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posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours 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...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours 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 null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours agoBlood and gore don't always win the ratings wars.
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 19 hours 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 - 20 hours 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...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours 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 - 21 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 23 hours ago
Yo 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago
Somehow 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...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago*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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe military will airlift 145 bomb-detection dogs over course of a year.
posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoRobonaut 2, a cutting edge humanoid machine, may one day come to a factory -- or a space station -- near you.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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...
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days 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...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSome patients in vegetative states are showing signs of consciousness.
posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWho owns a meteorite? Well, it depends on who you ask. Scientists, hobbyists, governments, quacks, museum curators and unscrupulous scavengers all have their own opinion.
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoI received an email from Dennis Hong, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. He said: "Hi Tracy. Just wanted to let you know about an exciting YouTube clip that robotics people may...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe search for alien worlds -- and alien life -- just got a little easier.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA site in Luxor, Egypt will become one of the world's largest open-air museums when part of a $11 million project is complete in March, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said today in a statemen...
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoEach year in late January, an ultralight aircraft descends on Florida with a flock of young whooping cranes in tow. The birds, which are from central Wisconsin, follow the aircraft across the country to on...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThis new computer circuit could lead to a whole new generation of touchscreen devices that power themselves.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA woman watching a tourist webcam in northern Germany spotted a man who was lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting authorities.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoTrees are growing faster as the climate warms, but ducks may be in worse shape as wetlands dry up.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe remains of a 2,000-year-old skeleton found in eastern Mongolia reveal a man of multi-ethnic heritage.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFile this under "I'll tell you where you can stick that report." Now it really will be possible to turn TPS reports into TP, thanks to a Japanese machine called the White Goat that recycles office paper in...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoBugs have some basic intelligence that makes scientists wonder whether bigger brains are better.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoTitanoboa, which measured up to 45 feet long, was the world's longest ever snake. This gigantic boa constrictor- like snake lived 60 million years ago in what is now northern Colombia. Based on a fossil fi...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAt Discovery News this week you can learn about the record-breaking shipment of two U.S.-born giant pandas to Chengdu, China. The pandas will make the journey in record time, thanks to a new fuel-efficient...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe pandas' flight from Washington, D.C. to China is expected to be the fastest yet for a panda making the journey.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoGene doping could be used to modify an athlete's own genes to increase muscle mass or boost red blood cell production.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoPresident Ahmadinejad claims the launch shows Iran could defeat the West in the battle of technology.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 days agoIt's so small it seems to fit entirely inside the *Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism* held in Israel in December. Speaking and chairing panels at that conference were ImmigrationMin Jason Kenney, Isr...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIsland nations could soon drown underneath rising tides, but their people and their governments may endure.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoFor all of the hell that Indonesia's been though in the past five years, its people sure could use some good news. Unfortunately, the latest round of reports are a mixed bag, and a fairly ominous one at th...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOFRONTERA - 3 days agoEl mes del amor ha iniciado y miles de personas están en la búsqueda de imágenes para el día de San Valentín. Nuestro compromiso siempre ha sido ayudarle a encontrar la mayor cantidad y la mejor calidad en...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe predominant theory of the origin of life would make a terrific setting for a space horror movie, or a particularly tense episode of Star Trek: picture early Earth, a noxious place devoid of oxygen, its...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoI’ve seen thousands of astronomical images over my career, but this is one of the few absolute jaw-droppers: A flying X-pattern with trailing streamers. At first glance it looks like a four-pointed Kohga N...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoGang members are increasingly taking to Twitter and Facebook, inadvertently providing invaluable information to law enforcement.
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThis mystery object, located 100 million miles from Earth, may really be the aftermath of a hypervelocity collision between two asteroids.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoTurtle breeding grounds may soon become makeshift ovens.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoWe can’t give machines intelligence until we can figure out what roles creativity, inspiration and curiosity should play.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe ultra hard rocks may not end up on your finger, but they could help scientists learn how to create harder diamonds in the lab.
- *It kept bugging me for days*, the many questions from new-computer users about combining Windows with (K)Ubuntu/Mint 8. To be frank from the onset: I find the pre-installation of Microsoft Windows on new...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 days agoThe Canadian government emphatically and categorically denied today that it is currently negotiating a $90-million payment to the Wall Street hedge fund Fortress Investment Group to bail out Intrawest in...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoMeet the Puffin, a new concept vehicle that could revolutionize the way we travel.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoFans of ABC's Lost are eagerly waiting tonight's premiere of the final season -- and those fans include a good number of physicists, such as Sean at Cosmic Variance. Last week he wrote an entire blog post ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoConventional hearing aids use air conduction to turn up the volume on the sound traveling to the ear. But a new device from Sonitus Medical, turns up the volume using bone conduction. The SoundBite has two...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAndrew Wakefield, the doctor whose research sparked international concern over whether or not childhood vaccines cause autism, was found guilty by a British panel of acting unethically in his research on a...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoWhen it comes to virtual communities, the biggest orchards often have the most bad apples.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoBuzz Aldrin fields questions at a Hollywood premier in 2008. Today he has issued a public statement on the realities of spaceflight (Ian O'Neill) This certainly isn't a surprise, considering Buzz Aldrin ha...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoToday at Discovery News you can find out how Native Americans domesticated turkeys, not just once, but twice, well over 1,500 years before Christopher Columbus and other Europeans set foot on American soil...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe turkeys we eat today ultimately descended from breeds raised by the Aztecs.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoOlder adults not only need less sleep, but they're also more likely to feel well rested.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoNot under construction: The Ares I will likely be sidelined (NASA) Now the rocket booster smoke is clearing, it's becoming clear that NASA's direction for manned space exploration has been re-routed. The m...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoA technology that goes back to nearly the dawn of mankind isn't just enduring--it promises to clean up energy production and storage. Time to get reacquainted with the flywheel. Grid operators usually rese...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoYou've got to hand it to folks who love extreme water sports: when the weather gets nasty -- like life-threatening nasty -- they go out and play. Case in point, Patrick Lawler filming his buddy, David King...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe Obama Administration cites tough economic times and places more emphasis on boosting private space travel.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoFour college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store in 1960, and changed the course of history.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoOne of history's greatest mysteries -- the family lineage of the boy pharaoh King Tut -- may soon be solved. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has announced on Sunday he would h...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoA life-sized robot is now on the market for $7,000 from the firm TrueCompanion. Inventor Douglas Hines introduced Roxxxy last month at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. Hines, who used to work...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThis just out: Pres. Obama's budget request for NASA for the year beginning Oct. 1. Please share your thoughts. Funding Highlights: *Adds $6 billion to NASA’s budget over five years and draws upon American...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoFor decades, journalists were taught to distance themselves from their stories and to remain objective about the subject matter they were covering. There were, of course, a few early memorable examples whe...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe finding of a fish in the process of evolving suggests there may be many new kinds of fish we don't yet know about -- and aren't protecting.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe Obama administration wants to tap private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA.
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoAir travel nowadays is all about the delay. From two conversations yesterday, tales of miserable delay. A family visiting a friend stretched a two-hour flight into twelve, getting home at 2 a.m. And then f...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoSubmitted by guest blogger Debbie Salamone of the Pew Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast. In the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Congress cautiously banned offsho...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoArtifacts of the nearly three decade-old program are being distributed online.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoFor the first time, scientists have shot laser beams at the highest energy level ever. The results could lead to emission-free and safe nuclear fusion power.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 days ago"Your trouser zipper is open" is of course one of two examples from the "Embarrassing Situations" section of the Olympics *"Business Etiquette Protocol Manual",* the other one being "A button has come undo...
- *A dog is men's best friend*. It always was since medieval times. The way we care for them differs from culture to culture, from country to country. Dogs need people, depend on them. People need dogs for ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoFun fact for you: scientists don't really know how the Himalayas formed. I mean yeah, they realize that the India tectonic plate is slamming into the Eurasia plate and has been for about 50 million years, ...
- Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5939DGwYHc Jobim's "Rains of March" (or 'Waters of March') is a classic Brazilian * Springtime-is-coming* song... Have a good weekend without rains! John É pau,...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 6 days agoGood summation of the Cons' latest attacks on 'democracy' over the last few months. That they are getting away with it is, as a protester in the vid states, pretty much our own fault. Notable how litt...
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoAir travel nowadays is all about the delay. From two conversations yesterday, tales of miserable delay. A family visiting a friend stretched a two hour flight into twelve, getting home at two a.m. And then...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoBrown dwarfs are curious objects. Although they can weigh up to 80 Jupiter masses, they are too small to be called stars yet too big to be called planets. Until the late 1980's they were purely theoretical...
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on cutting edge sci-tech? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" m...
- posted by James Williams 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...
- *Russia waited many years for it*, as do several not-NATO-aligned countries, like India. Today the new *PAK FA Sukhoi-T50* stealth fighter made its successful maiden-flight from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. This f...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWith all the electric vehicles on deck, I wonder how recharging them all on the road will actually go. Fast and easy, or like searching an old airport terminal for a place to charge a laptop? New stations ...
- posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoBees can be trained to sniff out explosives and cocaine, and here's something else they can be trained to do: tell apart one human face from another, according to a study published in the February issue of...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoBlueberries contain an antioxidant that could prevent mental health decline as you age.
- posted by Jonathan Strickland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoRodney Bradford is a lucky guy. Charged with committing a robbery in Brooklyn last November, Bradford was freed when his lawyer proved that Bradford's Facebook status updated a minute before the robbery be...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOFRONTERA - 1 week agoDesde hace mucho me he sentido muy atraído por la belleza felina. Me encanta ver a estos gatos gigantes que desde lejos lucen inocentes, tiernos e ingenuos. Y aunque prefiero no acercarme mucho a ellos, si...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe global temperature record of the decade just ended -- the warmest on record -- is not really what a lot of climate scientists would have expected. What many of the experts want to know is, why wasn't i...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week agoShorter Supremes : While it is true that the *Canadian* government violated the *Canadian*charter rights of a *Canadian* citizen when it sent *Canadian* agents to interrogate him in a foreign concentration...
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoAfter decades of war and internal conflict, it would be easy to assume that Afghanistan's wildlife has been as decimated as its infrastructure. Since the 1979 Soviet invasion, the country's had no systemat...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoAl-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden blames the U.S. and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOfficials from NASA have been namelessly warning that NASA should expect some radical changes when the president's budget is released on Monday. In a nutshell: forget the moon, get ready to help commercial...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoSqueaker catfish of all ages communicate with each other by, you guessed it, squeaking, according to a new study in the journal BMC Biology. Previously it was thought that young fish had under-developed he...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe long-sought aqueduct that delivered fresh, clean water to Rome nearly 2,000 years ago, is found beneath a pig pasture northwest of the Italian city.
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on cutting-edge sci-tech? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" m...
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on cutting-edge sci-tech? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" m...
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on cutting edge sci-tech? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" m...
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on the cutting edge of sci-tech reporting? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoLast month, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that the herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba does not appear to help memory or slow the rate of cognitive decline in healthy older...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoLooking at the silvery Moon hanging in the sky, it's hard to believe that quiet, comforting night light was formed in an episode of incredible violence several billion years ago. But that's exactly what sc...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe newly found toothy tyrannosaur featured a hole in its skull and was recovered from a federal wilderness area.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe skull of one of the world's greatest artists could provide crucial clues into the identity of "Mona Lisa."
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoState-sponsored hackers are a growing threat to power plants, water systems and other key public utilities around the world.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhat does 1979's "Phantasm" have to do with humanity's future amid the stars? Well, it all comes down to what we're eager to change about extraterrestrial environments, and exactly how much we're willing t...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoTwo weeks ago, I saw this piece from Wired about Google and several dozen other big companies getting hacked in what is now known as "Operation Aurora." The Wired story reports, "The attackers used nearly ...
- *I like novelties* and I admit having been waiting for this one... Who doesn't know by now Linux MINT-8, also known as "Helena" on her Gnomefootprint? To my opinion the best Linux desktop from 2009. Now "H...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf you've ever lived in a city, near a city, or been on the roof of a city building in the summer, you know the urban jungle gets hot as hell. Growing up on Long Island, it wasn't uncommon for ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWill this new species provide the final piece of the evolutionary puzzle that links birds to dinosaurs?
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoScientific differences over the effect of global warming on hurricanes in the North Atlantic are being resolved, but the news is not so good. While a warming climate is likely to produce fewer hurricanes, ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoFor the US Marines patrolling in Afghanistan, bomb-sniffing dogs can mean the difference between life and death.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoLightbulb manufacturers are preparing to sell new residential light-emitting diode bulbs designed to be more efficient and last longer than compact fluorescent bulbs. I want to be excited, but I'm irritate...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoMexican archaeologists have found an 1,100-year-old tomb from the end of the Maya civilization that they hope may explain what happened to the once-glorious culture.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCave formations in New Mexico and China offer clues to how climate change will affect global rainfall.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWant to keep your eye on the cutting edge of sci-tech reporting? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the "My Favorites" menu in your persona...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIn a finding that confronts deeply rooted beliefs about parenting, a new study suggests that same-sex couples are as effective at raising children as heterosexual couples.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week agowith Peter Hallward, Anthony Fenton, and Danny Glover "As thousands of tons of desperately needed food, water, and medical supplies piled up behind the airport fences-and thousands of corpses piled up o...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe largest dinosaur bone bed in the world may have been the glorious creatures' last stand. Researchers say they can't understand why so many animals gathered in what is today the city of Zhucheng to die....
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your eye on the cutting edge of sci-tech reporting? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that you can add to the...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCan't get enough of Discovery News? Want to keep your finger on the pulse of the cutting edge of sci-tech reporting? If you do, you'll be excited to hear that we've launched a Discovery News module that yo...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe New York Times recently reported on the arrest of Jim McCormick, head of a British company that supplied a device called ADE 651s, which he claimed detects hidden bombs. At least 800 of the detectors w...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhat do redheads and this meat-eating dinosaur have in common? Find out here.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoRunning barefoot places far less impact stress on the feet than running in modern running shoes, a new study concludes.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoDeadly landslides in Peru have claimed several lives and devastated the homes of thousands.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoElderly survivors of Auschwitz gathered Wednesday at the site of the former death camp to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThere's a great piece on Gizmag today about passwords. They reference a data security study completed by Imperva, which analyzed data that was hacked last December on the Web site Rockyou.com. Of the 32 mi...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoHomeless and often orphaned, Haiti's smallest survivors may pose the biggest humanitarian challenge following the devastating earthquake.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoGrass feeding produces more greenhouse gases than feedlot beef because of increased fermentation in the gut, research concludes.
- EMBED-Woman Stripped by Mechanical Shovel - Watch more free videos *What a precision and skill* of that machinist! And what a great machine is that JCB Excavator. Now you know what to buy when she doesn't...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThis latest form of crowdsourcing, the act of outsourcing microtasks to anonymous Internet users, is revitalizing some of the world’s most impoverished communities.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe New Hampshire mountain's record 231 mph wind gust is topped by a wind recorded in Australia.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoMountain climbers, take notice: You may need to take a few more steps to make it to the top.
- *Often I wonder* what comes after the wheel? Translated to computers: what comes after mouse, menus and windows? And don't we stare too much to the Internet for future developments? Shouldn't we talk abou...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoNASA is giving up trying to get its stuck Mars rover moving again, though it hopes Spirit will have a new life as a stationary science probe -- if it survives winter. The rover, which landed on Mars six ye...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOn Wednesday, Apple launches their much anticipated iTablet. (Or is it the iSlate? The iPad? Who knows?) While Apple has a reputation for being the kind of company that thinks of everything, we thought we'...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA handful of major airports are switching to a free Wi-Fi business model for travelers. How can they afford it?
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOver the past couple of years, the global economy has been in rough shape, no doubt. But as we start to pull ourselves out of this slump, have have to ask ourselves: is it a good thing to resume growing? ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week agoLiberal MP Gerry Byrne says he believes the federal government should investigate whether the pieing of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea by a woman opposed to the seal hunt constitutes an act of terrorism. ...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOFRONTERA - 1 week agoAprovechando esta derrama de sentimientos, ponemos a tu disposición la *segunda colección de imágenes de amor*. Ahora sí que no tendrás excusas para compartir con tus seres más queridos una linda postal qu...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoCANADA - The whistleblower Richard Colvin who blew the whistle on the Afghanistan torture issue (essentially Canada was knowingly giving over detainees to Afghan officials knowing they would be tortured fo...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoENVIRONMENT - The photo on the right is a farm in California that has been put up for sale. Its just one of thousands of farms that are now facing desertification. California's drought is now in its 5th ye...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe world's oldest known chimpanzee twins, Golden and Glitter, are among the most successful non-human primate social networkers, with well over a thousand friends at their Facebook page alone. Born on Jul...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoBiodiesel has advantages over diesel, but one drawback is higher nitrogen oxide emissions. Fortunately, researchers at Purdue University created an engine framework that cleans up. Greg Shaver, assistant p...
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhen you drive down the street, you see hybrid automobiles every day.Like automobiles, the hybrid dozer is more expensive than standard diesel dozers.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf there were a planetary nature vs. nurture debate, this latest finding scores one for nurture.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe mystery shape in the aurora over Andenes, Norway (photograph by Per-Arne Mikalsen) On Jan. 20, 2010, Per-Arne Mikalsen was photographing a vast aurora erupting over the northern Norwegian town of Anden...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoLaughter, apparently, really is a universal language. According to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, emotions that all humans share, such as anger, amusement, g...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOut west from the destroyed city of Port-au-Prince, the small village of Petis Paradis (which translates to "Little Paradise" in English) is reeling from a tsunami that struck following the magnitude 7.0 e...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe mystery shape in the aurora over Andenes, Norway (photograph by Per-Arne Mikalsen) On Jan. 20, 2010, Per-Arne Mikalsen was photographing a vast aurora erupting over the northern Norwegian town of Anden...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIn flight tests to determine these animals' aerial abilities, researchers found these dinos were proficient gliders.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoU.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today a new law that prohibits commercial truckers and bus drivers from sending text messages while they are driving. The rule is part of a bigger effort ...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoSiblings can influence a person's development significantly, a new body of research concludes.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoYou've heard of the floating oceanic garbage patches. Now meet the deep sea garbage dumps.
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoI spent my junior high years in Voltageville. Well, actually, they called it Vacaville then. Population 30,000; a little agrarian town/military base bedroom community midway between San Francisco and Sacra...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoImagine living on a South Pacific island and naming all aquatic life in your lagoon “fish.” But your definition was so specific it didn’t apply to whatever creatures lived in the rest of the ocean. This is...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe new film Creation depicts Charles Darwin (portrayed by Paul Bettany) as a semi-reclusive, frail scientist who spent much of his time watching animals and scribbling his observations in notebooks. He wa...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoENVIRONMENT - Canadian scientists have discovered the reason why 23% of bee hives are dying during the winter (where previously they were fine). The reason is a tiny mite about the size of a period which i...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoCANADA - The Samsung Group from South Korea is bringing 16,000 green-collar jobs to Ontario, part of a plan to manufacture green energy equipment. Part of this is because Ontario's Liberal government has b...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoYoung girls may be developing a fear of math based on the way their teachers handle the subject.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoENTERTAINMENT - A prison in Wisconsin has banned the popular roleplaying game "Dungeons & Dragons", claiming it promotes "gang-related activity". Using that argument the prison in question should also ban ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCensus Bureau officials are traveling to the coldest corners of Alaska to kick off the 2010 census.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoNASA's new infrared telescope, called WISE, has spotted its first near-Earth asteroid, a .6-mile (1 kilometer) rock recently designated 2010 AB78. The asteroid, located about 98 million miles (158 million ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoMichelle Obama is an "amazingly traditional" first lady, according to Wake Forest University Professor of Political Science Kathy Smith, who has studied first ladies over the years. "Michelle Obama offers ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoTens of millions of dollars worth of stolen, ancient artifacts were seized by authorities in Cyprus.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOver the past three years I've told you about virgin female sharks that have been giving birth to seemingly healthy pups. This was documented in 2007 and then again in 2008. (A bonnethead shark, born in a ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA woman attending an art class lost her balance, ripping a six-inch tear into Picasso's "The Actor."
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe world record for the highest skydive is held by Joe Kittinger, an Air Force Captain who in 1960 jumped out of a balloon from an altitude of 102,800 feet; about 20 miles up, or three times as high as ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoScientists at the University of Vermont think they have a solution to the Mars dust problem: acoustic levitation, a method that could -- quite literally -- lift dust off any desired surface.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhen it comes to objects in the Kuiper Belt, the vast, icy ring that encircles our solar system, size matters.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoMany of us stay in touch with friends and keep our pulse on "what's going on," by using Facebook and Twitter. Now some reporters are undergoing a special experiment to see just how much information they ca...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWow. What a great story. A man who became trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Haiti survived with the help of a first aid application on his iPhone. On January 12, Dan Woolley, who oversees i...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoCANADA - Today in Brampton a female protester opposed to Canada's annual seal hunt shoved a pie in the face of the federal Minister (Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea, grandmother of 8, a Conservativ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf your day is filled with the sounds of keyboards clacking, copy machines spitting out paper, or general incessant office noise, try tuning into the live sounds of Antarctica for a while. Whale songs, sea...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoAfter the dinosaurs went extinct, the ancestors of some flightless birds didn't bother leaving the ground.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe Large-Billed Reed Warbler holds the unfortunate title, according to avian experts, of being the "world's least known bird." For 142 years, since its first observation in 1867, it was only seen alive th...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe finding suggests cross-species infections may be common in zoos.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe 82-year-old pontiff tells priests to get hip and start using technology to reach out.
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 week ago*By Michael Casey* (CP) Google News | 1-25-10 BANGKOK, Thailand — Adolf Hitler was a psychopath and a monster but rose to power thanks to big business leaders and other supporters who appreciated his vow ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA rare and nearly complete dinosaur skeleton stolen from private property in Montana two years ago has been turned over to researchers.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoGenetically engineered viruses injected into tobacco plants trigger the plants to grow solar cells.
- posted by Alex Constantine at Alex Constantine's Anti-Fascist Research Bin - 1 week ago*Excerpt: WB Yeats and the Glittering Prizes* Irish Times | January 25, 2010 ON JANUARY 1ST this year, Yeats finally went out of copyright, 144 years after his birth. It was a long, carefully managed caree...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf you thought the recent California storms were bad, just wait until the 'Frankenstorm' rears its ugly head.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week agoCANADA - The following is a list of 10 reasons why Torontonians are considered the rudest city in Canada. The sad part is Toronto may deserve this reputation and that there is frankly "no good reason" for ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 week agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy As events this week have proven, SCOTUS is too highly venerated. Their latest outrage is the decree that 'corporations are people' and may spend as much money as the...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 week ago(click photos to enlarge) . Canwest : Thousands turn out for Vancouver rally to protest PM Harper's decision to prorogue Parliament. *"Thousands",* says Canwest. *25,000 nation-wide*. ....
- *The Linux desktop is flexible*. You can easily change system-fonts, window decorations and screen backgrounds. The latter can move. On Linux distributions like Ubuntu Karmic and Linux Mint 8 and their Gn...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIn the waterway near Port Arthur, up to 450,000 gallons of crude oil spills after collision between an 800-foot tanker and towing vessel.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIn the United States, we grow and eat corn whose genes have been tweaked to make the plants more resistant to pests and pesticides. Most European countries don't, largely because the citizenry fears it isn...
- posted by Chris Davis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoChecking in on John Peterson, the excellent, well-versed skeptic of the electric vehicle, finds him increasingly strident in his criticism of plug-ins generally and lithium ion (Li-ion) in particular. He s...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoCosmology suffered a great loss yesterday with the passing of Andrew Lange, co-leader of the BOOMERang experiment, which provided the first experimental evidence that our universe is flat, and offered stro...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 week agoby len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy In the worst decision since Bush v Gore, the US Supreme Court has worked a 'miracle'. Five 'justices' --John G. Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alit...
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