Atomic clock technology has been made so small it may soon be possible to incorporate super-accurate timekeeping into mobile devices such as cellphones. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3656278.stm Computer chip fabrication techniques were used to make a clock mechanism that will neither lose nor gain a second in 300 years. Researchers believe final development should see a battery-operated system that is about the size of a suga

A team of astronomers have found a colossal black hole so ancient, they're not sure how it had enough time to grow to its current size, about 10 billion times the mass of the Sun. Sitting at the heart of a distant galaxy, the black hole appears to be about 12.7 billion years old, which means it formed just one billion years after the universe began and is one of the oldest supermassive black holes ever known. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/heavy_blazar_040628.html

Wired Magazine is carrying this story about contest to outwit google's crawlers. http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63755,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4