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The North Magnetic Pole could leave Canada by 2004, migrate north of Alaska and eventually wind up in Russia, according to Larry Newitt of the Geological Survey of Canada.

The magnetic pole has drifted for decades, but change has accelerated in recent years. If the pole follows its present course, it will pass north of Alaska and arrive in Siberia in 500 years, but Newitt says his predictions could be wrong. ?Although it has been moving north or northwest for a hundred years, it is not going to continue in that direction forever. Its speed has increased considerably during the past 25 years, and it could just as easily decrease a few years from now,? he says.
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Surgeons have carried out an operation on cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick so that his nervous system can be wired up to a computer. He?s the world?s first cyborg — part human and part machine.

Computer readings can be taken from the implant in his arm of electrical impulses coursing through his nerves. These signals encode movements like wiggling fingers and feelings like shock and pain. He hopes this leads to a medical breakthrough for people paralyzed by spinal cord damage, like actor Christopher Reeve. Warwick also hopes that some day the human brain can be upgraded with implants for extra memory, intelligence or X-ray vision.
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Mike Stepp, webmaster of the CIA?s public website, removed illegal software from it after a private group discovered that the CIA was using internet tracking technology called ?cookies? that is banned for federal use. This is despite the fact that there?s a notice on the CIA website that says, ?The Central Intelligence Agency Web site does NOT use the ?cookies? that some websites use to gather and store information about your visits to their sites.?
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Chewing gum could make us smarter, according to a study carried out in the U.K. by the University of Northumbria and the Cognitive Research Unit in Reading. They found that chewing gum has a positive effect on cognitive tasks such as thinking and memory.

?The results were extremely clear and specifically we found that chewing gum targeted memory,? says Andrew Scholey of the university’s Human Cognitive Neuroscience Unit. ?People recalled more words and performed better in tests on working memory.?
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