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CANADA - A huge expose released today by CBC news revealed the Canadian government knowingly committed war crimes in handing over detainees to be tortured by Afghan officials hoping to gain intelligence. ... - posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 hours agoThe International Federation for Human Rights has denounced the Cons "political interference" at Rights & Democracy : G&M : "The federation, an umbrella group of 155 human rights organizations operating ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoPlease don't try this at home...Scientists at the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research have just informed me that they've placed 24 mountain yellow-legged frogs into special refrigerators th...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoSlowly but surely, a picture of climate change at the regional scale -- where it really matters -- is beginning to take shape. Apart from the obvious warming at the high polar latitudes, which already is a...
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoIt only takes a quick Google image search to understand why Angkor, the Khmer empire's ancient seat, makes plenty of "must-see" travel lists. Its ruined temple complexes pop out through the forests, and it...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe Interior Department decides against granting the bird endangered or threatened status.
- posted by Jonathan Strickland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoI'm not a big fan of anonymity on the Web. I recognize its importance, particularly for people who live in countries with governments that monitor Internet activity. But with anonymity comes a certain lack...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThese monster waves are so big that they're able to drown even the largest ships.
- posted by nepmak2000@my.opera.com (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 8 hours ago*Pastelería Casa Isla* from Santa Fé, Granada, possibly isn't as wellknown as 'Hotel Sacher' from Vienna, Austria. But they have something in common: their excellent cakes and pies. '*Casa Isla*' is for mo...
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoIt sounds like the opposite of high-tech engineering, but bamboo bikes are built for high-speed racing.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoAsh and steam aren't the only byproducts of a volcanic eruption.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoClick on image to zoom in. Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) One loaf of bread and one jug of beer: that's what Egypt's Queen Behenu was offered during her funeral, according to a translation of hierogl...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoHousehold dust consists of a potpourri that can include lead, arsenic and other potentially harmful substances.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoLast month, President Obama said he would guarantee federal loans for two new nuclear power plants in Georgia. For nuclear energy advocates, those were welcome words. But it takes billions of dollars to ge...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe ultrasonic songs vary widely, with some winning males emitting tunes that prove irresistible to females.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoSeveral high-profile former missing persons have been in the news lately, including Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard. Earlier this week, Elizabeth Smart’s abductor, Brian David Mitchell, was found compete...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBluefin tuna are delicious. Whether raw or seared, their de (Dr. John v. Kampenep red, yet light-tasting meat is magic on the tongue. They are so revered that one magnificent specimen of their species, a hulking, 512-pound gi... (Dr. John v. Kampen
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWe've explored Mars with satellites, landers and rovers, could the next robotic exploration vehicle be spherical in shape and inspired by the humble wind-blown tumbleweed?
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGiant, extinction-sized asteroids hurtling into Earth may grab headlines and star in Hollywood blockbusters, but airbursts from smaller asteroids and comets are thought to occur once every 500-1,000 years,...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYou may have heard of "Epic Beard Man." Now take a closer look at this mighty mussel's iron beard.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYou may have heard of "Epic Beard Man." Now take a closer look at this mighty mussel's iron beard.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoHEALTH - There is no seasonal flu virus in North America so far in 2010. Normally Canada sees about 4,500 deaths caused by seasonal flu annually (1,500 in Ontario alone). So far in 2010 there has been none...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoTECHNOLOGY - There are some bizarre myths (we might even call them scientific urban legends) about dinosaurs. The biggest of these is the idea that all the dinosaurs died off at the same time. This is act...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMethane is leaking into the atmosphere from permafrost in the Arctic Ocean and could accelerate global warming.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA 30-year-old theory about the demise of the dinosaurs gets affirmation from a team of scientists.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoUnderstanding the conditions of early Earth could aid our search for life elsewhere in the universe.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFollowing years of questions and debate, the Vermont Senate recently voted to block a license extension for a 38-year-old nuclear power plant in the state, essentially closing it down. Now comes the hard p...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe larger the male lizard, the more likely he is to father sons, suggests a new study on brown anole lizards that also determined smaller males tend to sire daughters. Adult females, however, help to cont...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoRadar revealing remnants of a vast ice sheet under Mars hint at the Red Planet's climate changes over millions of years.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPolice take down a display of clothes RFK wore during his assassination and apologize to the family.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoVirtual simulations demonstrate that Leonardo da Vinci's calculations were totally on mark in his plan to build the masterpiece that never came to be.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day ago*Friday Update* : After 68 days of careful deliberation and a mere 48 hours after its inclusion in the throne speech, "thou dustiness" gets binned, having succesfully served its purpose of providing an amu...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWall Street may have its human bulls and bears, but Manhattan has become very popular these days with a real wild animal visitor: coyotes. (Coyote pounds the pavement; Credit: marya) Surprised onlookers ha...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoJudging from the latest Hubble image released today, some galaxies are a lot like schoolyard bullies. I mean, there are more than a hundred billion galaxies in our observable universe, and most of them are...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoCould drinking oxygenated alcohol prevent a hangover? Find out here.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDid the Milky Way cannibalize ancient dwarf galaxies that strayed too close? By studying one primordial star in an existing dwarf galaxy, this appears to be the case.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoVoice synthesis has really come a long way. For the longest time, Stephen Hawking's robotic voice has been the standard. But this week, movie critic Roger Ebert, who lost his jaw and voice to cancer, appea...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFrench archaeologists working at Saqqara have unearthed the burial chamber of a 4,000-year-old queen, Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), announced today. Badly ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSending astronauts to Mars within a decade is do-able, says Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, pointing to a plan for a deep-space exploration vehicle and a heavy-lift rocket based on space shuttle systems. “I ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA new tool for the next Mars rover will allow it to definitively detect organic matter, avoiding controversy that has plagued results from the Viking lander.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace," will lay the foundation of China's maiden space station.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhy do flu viruses hit hardest in winter? It turns out low humidity plays a big role.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoToday's Throne Speech is already leaking on the parquet, hours ahead of schedule. . We may have 1.5 million unemployed with a third of those jobs not coming back, but no worries because Steve has a plan :...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSpace photographs of the full globe of Earth taken by the Apollo astronauts in the late 1960s first revealed just how fragile and finite a world we live upon. The Earth was dubbed the "blue marble" floatin...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe internet is abuzz today with the news that Saturday's massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile shortened Earth's day by about 1.26 microseconds (one microsecond is a millionth of a second) and nudged ...
- posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe horrible earthquake disaster in Chile may be half a world away, but the effects could reach all the way to your kitchen table. Even though we're still in the middle of winter here in the United States,...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Fondos para tu computadora - 3 days agoBonita colección de 9 wallpapers con medidas de 1920x1080 que usted podrá personalizar de acuerdo al tamaño de su monitor. Son imágenes en alta resolución sobre playas, paisajes naturales, escenarios campe...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoCommemoration ceremonies will honor the 65th anniversary of one of World War II's bloodiest and most iconic battles.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIn the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquakes, huge amounts of money, food, clothing, water, tents, and other supplies arrived in the country. People showed up as well: professional search and rescue...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoBorrowing from Hindu spiritual traditions, researchers in India are working on medicines based on the waste of these sacred animals.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoGreen inventor Ryan Hess is hoping to take the solar calculator idea to a whole new level. His grid-free Illumi-Charger design aims to charge small USB devices using only ambient light. The Illumi-Charger ...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe good news: the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news: we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoHospitals could save hundreds of millions of dollars and tons of waste by reusing medical equipment.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoLong before social networks, text messages, phone calls or even the postal system, hunter-gatherers would communicate using eggshells.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe information the satellite gathers could prove crucial to understanding the origin of Mars' moon.
- *Still wondering why I live in Andalucia?* To be close to our roots. The roots of Western civilization I mean. What you know to be the Dark Ages of history in reality were *Golden Ages*. Between the 8th a...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 3 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy When Galileo was compelled to recant, it is said that he muttered inaudibly under his breath: "...but it does move". Earth, of course. The Catholic Church had mainta...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThis is freaky future stuff, where you're the interface. That's where electronics are heading, apparently. Researchers have developed a way for people to use their own skin as a keypad or pull down menu to...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA sleeping supervolcano may be silent now, but when Long Valley does wake up, the results could be explosive.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoSpace weather prediction is a topic that is often overlooked in favor of more "exotic" studies, but is social media and the new solar missions making solar physics "sexy"?
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 days agoCANADA - The new man in charge of a Civil Rights and Democracy organization in Montreal has been appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper: His name is Gerard Latulippe, the same man who in 2007 bashed Mu...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 days agoCANADA - Canada's real GDP grew over 5% during the 4th quarter of 2009 and is expected to keep growing in 2010, beating a forecast of 3.3% growth. It was the largest quarterly growth in almost ten years. ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe waters off southwestern Australia are home to some of the most astounding biodiversity on the planet. But less than 1 percent are protected.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe huge, Cretaceous Era beast was found coiled inside a dinosaur nest, providing a rare glimpse into the feeding behavior of primitive snakes.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAre women and children really first? Depends on how quickly the ship is going down.
- *Apparently a Cyber-War is raging* outside my Mint-8/Ubuntu Karmic computers. Homeland Security authorities, computer vulnerability experts, the military and other plagues combatting entities are involved...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoWith winds up to 100 miles an hour in places, Xynthia, the weekend storm that drowned scores of western Europeans in their houses, must have felt like a hurricane on the ground. In the air aloft, what sate...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoHarvard-Smithsonian astronomers who are currently digitizing and analyzing 100 years of photographic plates of the night's sky have made their first discovery: a new class of extreme variable star.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoFor the people of the Juan Fernandez Islands and the coastal town of Talcahuano in Chile, Saturday morning's tsunami certainly didn't feel small. On the heels of a titanic magnitude 8.8 earthquake, surges ...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoIf you are a regular reader of Discovery News' Earth page, you have probably seen some of the ugly exchanges that take place in the comments sections of blog posts or news story that attempt to cover the f...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoNew genetic evidence shows polar bears withstood a very warm interglacial period 44,000 years ago. So can they survive current warming?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoShark attacks worldwide edged up a notch from 60 in 2008 to 61 in 2009, according to a new report from the University of Florida that also documented 5 human deaths last year due to these attacks instead o...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAbout a quarter of parents said they agreed "some vaccines cause autism in healthy children," according to a new survey.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoSent text messages can be deleted on demand or be set to automatically vanish after a specified period.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoA new laser developed by scientists at MIT could make light-speed computing a reality.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 days agoTwo days ago Jason Kenney's communications director Alykhan Velshi tweeted that Con MP Tim Uppal from the inquiry panel at the *Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism* will be looking for ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe colossal head, after its excavation. Courtesy: Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) A colossal head statue of King Tut's grandfather has been dug out in Luxor, Farouk Hosni, Egypt's Culture Min...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoFive well-preserved trackways found in Japan reveal a small pterosaur with hook-like claws on each foot.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoOn Saturday following news of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile, Google launched a person-finder web site, similar to the one it launched following the quake in Haiti. The site, located at http://chil...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe 8.8-magnitude earthquake that rattled Chile is similar to the Indian Ocean one that triggered devastating tsunamis in 2004. It belongs to a special class of quake called a megathrust.
- posted by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 5 days agoUrl movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY *If you're blue* and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits, Puttin' on the Ritz. Different types who wear a day coat, pan...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 5 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The mantra du jour is that Obama hasn't undone 'Bush'. Ergo --Obama is just as evil as is Bush, or Bush Sr, or Ronald Reagan. Not so and not possible! It's a false a...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoThe good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 days agoENTERTAINMENT - We don't post films on here unless we really like the trailers. "How To Train Your Dragon" is based off a 2003 children's book, but the film is coming out from DreamWorks (Shrek, The Roa...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoAfter the deadly 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Chile, how are the world-famous observatories protected from seismic activity?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoA tsunami triggered by an earthquake in Chile has swept ashore in Hawaii, but there are no immediate reports of damage.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 6 days agoWell, colour me surprised. Who could have guessed that security arrangements for the 2010 Olympics would spawn a further militarization of North America and U.S.-Canada security integration? G&M : Canad...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoA 8.8-magnitude earthquake rattles Chile on February 27, threatening Pacific Ocean nations with a tsunami.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 days agoHow would you like to explore the Martian landscape? Jump aboard the Manned Mars Exploration Rover, a self-contained mobile base designed to deal with the worst the Red Planet can throw at it.
- 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 (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 week ago*If you look for me* the coming days, we might be hit by this rare meteorological phenomenon, that one calls in Spain "una bomba meteorológica"! One means 2 colliding low pressure systems, one of which a ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoReaching the Red Planet could take dramatically less time than once thought using the high-tech VASIMR rocket, according to one scientist.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoJim Atchison, president and CEO of SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment, led a press conference today concerning the death of killer whale trainer Dawn Brancheau. He spoke in front of a see-through tank wall, ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoRecycled cardboard is a decent replacement for styrofoam packaging, but what about heavy items that stronger protection? A company called Ecovative Design is banking on mushroom roots. "We should make prod...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe residence of Sextus Tarquinius, the prince who sparked the revolt that led to the foundation of the Roman Republic, may have been found.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA 60-mile-long iceberg roughly the size of Luxembourg shaved off a new iceberg after crashing into a glacier.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWith this insulator, the body heat produced by one person would be enough to warm an entire home.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoOnly a handful of Hebrew biblical manuscripts have survived the era in which they were written.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf you're a soccer fan, you can almost taste the excitement, right? I mean, the World Cup is coming up in just a few months time in South Africa. Ah....but it you're robotic soccer fan (and let's face it, ...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoWhales are the largest animals on the planet, and when it comes to storing carbon, they act like trees in a forest.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoGentle reader: The roots of all witch hunts, as we learned centuries ago, are buried in human psychology. Sadly, the current crescendo in the witch hunt against climate scientists is no different. Happily,...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIf you came across a plant in the wilds of India that trapped and ate insects by dissolving them in a broth of treacly nectar and bacteria, your first reaction probably would not be to drink it. But some l...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoDespite its best efforts, NASA's orbiter Mars Odyssey hasn't heard a beep from the thawing Phoenix lander, the US space agency announced today.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week agoby 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 - 1 week agoThese microscopic bubbles could help researchers unravel some of the biggest mysteries in oceanography.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week agoNeed some inspiration, or just a breather? Check out this video "The Poetry of Reality." It's lovely.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoNew sensors built using nanotechnology could read and write information directly into the brain.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week agoC'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 - 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe star is squeezing a planet 40 percent larger than Jupiter into the shape of a football.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week agoWhile we think of silence as the absence of sound, the brain detects it nonetheless.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe Cassini spacecraft sees evidence for liquid water beneath the surface of Enceladus.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoThe colder side of the Antarctic Peninsula now shows signs of melting.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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...
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- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week agoThe move will help preserve the cultural landmark Beatles' Abbey Road Studios
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week agoBy dropping dead pigs into the ocean, researchers learn how long marine life can tolerate low oxygen zones.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoA new computer simulation predicts hot spots where police intervention will not simply displace crime, but rather erase it completely.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week agoIs there anything people won't try in the war against mosquitoes?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week agoAlthough federal law requires choking warning labels on certain toys, no mandate exists for food.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week 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 - 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 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week agoThe blue-green leaf beetle remains may be the oldest example of vivid color preserved on a prehistoric creature.
- posted by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week agoAlthough the Guinness World Records have yet to respond, a Nepalese man could become world's smallest.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 week 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 - 1 week agoAlthough bad weather was forecast, Endeavour landed on time at Kennedy Space Center.
- posted by (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Fondos para tu computadora - 1 week ago[image: Paraísos en la Nieve]1600x1200|1440x900|1280x800|1152x864|1024x768| 800x600iPhone & iPodTouch|Nueva iPad ¿*No conoce usted la resolución de su monitor*? *Compruébelo aquí!*
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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...
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