Cicconi, in a statement. “To paraphrase a ...

21. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... executive] and [Intel senior executive] in meetings with HP during the negotiations; The written agreement with MSH contained a provision that the deal was non-exclusive. However, the evidence demonstrates ...

22. NZ woman sacked in CAPS LOCK row

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... email produced in evidence contained bold red text and a sentence written in capitals and highlighted in bold blue. It reads: "To ensure your staff claim is processed and paid, please do follow the below ...

23. Oracle discloses Sun plans

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... spin it off.  This flies in the face of what many analysts think will actually happen.  There is some evidence that talks have been going on with HP to buy the business from Oracle the moment ...

24. TSMC flagged in August

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... evidence suggests that TSMC, a "pure play foundry" has been reacting to  a market that isn't necessarily recovering but needs to top up inventories. On the bright side, IT companies are launching ...

25. Hacked flight sim firm fingers suspect

    (Security/Security Features)

      The US publisher of a flight simulator site which was hacked in May says it has tracked down the perpetrator and provided evidence to the British police. The US publisher of a flight simulator ...

26. Microsoft cleared in Russian antitrust case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Reuters the company had supplied evidence to FAS that XP was in fact still available and that the company had sold over a million Russian language copies of the venerable OS in 2008. "Microsoft is ...

27. Psystar clones Apple's Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... over Apple tax Humbled Psystar hopes to 'coexist' with Apple      Apple slams Psystar for destroying crucial evidence Apple's Schiller agrees to Psystar deposition      Psystar ...

28. Twitter makes you dumb, says psychologist

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... not engaging your brain and improving nerve connections.'' War games make people use their working memory and keep track of past actions and plan future moves, she claimed, adding that there was evidence ...

29. Intel boss confident of market upturn

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the decision out of Brussels, I'm comfortable we'll win. The process was one that did not look at all the evidence and didn't balance all the facts." The BBC interview was also notable for the ...

30. Geronimo! Hackers attack Apache website

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... "While we have no evidence that downloads were affected, users are always advised to check digital signatures where provided."  ...

31. Humbled Psystar hopes to 'coexist' with Apple

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... a 3.0 GHz Intel Quad Core processor, 4 GB DDR2, 1000 GB HD and an NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT. See also Apple slams Psystar for destroying crucial evidence Apple's Schiller agrees ...

32. Antitrust cops probe Google Italy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Google Italy's offices yesterday looking for evidence of anti-trust behavior. The raid happened after the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers complained that Google is allegedly "hindering publishers ...

33. AMD eroded Nvidia's graphic board share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... were hard hit by the "shock and awe" factor, said the report. Inventories couldn't get very much lower. That meant that AIB sales had to track consumption. And there's evidence people are beginning to ...

34. UK police admit CCTV cameras are useless

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... tank the Adam Smith Institute, told the Telegraph: "It is obvious that the boom in CCTV cameras is not making us the slightest bit safer. There is no evidence that it saves us from gun or knife crime, ...

35. Apple slams Psystar for destroying crucial evidence

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Apple has accused Psystar of violating a court order by destroying crucial evidence related to the alleged modifcation of OS X. According to Club Cupertino, the clone manufacturer allegedly erased infringing ...

36. Top secret US spyplane blamed for spate of UFO sightings

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... in 1993. At the time, the MoD's UFO desk wrote to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff to ask whether Aurora had been doing test flights as there was 'evidence of an unidentified craft evading UK defences'. ...

37. i4i 'not interested' in bringing Microsoft to its knees

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... "We believe the evidence clearly demonstrated that we do not infringe and that the i4i patent is invalid. We will appeal the verdict."  ...

38. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    While there is some evidence that things are better in the semiconductor market last quarter than they were before, it’s unlikely that things will really take off until this time next year.While there ...

39. Facebook jealously rears its ugly head

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... expanding phenomenon that is changing the nature of social relationships. Anecdotal evidence, including information described in the popular media, suggests that Facebook may be responsible for creating ...

40. Scientology founder exposed as fake

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... To defend itself, the government started gathering evidence that Hubbard was a fake. In a signed statement amongst the documents, one of Hubbard's collaborators wrote: “The position is L Ron Hubbard ...

41. Methane results mean life on Mars unlikely

    (Space/Space Features)

    The presence of methane on Mars - once hailed as a possible sign of life - in fact provides evidence that life may be unsustainable on the planet, according to University of Paris researchers. Paris, ...

42. Porn pervasive in workplace

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... sites. Porn appears on law enforcement agencies and government agency computers and has often been used as evidence when employees file sexual harassment or hostile work environment cases, she said.  ...

43. Americans turn to alternative medicine

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... the importance of conducting rigorous research and providing evidence-based information on CAM so that healthcare providers and the public can make well-informed decisions."  ...

44. Life may have developed in cometary oceans

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... Comets in recent times could also liquefy just below their surfaces as they approach the inner solar system in their orbits. Evidence of recent melting has been discovered in recent pictures of comet Tempel ...

45. Half million credit card details stolen from Network Solutions

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... servers to servers outside the company. The code was deleted. Police were told and customers are being notified. At this point, the company has no evidence that the data has been used, but Network Solutions ...

46. Saturn moon may have liquid water

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... salts in E-ring particles and the gas velocities in the plumes, provide compelling evidence that a liquid water reservoir exists - or recently existed - in the interior."  ...

47. EU to probe Google

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of Google's book search service. The US is already reviewing evidence on whether Google is hampering competition by acquiring the copyright on millions of digital works. Now the European Union is to ...

48. Lost moon landing tapes dusted off and restored

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... deal more detail. The team stresses that nothing has been added to the images, and it's simply that they've been sharpened up. But no doubt, the conspiracy theorists will have fun finding even more evidence ...

49. America loves science (well, some of it)

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Opinion)

    ... sceptical, it's crazy to fly in the face of the evidence. All over the world, people manage to believe in a God who used evolution as part of his plan. If the world's leading scientific nation is already ...

50. US hit by massive DoS attack

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... is currently no evidence as to who was behind the attack, which involved a botnet estimated at some 50,000 computers. "It certainly seems to be a well-organized attack," said one. "There are a lot of ...