posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 34 minutes ago
"The code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules." -- Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl There's some minor rumblings in the physics blogosphere about the latest r...
posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours ago
There's no question the polar bear has pretty much lapped the field in the "big, furry mammals at risk from climate change" stakes. But according to a new paper in the journal Climatic Change, there is ano...
CANADA - According to retired premier Lucien Bouchard, Quebec sovereignty is dead. The statement came today as the former Parti Quebecois leader, the most popular leader in the history of the Quebec separ...
posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours ago
The fun-loving folks blogging on behalf of the Large Hadron Collider offered a real treat to particle physics fans this week, especially those who know their history: an entire post devoted to playing with...
posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours ago
Humans are no strangers to ravaging the land, but the stars have proven a good deal more elusive. So far, our ethical concerns have remained limited to the contamination of extraterrestrial environments, b...
posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours ago
When Mark Twain said that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco, he was talking about the fog and the strong afternoon winds that are set in motion by rising pressure differences b...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours ago
Some Africans within walking distance of one another show more genetic diversity than a European and an Asian living a continent apart.
posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours ago
Late last year, a man named Rom Houben recovered from a coma. This was not a particularly noteworthy event, except that Houben had been in what doctors call a “persistent vegetative state” since 1983. Yet ...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours ago
We generally think of trees as one of our biggest natural allies in the fight against global warming. And they are -- they suck up billions of tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide every year. But in a...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours ago
Infants exposed to different vocabularies early on prepares them to listen to and learn multiple languages.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours ago
Some animals identified as being dinosaurs may have evolved from birds, according to a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Creationists are already all over this ...
posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours ago
A look at how a Swiss man managed to hold his breath for nearly 20 minutes.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours ago
According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, we are now in "The Year of the Tiger." After 1.5 million years of existence, however, tigers could become extinct during our lifetime, according to the Wildlife Con...
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours ago
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and, more recently, a philanthropist tackling AIDS and malaria is now turning his attention to clean energy. Last Friday, he spoke at the TED Talks in Long Beach, CA an...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours ago
The National Wildlife Federation has just named 11 animals that deserve gold medals for their extraordinary strength, speed, agility, endurance and other athlete-associated capabilities. River Otter (Credi...
posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours ago
Earth's earliest creatures may have dragged themselves along like a sea anemone some 565 million years ago.
Haven't heard much about the NAFTA Superhighway Trade Corridor since it got promoted from a conspiracy theory to a US Dept of Energy plan called the Western Energy Corridor, embraced by Alberta, Saskatch...
posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours ago
Songbirds are changing their tune, figuratively speaking, to cope with deforestation and regrowth.
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours ago
Now we know what the ideal menu would look like on the International Space Station, what's the nastiest packets of goop that would be left at the back of the orbital pantry?
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours ago
Although launching food in space is a necessity, it doesn't mean it has to be boring. Space food has come a long way since the first manned flights into orbit, so here are ten of the best items on the menu.
posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day ago
On Valentines Day, 2,000 to 4,000 people marched through Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in the annual Women’s March for Missing and Murdered Women. A memorial march not a protest, it is organized and led b...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Opposite sides of North America have been experiencing some unusual weather the last few weeks, with multiple snowstorms pummeling the eastern United States, and snow noticeably lacking at the Olympics in ...
posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Gemini III launches, carrying Grissom, Young and a hidden corned beef sandwich into space (NASA). The 1960's were pioneering years for space exploration. Driven by Cold War politics, President John Kennedy...
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day ago
ENTERTAINMENT/ENVIRONMENT - If you came to the Winter Olympics in Canada you might be a bit surprised by how warm it is: A balmy 9 degrees Celsius. Its so warm visitors are wearing t-shirts and going golfi...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Inhaling oxytocin, a hormone linked to romantic love and mother-to-baby bonding, may help patients with autism.
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posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day ago
CANADA - The Conservative government in Ottawa wants to build a second bridge to Detroit, bypassing the Ambassador Bridge which has been the primary source of cross-border traffic since 1929. There are 26...
posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Modern tools of molecular genetics and X-ray analysis have shed new light on the legendary Egyptian "boy king" Tutankhamun, commonly known as King Tut. To learn more, listen to Discovery News’ interview wi...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
When dinosaurs became extinct, some birds got fat and lost their ability to fly, concludes a new study that helps to explain the existence of modern hefty birds, like ostriches, rheas, kiwis, emus, and cas...
posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Revealed in DNA study: King Tut's family tree King Tut, the best-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt, has been puzzling scientists ever since his mummy- and treasure-packed tomb were discovered in 1922 the Vall...
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day ago
TECHNOLOGY - The number of people with cellphone subscriptions worldwide has reached 4.6 billion and is expected to reach five billion by the end of 2010. Depending on where you live in the world cellphon...
posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
The finding shows that bee colonies behave more like giant, single beasts than as individual insects.
posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
I have to hand it to Anantha Chandrakasan, an electrical engineering professor at MIT. By harnessing small changes in temperature and tiny vibrations to develop battery alternatives, he's making micro-powe...
posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Tests also reveal the boy king was afflicted by many diseases and may have walked with a cane.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Archaeologists have uncovered a wine press that was exceptionally large and advanced for its time.
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
NBC prime time coverage of the Olympics is SO disappointing. Way too many commercials, for one thing. And although I like some of the back stories on the athletes and coaches, it really cuts into the time ...
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
The matter reached a searing 4 trillion degrees -- the same temperature reached just after the Big Bang.
posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Chronic lack of sleep could end up costing you more than the price of that extra cup of coffee you need to stay awake.
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft this month made its closest pass yet of the odd, eyeball-shaped moon Mimas, which bears the scar of a massive, violent impact from its past. The 88-mile wide Hersc..
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