- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe country added an area of forest bigger than twice the size of Connecticut in the last decade. But a global assessment of Earth's forests wasn't all good news.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 hours ago
POLITICS - The South Korean naval ship below sank today near North Korean territorial waters, setting the South Korean military into a panic over a possible renewed war with North Korea. The waters betwee... - posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 5 hours agoBy Charles Moffat - March 2010. HEALTH - On my lap as I type this is the book "Auto Repair for Dummies"... Its not that people who read such books are dumb, its just that the "Blankety Blank Book for Dumm...
- Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdqjcW8u7Lw *Isn't this moving*, ...euphonious? This Bulgarian song goes about this: A young girl is praying to God. Please God give me eyes of a dove, please God...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories- 6 hours agoIt was a horrible crime against a young child that made headlines around the world: A seven-year-old girl named Somer Thompson vanished while walking home from school one day in October 2009. Her parents s...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoPet rodents display more intelligence than their wild relatives, probably as a result of living with us.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoLoggers came across the wreckage of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, but it's not clear how it got there.
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoElectrodes and a computer translates biological nerve signals into computerized signals that control electric motors in a bionic arm and hand.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoIf the violent conditions observed so far are any indication, this weekend's weather forecast for Neptune can't be good.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoWhen the Vice President dropped the f-bomb this week, he sparked a flurry of controversy, but researchers point out cussing has been around for centuries.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoBees' color vision clocks in as the fastest in the animal world.
- *Palm Sunday is the day* that in Spain and in particularly Andalucia the 'Semana Santa' commences with religious acts and processions. Ever more tourists come to see the colorful, fairylike events. Many v...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoWhy bother producing power when we can simply take it?
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 20 hours agoThe June 2008 Committee on International Trade passed a motion that the *Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement* should not be ratified until an *independent* human rights impact assessment could be carried ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day ago
RELIGION/SEX - A growing scandal is growing around Pope Benedict because he ignored the molestation of children by priests under his authority. The scandal began years ago when an American priest admitted ... - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe 19th-century slave ship became an icon of the abolitionist movement.
- *Sumatra and Chile* play an important part in understanding how delicate our lives are - at a cosmic scale. Heavy earthquakes that rock these regions since 2004 appear to have changed the orbit of the Ear...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe king of the dinosaurs may have had a larger domain than once thought.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day ago
ENTERTAINMENT - You might be surprised by the number of archeologists who believe in aliens... or more precisely they believe there are too many coincidences between ancient cultures to suggest these cultu... - posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe National Renewable Energy Lab, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, has some new deputies in its push to develop cheaper, more efficient solar cells. Meet the NREL bots. In the shiny Proce...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLike a great smokestack, Asia's summer monsoon is blowing high into the atmosphere a climate-altering cocktail of industrial pollutants generated by the burgeoning economies of China, India and Indonesia, ...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNeptune and Uranus may possibly be hiding 4-billion year old clues to interplanetary homicide.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBirds that normally eat insects switch to antioxidant-rich berries just before starting their long journey south for winter.
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas atFondos para tu computadora - 1 day ago[image: Especial de Autos (27 wallpapers de 1920x1200px)]*Nota:* *Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.* Esta sí que es una verdadera colección de wallpapers dedicada en ...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNacre, or mother of pearl, is one of the toughest and most beautiful natural materials on Earth. Now scientists can make it -- cheaply.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoKeeping yourself clean may pollute the environment.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAfter NASA sent a sophisticated software upgrade to Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, the wheeled robot can now "choose" which rocks to investigate. Mars exploration just got smarter.
- posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoCanada has a high tech toy to help them win the New Arctic Land Grab: a big, yellow submarine.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories- 2 days agoWhen the topic of eating meat comes up, on occasion my vegan and vegetarian friends will recite a list of reasons they abstain from consuming the flesh of animals. (Not that they need to justify anything t...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoCounting all of those twinkling lights in the night sky just got a lot harder.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoToday's news about X-Woman, an unknown hominin that coexisted with Neanderthals and our species 30,000 to 50,000 years ago, suggests that at least four different forms of humans were in Europe and Asia aft...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Shroud of Turin, the controversial piece of linen that some believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, could finally be dated accurately. A new method "stands to revolutionize radiocarbon dating,"...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA 30-year-long argument between India and Bangladesh has ended in a draw.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA newly discovered human species likely wore heavy clothing and bracelets and hunted large game.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSensitive Global Positioning System and other satellite-borne sensors have detected the accelerating northwestern migration of ice loss the length of coastal Greenland since 2005. Scientists have known for...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoVenomous snake competitions were recently held in Australia, according to a new study that describes the events: sprint trials in a racetrack, tongue flicking, thrashing, biting when held, and wrapping aro...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIt has now been ten weeks since a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, killing over 200,000 people, injuring a similar number and leaving an estimated one million people homeless. Even as th...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoEven the smoke generated from cooking unhealthy food could be a hazard to your health.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA harsh winter and the apparent spread of pesticides into hives is worsening a crisis among the pollinators, which are crucial for crops.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoI'm not talking about the virtual worlds found in World of Warcraft or Second Life. I'm talking about Earth, our motherland, la tierra. And I'm wondering if those people who spend 16 billion hours a year t...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoScientists believe helium is condensing like a mist in the upper layers of the gas giant planet.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days ago1) You voted *against* stopping a $¼-million government subsidy to an asbestos lobby group. 2) You dogwhistled about abortion in your maternal health initiative for developing countries "wedge" motion b...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoFossils of a new dinosaur have frozen the animal during its final moments.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoCongratulations are now in order for the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus, which has just been named the world's strongest insect, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Human bo...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThese towering fungi lived on algae and bacteria and grew over 26 feet high some 420 million years ago.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoBaboons are enjoying South Africa's wine country as vineyards increasingly encroach on the primates' foraging grounds.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoRight now, I'm toggling between this blog, my email and several Web sites while listening to the news on the radio and sending a text message to a friend. Multi-tasking can stretch a person thin, so much s...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories- 3 days agoWhat could be scarier than breathless reports of random attacks by killer electrons from outer space? Subatomic particles are out to get us, people, and they won't stop until every last satellite has been ...
- posted by Josh Clark at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA generation of Americans could enter the workforce with an unfounded sense of entitlement.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoHeinrich Boere was found guilty of carrying out the slayings of three Dutch citizens as part of a Nazi hit squad.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories- 3 days agoHumans are by our very nature overconfident in our abilities. We often think we are better able to handle mental and physical tasks than we really are, and studies show that the majority of us believe we a...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days ago"Bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," will be used by the Indian military to make tear gas-like grenades.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIt turns out we can reduce carbon released from forest fires by igniting fires, ourselves.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAnalysis of paintings of the biblical Last Supper show that food portions increased from older works.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoHow the brightest stars in the sky are made has long defied explanation...until now.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 days ago{updated below} Dear Prime Minister Harper, While cutting funds from women's groups and aboriginal healing programs, you want to give $ 250,000.00 of taxpayers' money to the Chrysotile Institute (a reg...
- *Wow! That was the day* for us and our Yorkshire "Andy". Spring is nearly here, so we decided to have his long hairs cut. Andy is one of the too many stray-dogs one finds in Spain. As a puppy he suddenly ...
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- posted by TheBlueParrot at Backstage Droppings: Theatre Games On and OffStage - 4 days agoTheatre, art and business... what a combination. As a bit of background, The Blue Parrot Theatre was started back in 1983 and produced a lot of shows before I became involved.. Times were hard and the t...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoA massive dust storm has pushed through China and is ruining Korea's day. The storm has its roots in a mixture of natural and man-made causes, and could be stopped if China adopts better land use practices.
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