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Kansas City Star
- Feb 19, 2010
- 6 hours ago
By BARBARA BARRETT The Navy has agreed to pay $1.53 million for a mortality study that could show a linkage between toxic water at Camp Lejeune, NC, ...
Bakersfield Californian
- Feb 19, 2010
- 3 hours ago
Dianne Feinstein to temporarily move more water south from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. If passed, the measure could move an additional 10000 acre feet ...
Statesman Journal
- Feb 19, 2010
- 7 hours ago
By Jeff Barnard • AP • February 19, 2010 A century-old fight about water from Oregon's Klamath Basin ended Thursday with signed agreements that assure ...
Reuters
- Feb 19, 2010
- 11 hours ago
"There is a shortage of treatment facilities that can handle this very salty water, so that's going to become a bit of a bottleneck for the industry when ...
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- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoA new concept vehicle earns money for its driver instead of guzzling it up in gasoline and maintenance costs.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoIt’s not every day that the solution to a worldwide “unexplained” mystery appears on prime time television—especially not in service of advertising potato chips. But a new television ad campaign from Pring...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoI'm breaking my own informal rule and writing about yet another cool MIT innovation this week. After finding out about this off-roading wheelchair prototype, I think you'll forgive me. Amos Winter is a PhD...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoIt’s not every day that the solution to a worldwide “unexplained” mystery appears on prime time television—especially not in service of advertising potato chips. But a new television ad campaign from Pring...
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On the February cover of The Catholic Register, the Church of the Talking Snake makes yet another desperate public plea to jetison their charitable status so that they can pay taxes just like everyone el... - posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe Vancouver games are in full swing by now, so it's time to check out one of the venues that led the city to boast its Olympics would be the "greenest games ever." The Vancouver Convention Centre, formal...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoCould the same armor that protects Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller also prevent serious injury among other Winter Olympics athletes?
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoEven at $200,000 a ticket, the lines for a suborbital ride into space may soon be growing longer. The U.S. government is proposing to spend $75 million over the next five years to send science experiments ...
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoYou never know what you're going to see on your way to work, but nobody expects a scene from "Jumanji." Commuters in Atlanta late Thursday afternoon must have done a double-take when a zebra trotted by the...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoIf you haven't heard about this new Web site yet, pull up a chair. Because you might make the next list of "new opportunities" of empty homes available for pilfering. A new Web site, called PleaseRobMe.com...
- posted by Jonathan Strickland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoI swear I didn't make up that title as a fat joke. Honest. Last Saturday, Kevin Smith (the writer and movie director) launched a series of angry messages on Twitter directed at Southwest Air. According to ...
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Cuando estuve viviendo en la ciudad de Nashville, Tennessee, tuve la oportunidad de tomar más de 5,000 fotografías. Sin embargo, la falta de tiempo ha sido el impedimento para compartir con ustedes estas i... - posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoEighty clay figures depicting both animals and humans have just been excavated in Northern Ghana, according to information provided to Discovery News by the University of Manchester. Tim Insoll of the univ...
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by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Ronald Reagan was already a 'grandfather' figure when he came to office in 1981. It may be unfair to say that he won the election with a single phrase: 'Well....ther... - posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoExplosions that scientists have long used to measure the universe are finally explained as merging, dying stars.
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 19 hours ago*When you own an MS-only computer*, you are a lucky person! Then you haven't to worry about a few things you would encounter when you were collecting (!) different operating systems and desktops. You got ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoSmoke rises from the Austin, Tex. IRS offices after the attack (Alberto Martinez/Associated Press). On Thursday morning, a small plane crashed into the side of a building in Austin, Texas. But this was no ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIt's very easy to say that something is "impossible" when talking about technologies that appear to be more at home in science fiction storylines. And when it comes to warp drives -- the staple of Star Tre...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Winter Olympics haven't just been a public test of Shaun White's hype, Lindsey Vonn's shin, and Johnny Weir's verve--they've also been a test-run for Chevy's plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the Volt. ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDr. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, unveiled new evidence for King Tut's lineage and cause of death at a packed press conference on Wednesday. Hawass confirmed the principa...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSince the recent discovery of abrupt climate change -- that big changes can come quickly -- researchers have been looking for "warning signs" to help us avert "regime shifts" that could suddenly alter thin...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGiant whales are known for filter feeding, but the technique was likely devised by humongous fish that lived during the Mesozoic.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe pilot, identified as Joseph Stack, had problems with the IRS and claimed violence "is the only answer" on his Web site.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoKnowing a horse's genome could pay off big at the race track.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAt least 3.1 million people die of AIDS each year, reports Yale AIDS watch, and scientists have identified a comparable disease, dubbed "Koala AIDS" or "KIDS," which is spreading among the gentle, cuddly m...
- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoToday, the British Ministry of Defence and the British National Archives released 24 files containing more than 6,000 pages of UFO-related information to the public. The material covers reports of sighting...
- *From the simplistic to the bizarre* is for astronomers and astro-physicists a rather small step. Innovative and expensive remote research about the nature of our planetary system shows it. Seeking more ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHermit crabs are just the latest animals found to alter their behavior in the presence of noisy humans.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoEvery great once in a while, you come across something that makes you slap your head and say, "That's...just...brilliant." No, I don't mean the soccer ball pictured here. Well, actually, I DO mean the socc...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPower grids, satellite systems and radio transmissions could all be disrupted by inclement solar weather.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoCould interstellar gas put a speed limit on warp drive propulsion? (NASA/Ian O'Neill). If mankind ever gets off this rock and becomes an interplanetary race, what's next? If we're colonizing Mars, mining t...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe year 2010 is an interesting space nexus. Science fiction fans will wistfully think of the Arthur C. Clarke novel "2010: Odyssey Two." In this literary sequel to the 1968 seminal film classic "2001:A Sp...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days 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 days agoThere'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...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCANADA - 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 - 2 days agoThe 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 - 2 days agoHumans 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 - 2 days agoWhen 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...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSome 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 - 2 days agoLate 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 - 2 days agoWe 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...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoInfants exposed to different vocabularies early on prepares them to listen to and learn multiple languages.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSome 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 - 2 days agoA look at how a Swiss man managed to hold his breath for nearly 20 minutes.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAccording 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 - 2 days agoBill 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 - 2 days agoThe 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 - 2 days agoEarth's earliest creatures may have dragged themselves along like a sea anemone some 565 million years ago.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoHaven'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 - 2 days agoSongbirds are changing their tune, figuratively speaking, to cope with deforestation and regrowth.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNow 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 - 2 days agoAlthough 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 - 3 days agoOn 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 - 3 days agoOpposite 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 - 3 days agoGemini 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 - 3 days agoENTERTAINMENT/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 - 3 days agoInhaling oxytocin, a hormone linked to romantic love and mother-to-baby bonding, may help patients with autism.
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOFRONTERA - 3 days agoEn esta ocasión, le ofrecemos una excelente colección de *15 fotografías de flores, rosas y arreglos florales* para todas y cada una de las mujeres hermosas que visitan *www.FotoFrontera.Com*. No olvide ha...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoCANADA - 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 - 3 days agoModern 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 - 3 days agoWhen 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 - 3 days agoRevealed 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 - 3 days agoTECHNOLOGY - 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 - 3 days agoThe finding shows that bee colonies behave more like giant, single beasts than as individual insects.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoI 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 - 3 days agoTests also reveal the boy king was afflicted by many diseases and may have walked with a cane.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoArchaeologists have uncovered a wine press that was exceptionally large and advanced for its time.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoNBC 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 - 3 days agoThe 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 - 3 days agoChronic 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 - 3 days agoNASA'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...
- *These days thinking is a rare commodity*. In my contributions on this website I try to persuade you to *think*. I know that some criticize me for not bringing the latest pastry recipes or showing more li...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 days agoThirty years ago in 1980, Canada joined the U.S. in a 64 country boycott of the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. . Today, under cover of wall-to-wall Olympics news, Canada has...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoA sample of the Murchison meteorite, plus a test tube containing powdered meteorite material (DoE) A meteorite that hit the town of Murchison, Australia, hasn't quit giving up its secrets. The Murchison me...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoFor the first time, the Missile Defense Agency destroyed a ballistic missile using an airborne high-energy laser. The event occurred during a test conducted off the coast of California by the Airborne Lase...
- *"There has been no global warming since 1995"* [1]! Would you believe that? Well, I do, on the basis of my own facts. I didn't need the lies from a small group of "climate-scientists" who now may well be...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoEngineers in Germany are combining old and new solar technology into what may be the biggest solar power project ever.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoWith so many smart meters being installed and smart appliances in development, how are they going to talk? A handy new wireless controller could help them speak the same language, and tell you what they're...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoWhat astronomy needs is a good road trip movie, and NOVA is happy to oblige with a new series, "The Pluto Files," which makes its debut this Tuesday, March 2, at 8 PM (ET/PT) on PBS. It's based on Neil ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoTracy Staedter chats with cosmic consultants Starsky and Cox to discovery which star signs use technology to find or get rid of love.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 days agoCANADA - International companies Whole Foods Markets Ltd. and Bed Bath and Beyond are boycotting Alberta because of the Alberta tar sands and their continual production of greenhouse gases. Whole Foods op...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 days agoCANADA - Stephen Harper's Conservative government has set aside $200,000 for consultant phone calls to keep the Prime Minister up to speed on changes in America's war on greenhouse gas emissions. The $200...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 days agoCARS - If you're not familiar with the Tesla Roadster here's a quick primer: The Tesla Roadster Company: Tesla Motors Price: $120,000 CDN Layout: Rear Mid-engine, Rear-wheel drive Acceleration: 0–60 mph (0–...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 days agoTECHNOLOGY - This is quite possibly one of the best inventions ever made, especially if you really hate mosquitoes. On Friday a group of scientists revealed their new invention, a "Death Star" of sorts th...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 days agoCANADA/ENVIRONMENT - 1,700 doesn't seem like a small number does it? That is the average number of smog-related deaths that happen in Toronto every year. Its a mind boggling number when you compare it to T...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoA massive dark star voraciously eating matter and dark matter until it is well over 100,000 times the mass of the sun (NASA/Ian O'Neill). Approximately 200 million years after the Big Bang, the universe wa...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 6 days agoTECHNOLOGY - It may be a bit unbelievable when you see it, but cell phones now have the ability to not only take photos and videos but project them also. The technology required to make portable projector...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 6 days agoThe official Olympic schedule so far : "General Electric's entire board of directors, led by CEO Jeff Immelt, is making a long-planned trip to Vancouver for the first weekend of the games, after first sto...
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoContests like the X Prize use the power of prize to throw the doors open on a problem to get all of us, or some among all of us, to go to work on a solution. (The secrets of crafting ...
- *What makes men to men?* Why do we live? Where are we going to? How much time have we left? Aren't these the deeper questions each of us carries around through life? They intrigue me. Haven't we all our e...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoSEX - Remember a couple years ago how you got drunk after work at the office Valentines Party and ended up drunk dialing your ex using the office phone system? Please don't do that again this year. In fa...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThis rare fatality has cast a pall over the Winter Games and renewed concerns about the safety of the luge track.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoEven the mere threat of snow grounded planes and closed schools in much of the region.
- *Tommy Emmanuel playing "Angelina"* in a real relaxing way. I dedicate this music to (Ellinidata) *Angeliki*, who so often surprises me with her useful suggestions, insights you read in her blog and pithy ...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA reconstruction showing the Globe in the foreground and the Rose behind Museum of London Archaeology Tudor theatergoers snacked on seafood while enjoying plays by Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, acco...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoRELIGION - The Chinese Zodiac for 2010. TIGER 1998, 1986, 1974, 1962, 1950, 1938 You are in some kind of conflict. Your money and health signs are weaker and you could be prone to illnesses or accidents. ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoFASHION - Fashion designer Alexander McQueen was confirmed dead yesterday morning. The 40 year and 4 time British Designer of the Year hung himself in his luxury apartment. According to McQueen's twitter w...
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoEarlier this year, the Swedish clothing chain H&M ran into some trouble over its practice of slash-and-dump. When clothes didn't sell, store employees destroyed them, ripping the fabric to dissuade any fas...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe most comprehensive and systematic analysis of the environmental impacts of a changing climate confirms what many individual studies have found -- the arrival of warmer temperatures earlier in the year ...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoSalt does a great job of keeping roads safe -- but at an environmental price.
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOFRONTERA - 1 week agoEl próximo domingo, será el tan esperando *Día del Amor y la Amistad*. Sin duda alguna, este *14 de febrero*, será una excelente oportunidad para demostrar a nuestros seres queridos lo mucho que los amamos...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThere's a new way to eat: it's called breathing. A professor of biomedical engineering from Harvard has invented a device that lets you taste chocolate without the calories. The product, le Whif, was inven...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIn comparing newlyweds who met online and those who didn't, the way they met had no impact on their relationships, according to a new study.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoJust in time for Valentine's day, scientists genetically engineer roses that can produce custom-made aromas.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoFirst of all, I think it's very cool that Sweden has an entire research center devoted to winter sports. It's called The Swedish Winter Sport Research Center, and it has a simple goal: harness all manner o...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoC.S.I.: Miami went where no episode has gone before this past week: into space! Specifically, the world of commercial space tourism. Maybe you caught the preview during Sunday's Super Bowl Game. If not, he...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWe may be lousy runners compared to other animals, but we sure can hold our own in a fight.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe future of the Winter Olympics is uncertain and I fear that no amount of green tech will be able to save the snow. Vancouver's efforts to make the current games sustainable have been laudable, but globa...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoUPDATE (4:00 am ET, Feb. 12): It would appear the initial reports of a "30 meter wide" crater may have been incorrect. No photographic evidence of the location of this mystery crater has emerged and AFP jo...
- *To the mystique from Linux* belongs the GRand Unified Bootloader, or GRUB. That at the very outer border of your hard drive sits an even more impressive, but 512 bytes long Master Boot Record, or MBR, as...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoReconstructions of four of the most unusual animals to have ever existed were publicly unveiled this week at Stony Brook University, according to a press release issued by the university. The animals inclu...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoAccording to a national survey released today by the Girl Scouts on the eve of New York City’s legendary Fashion Week, most girls are happy with their bodies and reject thin fashion models as unrealistic. ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoManatees, sea turtles and fish in the Sunshine State are dying in record numbers because of the unusually long cold snap.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA new article just out in New Scientist suggests that the lawless seas off the coast of Somalia may be in serious environmental danger, as pirates allow fishermen to resort to destructive, unregulated fish...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoStuttering is almost certainly the result of a biological problem, not an emotional one.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThousands flocked to the former prison where Mandela took his first steps as a free man 20 years ago.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoFederal officials are proposing a $78.5 million plan to keep this invasive species out of the Great Lakes.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 week agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy We've grown up with a Christian-Roman version of European and world history, primarily the Fall of Rome. The Romans --we are taught --created a great empire characte...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoPeople who were near Ground Zero on 9/11 have experienced headaches for years afterward.
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhen did engineers name the components of current and resistance?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThese dinosaurs lived in a kind of prehistoric Neverland -- a place where these creatures never really grew up.
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA big aspiration for astronomers is to identify life on planets orbiting other stars. Thanks to NASA's Kepler mission we will know about the statistical abundance of Earthlike worlds in our galaxy in just ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week ago(NASA chief Charlie Bolden, in the control room during shuttle Endeavour's launch. Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA.) Will the next generation of astronauts be sporting corporate logos on their spacesuits? Anythi...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA United Nations panel has informed the government of Japan that its treatment of two Greenpeace activists is in contravention of several articles of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The pan...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOFRONTERA - 1 week ago*El día del Amor y la Amistad* está a la vuelta de la esquina y nosotros continuamos ofreciéndote *las mejores imágenes* para que disfrutes al máximo esta fecha tan especial. En esta ocasión, compartimos c...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA small, invasive weed could boost production of food and biofuels around the globe.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe Huygens probe as it descended through Titan's atmosphere in 2004. Could a similar delivery method seed life on other worlds? (NASA) The speculative mechanism of panspermia could explain how life formed...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoBefore there was Christopher Columbus or Leif Erikson, a band of potentially balding hunters carved their path to the New World.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoTake a step into the past along an ancient street that provides a fresh glimpse into commercial life during the 6th century.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe more bored you are, the more likely you are to die early, according to researchers.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIn the wake of a series of flaws, human and otherwise, found surrounding Climate Change 2007 (aka the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report), suggestions are emerging about h...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOn the trunk of a gnarled, centuries-old oak tree, about 90 miles southwest of Phoenix, Ariz., are odd carvings of six-legged, lizard-like beings. The tree is located at Painted Rock, an archaeological sit...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoNew fossils from the Middle Jurassic period show what at least one species of spider, Eoplectreurys gertschi, looked like when dinosaurs dominated the planet. Check out the incredible detail on this fossil...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThis week at Discovery News you can read how recordings of Rush Limbaugh and Guns & Roses are being used in pest control research. Scientists are trying to rid forests of excess tree-eating beetles. We're ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoConservationists believe closing off or relocating fisheries could help to save top marine predators around the world.
- posted by Jonathan Strickland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoValentine's Day is just around the corner. Whether you await the day with anticipation or curse the greeting card industry for perpetuating consumerism, chances are there's someone out there who expects yo...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe fishing boat captain from Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch died Tuesday night.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoAfter a stressful day fighting the battles of the real world, you sit down at your computer for a virtual vacation with only one destination in mind: Facebook.At the end of the day Muise and her colleagues...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoHeavy snow blanketed streets and canceled school from Baltimore to New York City.
- *If you don't know "Old Spice"* you're not a man, or you are a woman who doesn't know what to give as a gift to a man. *Old Spice* is an iconic American brand in the growing range of male cosmetic product...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA novel approach to controlling tree-destroying beetles uses piped-in heavy metal music and backward recordings of Rush Limbaugh.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhen it comes to attracting a man, a woman really doesn't have to wear anything at all.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA map of the Local Cavity (white region) with the sun located in the center. Dark regions represent dense interstellar gases and the small triangles represent the locations of the stars used in the analysi...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week agoJason Kenney explains the difference between anti-Semitism and legitimate criticism of Israel at yesterday's session of The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, Feb 8 2010 : Irwin Cot...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoCARS - Did you know Toyota is one of the most reliable car brands available? Thus recalls to fix the pedals from sticking is a logical safety precaution in order for Toyota to uphold their reputation for s...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoSnowmageddon churns along here in the Washington, DC metro area, preparing to bring us a possible 6-16 inches more of the white stuff (argh, Snowverdose!) today and tomorrow. And as we prepare to break som...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoDoes human civilization need nuclear energy if it's to survive the next century? Michael Reilly chats with nuclear scientist Hae-Yong Jeong to find out.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoNearly a month after the quake, Haiti's people -- particularly children -- are vulnerable to malnutrition and severe illness.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoMeteorologists would like nothing better than to be able to tell you in no uncertain terms about the causes and effects of major weather events, but the truth is, day in and day out, the system they are tr...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA common antibiotic that can be found in wastewater reduces the ability of plant leaves to capture sunlight.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOver 3,000 dinosaur tracks have been discovered in a gully at Zhucheng, China, according to a recent AFP report. I haven't seen any journal studies yet on this find, but it certainly sounds like one of the...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoPowerful winds and heavy snow are expected to hit the eastern U.S. by this evening.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoAvalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Afghanistan's capital, killing at least 28 people and leaving hundreds more stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThanks to Medicare, which wouldn’t reimburse for the cost of a help-mate robot, Roxxxy the robot is now seeking employment in the adult entertainment business.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoAstronauts may be hitching rides on commercial spaceships by 2014.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA new fossil skull of a bull confirms that beef has been "what's for dinner" since the dawn of humans.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoEnceladus' icy plumes glow as the small moon passes in front of the sun from Cassini's point of view in 2007 (NASA) Saturn's moon Enceladus contains a large body of water under its surface, new research ha...
- *Solar cycle 24* is gearing up these days and is surprising physicists. The last 30 hours the Sun puffed some x-ray clouds around, luckily causing little effect on Earth. Nevertheless after a period of abo...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoEverybody dies, but even after celebrities shuffle off this mortal coil their deaths get the Hollywood gloss. The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, didn’t die of a drug overdose; he was killed. This morning, o...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA hacking specialist reveals a weakness that can force heavily secured computers to spill their secrets.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoEarth can do strange things to continents. Like eat them, for example. Previously, the planet's hot interior was only known to have an appetite for ocean crust, consuming it in subduction zones around the ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe Super Bowl is over, the Saints won, but most importantly, were the commercials any good? (Is it me, or is Danica Patrick wearing less and less clothing every year?) On Friday I gave a brief rundown of ...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf smokers needed yet another reason to take it outside, here it is.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoAs births to older mothers have increased, so has the number of autism cases.
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoUltra-Micro Urban Architectural Wind. A clumsy name for really small wind power; smaller even than the residential turbines sometimes pressed into service in the urban environment (because wind makes so mu...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoI have some exciting bean news that bodes well for struggling smallholder farmers in Africa. The Rwanda Agricultural Research Institute announced that it has unveiled 15 varieties of climbing beans that pu...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWildlife conservation programs around the world are desperately trying to keep the endangered cats from going extinct.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
- *About 1690 Johann Pachelbel* was as famous as Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler or Hank Marvin are today. But then for baroque organ, bass, cello and violins. *Neurenberg*, Germany, at that time didn't know 'b...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoUsing hollow cubes of a new, safer nuclear fuel known as thorium, scientists show they can soak up and remove radioactive uranium.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe world of online dating remains murky, but it has proven to be a helpful tool for those who learn to navigate it.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoSome beers contain high amounts of silicon, a nutrient that helps strengthen bones, research finds.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 week agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The establishment derides conspiracies and, for awhile, it was fashionable to deny the existence of 'conspiracies'. In fact, conspiracies are how things get done. Ve...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoSea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean grew by an average of 13,000 square miles a day last month. Great news, right? Well, not so much. For one thing, it was January. Mid-winter. Sea ice cover is supposed to g...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoHeavy rains caused mud and water to overflow basins and flood streets and homes north of Los Angeles.
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhen Hubble Space Telescope first photographed the strange comet-like object p/2010 a2 I just knew it would get attention among the X-Files crowd. The "X" pattern of dust debris, presumably from an asteroi...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoNASA planned to try and launch Endeavour on Monday morning when weather predictions were somewhat better.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week agoCanwest : "Because the president cannot rely on Congress to pass the legislation ... sources say the agreement as structured would allow the White House to use executive power to treat sectors of the Cana...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week agoFrom the National Film Board of Canada and Cinema Politica : *The Coca Cola Case* directed by Carmen Garcia and German Gutierrez "a searing indictment of the Coca-Cola empire and its alleged kidnapping, ...
- Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byad8cmha5s *Any questions?* This works right out of the box or from the Xtranormalwebsite... It took me 20 minutes. My Opera e-friend *Mrs. Angeliki,* "Ellinidata...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoReginald Earnshaw lied about his age to enter the British navy and then died during a German attack in 1941.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoI remember well the first time I set foot on Antarctica. It was, amazing as it seems to me, almost exactly 17 years ago: February 11, 1993. I was co-leader of a Greenpeace expedition to find Japanese whali...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe Toyota recall may be a harbinger of things to come in the auto industry, where vehicle electronics are getting more and more complex.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoBoa Senior died last week, ending ancient Andaman culture Alok Das/ Survival International A tribal language thought to have existed for 65,000 years has disappeared forever in India's Andaman Islands, tak...
- posted by Josh Clark at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoBlood and gore don't always win the ratings wars.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe White House's proposed NASA budget draws on lessons learned from the past and could change the future of the space program.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoAs the Super Bowl weekend begins, excitement (or dread) is building for the infamous Super Bowl commercials that will grace our screens at half time. I'm hoping there might be one or two space-themed ads. ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoTracy Staedter chats with Tokao Someya, associate professor at the University of Tokyo, about how he uses carbon nanotubes to make flexible circuits.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoSubmitted by guest blogger Debbie Salamone of the Pew Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast. Polar bears won’t be the only ones paying the price as the Arctic melts. The economic impact of losing th...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThere are places around the Concord woods near Walden Pond that the naturalist Henry David Thoreau probably would not recognize. As climate has warmed in the northeastern U.S., many of the native plants th...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe myth claims that a woman's ability to think is impaired by pregnancy and mothering a newborn.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoAn international team of scientists has announced the discovery of "turtle of Angola," a Late Cretaceous reptile that was one of the earliest known marine turtles from Africa. The seafaring turtle, Angolac...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoUsually water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and temperatures below that. But now scientists - reporting today in the journal Science -- have found a way to keep water in a liquid form at -40 degrees F. ...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoWomen with high levels of flame retardants in their blood took longer to become pregnant, and children scored lower on development tests.
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOFRONTERA - 2 weeks agoYo creo que todos admiramos la magia de los colores en cualquiera de sus representaciones. Por eso mismo y a manera de tributo a la famosa paleta de los pantones, les traigo el día de hoy 21 imágenes de co...
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoOne of the more interesting online efforts to spring up in the wake of the Haiti earthquake is Wired's Haiti Rewired. It's part and parcel of an outpouring of great geeky thinking about how tech can help H...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoFreezing weather has led to a series of new sinkholes swallowing up strawberry fields and threatening highways and homes in Florida.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 weeks agoIndustry Minister Tony Clement reprises George Bush's 2004 "Hard Work" performance: "There’s no question that when we reviewed the situation there is a *lot of* *work* to be done. We’re doing *work* right...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoLeroy Chiao, member of the Augustine Commission, shares his excitement for the future of U.S. human spaceflight and how companies are now taking the lead.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 weeks agoSomehow I don't think this is what Olympic organizers meant when they promised the greenest Games ever. Temperature today at Vancouver airport - a snow-sizzling 13°C A week from now Cypress Mountain wil...
- *The cradle of democracy is in trouble: Greece.* It is a member of the European Union and in the so-called "Euro"-zone. The country is too small to carry its gigantic debts (300 billion dollar at a GNI of ...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoA couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the amazing sounds of Saturn's rings, and how they have inspired composers to create their own "music of the spheres." Apparently the supernovae were feeling a little l...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoIt's been a good long while since the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-air a few minutes after launch on January 28, 1986, killing all the astronauts (and one schoolteacher) aboard. Now some new ho...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThis is normal. Most of the 1,600 or so quakes since January 17 have been very mellow. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of qukes to have happen in a couple of weeks, but the vast majority of these have ...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoOne of the biggest, meanest El Niño episodes of the 20th Century came and went and almost nobody noticed. It was 1918, a year when many people had their hands full just staying alive. The first World War w...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe military will airlift 145 bomb-detection dogs over course of a year.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoTiny-brained insects know how to adjust their bodies and ride winds to get to where they want to go.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoGiant pandas Tai Shan and Mei Lan will soon begin their new lives in China, destined for breeding programs that hopefully will improve the population status of their endangered species. At Discovery News, ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoEgypt's antiquities chief unveiled the $14.5 million project, touting it as a sign of Christian-Muslim coexistence.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoRobonaut 2, a cutting edge humanoid machine, may one day come to a factory -- or a space station -- near you.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe attack on the 38-year-old man was the 14th deadly shark attack in Florida since 1896.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 weeks agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The time has come to abolish the CIA --*to smash it into a thousand pieces*--as JFK had promised! Its leadership should be dismissed and investigated. Where there is...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoMountain waves can affect weather, the ozone layer and your flight to Denver, but until now no one had mapped them out in 3-D.
- posted by Josh Clark at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoGood news for employers and employees: Flexible schedules often lead to happier -- and more productive -- workers..
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoThe Universe is 13.75 billion years old, primordial helium has been spotted for the first time and key evidence for the inflationary period immediately after the Big Bang has been found. But not all the ne...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoGuest contributor Greg Fish ponders the future of 'human' spaceflight. To survive the rigors of the cosmos will we need a few upgrades?
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoWhenever anyone asks me what my superpower of choice would be, I always tell them: teleportation. Think of all the time we waste moving from Point A to Point B, when it would be so much easier just to be ...
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoHere's an idea for a power plant: the solar-powered sports coliseum. What if you skinned an entire stadium with solar such that it could satisfy its own ginormous appetite for power when filled with specta...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 weeks agoWould you coat a living plant in glass to keep it free of fungus? What about coating a counter in glass to keep it sterile? It sounds highly unusual, but the German company, Nanopool, is about to market li...
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Geithner's Disgrace The new AIG report reveals how the Treasury secretary—and U.S. taxpayers—were fleeced by Wall Street banks.
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Underground Psychology Researchers have been spying on us on the subway. Here's what they've learned.
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The subway is one of the few places in a large urban center where all races and religions and most social classes are confronted with one another and the same situation.""Before the appearance of omnibuses, railroads, and street cars in the nineteenth century, men were not in a situation where for periods of minutes or hours they could or must look at each other without talking to one another."
Supreme Court Dispatch, Eh How the United States' never-ending legal mess at Gitmo is spilling over into Canada.
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How to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations.
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( Funny. How do we communicate them to this one ? )
Fix Your Terrible, Insecure Passwords in Five Minutes A foolproof technique to secure your online accounts before holiday shopping season.
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