posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe Small Working Group of the International Whaling Commission meets in Florida next week, to discuss the controversial draft "deal" that would permit commercial whaling, at reduced levels, for the next t...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoTermite damage costs Americans about $7 billion each year in damage and treatment costs, making them one of the most expensive insects in the country. According to a recent piece in EARTH magazine, that co...
posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoVisitors to Pompeii will be able to experience a live dig next month in the ancient Roman town that was buried in Mount Vesuvius' catastrophic eruption in 79 A.D. The site of the open-door excavation is th...
posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 6 hours ago
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Dwight David Eisenhower, familiarly called 'Ike', may very well have been the last honest Republican. As both General and President, Eisenhower held his positions in...
posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThese microscopic bubbles could help researchers unravel some of the biggest mysteries in oceanography.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoIn the blog for SeaWorld today, the following statement was posted about Tilikum, the orca that fatally injured trainer Dawn Brancheau yesterday: "Many people are asking about the future care of Tilikum, t...
posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoDesigner Yves Behar, perhaps best known for his involvement in the One Laptop Per Child project, unveiled a curious hackable car concept at the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York this morning. Behar, c...
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoNeed some inspiration, or just a breather? Check out this video "The Poetry of Reality." It's lovely.
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoNew sensors built using nanotechnology could read and write information directly into the brain.
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoBy working out in intense intervals, people can squeeze a week's worth of exercise into an hour.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoTilikum, the male killer whale that fatally injured trainer Dawn Brancheau in front of a horrified audience at SeaWorld in Orlando Wednesday, was a breeding "stud" that sired his first first calf when he w...
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe team that fixed the Hubble Space Telescope is now working to develop robotic satellite repair tech.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoBoredom, isolation and raging hormones may all have contributed to the tragic attack by a SeaWorld killer whale.
posted by Dr. John v. Kampen at Dr. John's Hiding Place- 14 hours ago*Ever eaten halal food?* Maybe not. Then you have missed something, because the Western world is accustomed to eat its (industrial) junk food still, or alternatively has to pay artificially higher priced ...
posted by Alison at Creekside - 15 hours ago
C'mon, he's decorative, he's dumb, and besides, since he came out today as a climate change 'skeptic', the Blogging Tories have been falling all over themselves to get their teabagging credentials in orde...
posted by Alison at Creekside - 18 hours agoGo, Paul Wells! A good overview of the Rights and Democracy debacle : Paul Wells from Maclean's, Chris Selley from the National Post, Payam Akhavan who recently quit the R&D board of directors, and Davi...
posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn epoch of ancient time known as the early Pliocene 3-5 million years ago holds special fascination for climate scientists, because levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were about as high as they ar...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe death of trainer Dawn Brancheau today at SeaWorld Adventure Park in Orlando, Florida at the hands of Tilikum, one of the largest killer whales in captivity, was a shocking, terrible tragedy. There are ...
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoI'm seeing news everywhere about Bloom Energy's announcement today of its Energy Server, a new kind of fuel cell that can generate clean energy. So I did a little poking around and here's what I found. Fir...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe star is squeezing a planet 40 percent larger than Jupiter into the shape of a football.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn orca whale attacked and killed a trainer during a performance at the theme park.
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFor the first time, Olympians will be wearing medals that contain gold, silver and copper recovered from old electronics. The metal supplier, Teck Resources, recycled household appliances, electronics and ...
posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories- 1 day agoAs anyone who doesn’t live under a rock knows by now, Tiger Woods is sorry for stuff. He never explicitly stated just what, exactly, he was offering his “profound apology” for, though presumably it had som...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDirk Hannema, a discredited art curator, has the last laugh after a work by Van Gogh is discovered in his collection.
posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories- 1 day agoYour dose of space porn for today comes courtesy of the European Southern Observatory. It shows an amazing cosmic "sculpture" in NGC 346, a very bright star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Th...
posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhile we think of silence as the absence of sound, the brain detects it nonetheless.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Cassini spacecraft sees evidence for liquid water beneath the surface of Enceladus.
posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe colder side of the Antarctic Peninsula now shows signs of melting.
posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe late Sir Peter Scott, founder of the World Wildlife Fund and, I am proud to be able to say, a man who encouraged and supported my early and youthful enthusiasm for matters environmental, once famously ...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThese mini mutts were the descendants of gray wolves, which also happen to be smaller than many other wolves.
posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe cast of The Core, looking baffled by bad science. Neutrinos? You're going to kill the Earth using... neutrinos?! That was the thought echoing through my brain during the November 2009 screening of Rola...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSubmitted by guest blogger Cynthia Mills, reporting from Portland, Oregon. Moby Dick was a sperm whale with an attitude, and there is now new evidence that real sperm whales may just be smart enough to act...
posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas atFondos para tu computadora - 2 days ago[image: Juegos Olímpicos de Vancouver 2010][image: Juegos Olímpicos de Vancouver 2010][image: Juegos Olímpicos de Vancouver 2010] [image: Juegos Olímpicos de Vancouver 2010][image: Juegos Olímpicos de Vanc...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAt the heart of our energy problems today is a raging political debate: should we continue to expand our ability to extract coal, natural gas, and oil from Earth, or should we turn to technologically compl...
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoLast Friday I posted a blog about the Web site, PleaseRobMe.com, which gives away information about social networkers who are everywhere but home in order to shine a light on the dangers of location-aware ...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe move will help preserve the cultural landmark Beatles' Abbey Road Studios
posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhen physicist Richard Obousy isn't thinking about warp drive and theoretical space travel, he's concentrating on getting a reliable ride for your stuff here on Earth. His green shipping site, CitizenShipp...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoGrizzly bears have entered polar bear territory, setting the stage for deadly bear versus bear encounters to come, suggests a study recently published in the journal Canadian Field Naturalist. Should the b...
posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoApp developers are building software that lets you manage energy use or control your home from a smart phone.
posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAsk someone what his or her favorite animal is and most probably won't answer "vulture." That doesn't mean the threatened scavenging birds don't have their defenders, though. According to NatGeo News Watch...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAn enormous whale known as "Your Excellency" received last rites and was buried today at the mouth of the Cai Cung River at southern Bac Lieu province in Vietnam, according to an Associated Press report. O...
posted at http://my.opera.com.nepmak2000/blog (Dr. John v. Kampen) - 2 days ago*People often amaze me*. Like "Big Bill" Murphy. He says about himself to be a steel worker. You must be strong handed for that, I know. It's heavy, steel. Bill plays a Gretsch(-alike?) guitar. That oblig...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSubmitted by guest blogger Debbie Salamone of the Pew Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast. Olympic athletes are earning their medals. But there’s a different sort of race to greatness under way. I...
posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories- 2 days agoThe US is a nation of immigrants, by and large, and now it seems as if the Milky Way galaxy has its share of immigrants, too, in the form of globular star clusters. A new paper from Australian scientists a...
posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoBy dropping dead pigs into the ocean, researchers learn how long marine life can tolerate low oxygen zones.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA new computer simulation predicts hot spots where police intervention will not simply displace crime, but rather erase it completely.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIs there anything people won't try in the war against mosquitoes?
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWith 1,000 teeth in its jaw, the 88.7 million-year-old shark could pulverize its prey.
posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoJust by reading at that title you might have disregarded this article as pure fantasy. And to be honest, I had to read the MIT article twice before I took it seriously. Although it's pure speculation, ther...
posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFor years science fiction writers and astronomers have speculated about the feasibility of terraforming other planets. One dream is to make Mars habiatable for humans by warming the planet and therefore bu...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThis is just weird -- a law has just come into effect this morning that allows guns in national parks and wildlife refuges throughout the United States. The New York Times reported on this story when the o...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThis simple question is probably one of the hardest to answer in all of climate science. Despite over 100 years of hurricane records, and fifty years of satellite-based data, researchers are just starting ...
posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories- 3 days agoNew research shows that Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamun had a rough life: he suffered from malaria and deformed feet, two of his children were stillborn, and he died at the age of 19. Scientific analysis...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAlthough federal law requires choking warning labels on certain toys, no mandate exists for food.
posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoChildren raised in poverty in their first five years are more likely to feel its effects well into adulthood.
posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days 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 - 3 days agoU.S. authorities will return a beautifully painted 3,000-year-old coffin to Egypt, Egyptian Culture Minister Faruq Hosni said on Monday. Decorated with colorful religious scenes, the ornamented coffin cont...
posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAn ancient street was uncovered in Jerusalem earlier this month, revealing what commercial life was like in the Old City 1,500 years ago, and now archaeologists have hit a wall. In a very good way. A secti...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoStudy calls for increased knowledge of the more extreme yet least understood aspects of climate change
posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoWe may not be prospecting Mars anytime soon, but scientists have mapped out where on the planet we should look -- some day.
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAs shuttle Endeavour coasted through Central Florida’s balmy skies last night, what may become the astronauts’ next ride to space was poised on a launch pad a few miles away. Over the weekend, Space Explor...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe blue-green leaf beetle remains may be the oldest example of vivid color preserved on a prehistoric creature.
posted @my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 3 days ago*In my archive is a picture* that has a special value for me. It shows our grandson's first outing to a Spanish fiesta at a late Summer night. One of the few pictures where I am on, usually rather taking ...
posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 days agoAP : "NATO forces confirmed in a statement that its planes fired Sunday on a group of vehicles that it believed contained insurgents who were about to attack its forces, only to discover later that women a...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAlthough the Guinness World Records have yet to respond, a Nepalese man could become world's smallest.
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 days agoCANADA - Young Torontonian hockey players are having pre hockey game boxing matches inside the change rooms... and their coaches are encouraging the practice, despite parental disapproval. Luckily the sca...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAlthough bad weather was forecast, Endeavour landed on time at Kennedy Space Center.
posted @my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 4 days agoUrl movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVwlodvWh7w *Two dogs and four people survived* this peculiar mishap near Anchorage, Alaska, on June 7, 2009. Pilot error was declared the cause and running out o...
posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoFor the better part of a century, researchers have been focussing on shifts in conditions of the tropical Pacific Ocean to try to predict the rhythms of El Niño, the most powerful source of seasonal variat...
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Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoFloods and landslides demolish houses and hospitalize 68 people on the Portuguese island off the northwest coast of Africa.
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 days agoCARS - According to new statistics the average city dweller in the future won't own a car, they'll rent or share one for the occasions when they need one. By 2016 car-sharing programs alone are expected t...
posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 days ago*Senator* Mike Duffy's covering email for the above Con fundraiser : "Thank you for taking a few minutes during this busy time to reinvigorate our Canadian pride, by listening to the Conservative story –...
posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoLet's take five minutes to forget the politics. Forget the economics. Forget the arguments, broken promises and canceled rockets. This is a snapshot from the International Space Station by Japanese astrona...
posted @my.opera.com. (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 5 days ago*"The flags may go out"*, told the Dutch right-wing extremist-politician *Geert Wilders* last night to the press. The Dutch government had fallen an hour before over its NATO commitment to Afghanistan. Ab...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days 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 days 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 - 6 days 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- 6 days 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 Alison at Creekside - 6 days agoOn 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 - 6 days 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 - 6 days 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 - 6 days 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 - 6 days 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 - 6 days 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 - 6 days 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 ...
posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas atFondos para tu computadora - 6 days agoCuando 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 - 6 days 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...
posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 6 days agoby 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 - 6 days agoExplosions that scientists have long used to measure the universe are finally explained as merging, dying stars.
posted @my.opera.com. (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 6 days 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 - 6 days 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 - 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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...
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