Two Sumatran orangutans from Zoo Atlanta are playing video games as researchers plan to study cognitive, memory, reasoning and learning abilities of these intelligent species. Zoo visitors are very curious to see four-year-old Bernas use his lips and feet to play a game on the touch-screen monitor. However, he is not as computer-friendly as his mom Madu who loves to spend time playing computer games.

Scientists removed three peregrine falcon eggs from beneath the Bay Bridge Friday. They were worried that once the eggs hatched, the chicks would fall onto the roadway or into the San Francisco Bay. The eggs were perched about 200 feet above the San Francisco Bay. A digital monitor found that two of the eggs had heartbeats. They will be given to foster falcons until they are ready to be returned to the wild.

Iowa University has installed special software in its laundries that lets students communicate with washers and dryers. The software, called LaundryView is an Internet-based system that sends e-mail alerts to students for the availability and current status of washers and dryers. According to the University officials, the system will help save the time of students who visit laundry to find the washers and dryers already booked. Moreover, it will be an alarm for those who forget to remove their clothes once they have loaded the machines.

The anti-government sit-ins in Beirut by pro-Hezbollah supporters have resulted in a marketing coup for the designer of a new perfume named "Resistance. " Although the perfume is being marketed to protesters - as a way to smell fresh no matter how long they have been camped out without a shower in Lebanon's capital city - it is also selling briskly in Lebanon's stores as well as in other countries. Ali Aaqil Khalil, who invented Resistance perfume, is not a member of Hezbollah and the perfume is neither endorsed or opposed by the militant group.

A group of scientists from Nanning in the southern Chinese province of Guanxi, are claiming they can predict earthquakes just by observing the behavior of snakes. The earthquake bureau in Nannning says they monitor snakes on a snake farm using 24-hour Internet video links. Scientists working for the bureau say the snakes can sense a quake from 75 miles away, up to five days before it occurs.