- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 23 minutes agoCANADA - Forecasters are predicting record non-stop heat for the next three months in Toronto, a prolonged period of hot and dry weather which will test a number of temperature records. The predictions ar...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 57 minutes ago
CARS - Japan has unveiled its first mass-market electric car today, making e-cars more affordable in a growing price war. The i-MiEV from Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is a four-seater, bubble-shaped car priced... - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 57 minutes agoAn updated version of a two-hundred-year-old invention is turning sunlight into electricity.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoFolks in the United Kingdom take April Fools Day very seriously, you know. News media outlets all but fall over each other in their attempts to concoct fake but kinda-sorta-almost believable stories to tri...
- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoWe see it all the time in the headlines: Tiger Woods, Jesse James, John Edwards, Reggie Bush -- all men getting caught having affairs. The tabloids go crazy and play into stereotypes that men cheat because...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 hours ago
POLITICS/RELIGION - 9 Christian people living in the Detroit area are in jail today charged with conspiracy to preparing to overthrow the U.S. government. Their plan was to kill police officers, attack pol... - posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoSlide Show: The Shroud of Turin Through History The Shroud of Turin, the controversial piece of 14- by 4-foot linen that some believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, will enter the 3D age when it g...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoTraits such as nationality, age, recently visited countries, and partial names will be used to screen passengers.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoDo pets go to heaven? This is one of the most asked questions online. Religious leaders, physicists, chemists and other scholars suggest answers.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoGrowing deserts in the Middle East and North Africa have already displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoIt's pathetic. Today, passenger vehicles are required to get 27.5 miles per gallon on average -- the same as they did in 1990. By the time 2016 model year cars come out, however, they will need to get a fl...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoWithout proper composting facilities, throwing away biodegradable materials may actually be worse for the environment.
- posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoDo you love staring at the night sky endlessly? Is it a hobby of yours to try to pick out various planets? Do you enjoy taking photos? Then you can help us!
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoWhat exactly happened at the beginning of time? A new probe may uncover the answer.
- posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThere's no story in the Bible about a long-eared, cotton-tailed creature known as the Easter Bunny. Neither is there a passage about young children painting eggs or hunting for baskets overflowing with scr...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 12 hours agoThe Rights and Democracy chair, vice-chair, and two board members got their say before the Foreign Affairs committee today. The main problem, said Vice-Chair Jacques Gautier, is that too much power accrue...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoAs the Spitzer Space Telescope studies the Orion Nebula, it is uncovering a wealth of information about stellar evolution by watching young stars twinkle.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoChina is going all out to fight natural disasters and climate change. Can it win?
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoIf a new theory is right, pieces of a comet that struck Earth 13,000 years ago might be coming around for another pass.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOn April 3, the iPad goes on sale in the United States. Unless you've pre-ordered one, you're mostly out luck for owning one in the immediate future. But eventually you'll get one, and then years from now,...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSome volcanoes can blast sideways and kill without the usual seismic warning signals.
- posted by Jonathan Strickland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYou may have heard about the sad news of Phoebe Prince's suicide. Prince was the victim of bullying and apparently decided to end her life after a particularly difficult day. Several of her schoolmates now...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDespite NASA's several attempts to make a connection to the rover, Spirit remains frozen in silence.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn light of the bullying and subsequent suicide of a 15-year-old girl in Massachusetts, experts explain why kids harass each other.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoMove over, Google! The Government of Canada is getting in on the April Fools Day action. *March 4 2010 Federal Budget Speech* : "Due to unprecedented demand under the ecoENERGY Retrofit – Homes program, ...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis new type of armor could give a whole new meaning to the term "tank top."
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMars Exploration Rover Opportunity has refused to receive commands from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and as of Wednesday night, its precise location is unknown. This surprise news just released b...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoScientists have discovered new types of "ice quakes" that help them monitor glacier behavior.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDiana, Princess of Wales, was just 36 years old when she died in a car accident with her companion, Dodi Fayed, in 1997. I had seen her, some 10 years earlier, in a few private moments, and can attest how ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHot pink flamingos and other colorful animals are featured in a new Monterey Bay Aquarium exhibit that shows how climate change is affecting species. Please check out this photo preview.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGenes cannot be patented, said a judge, because isolated DNA is not markedly different from DNA as it exists in nature.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoENTERTAINMENT/TECHNOLOGY - I just got back from interviewing some staff at Best Buy and Future Shop (if I had to choose I'd recommend Best Buy) regarding the 3D HDTVs that are currently on sale, the first ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAssuming a Hot Tub Time Machine has the same energy requirements as Back To The Future's DeLorean, what kind of upgrade would it need?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoUnderstanding this primal form of communication is no laughing matter for scientists.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSaturn's moon Mimas is a fan of the classic arcade game Pac-Man judging by a strange picture recently taken by NASA's Cassini Equinox mission.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoReversing his position as a presidential candidate, Obama has decided to open some offshore waters to oil drilling.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoPOLITICS - Two more suicide bombers attacked Russia today, killing another 12 people in Dagestan close to Chechnya. One of the bombers was disguised as a police officer. One of the suicide bombers detonate...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCANADA - Ontario's new minimum wage ($10.25 per hour) went into effect today and various companies are complaining about the effect on their profit margins, but employees province wide are celebrating the ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA new theory emerges to explain how early Earth was able to host liquid oceans despite a weak sun.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDiet changed the entire head shape of a giant dinosaur as it grew up.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoOne of the potential culprits has been ruled out, but the debate rages over what killed off the last mammoths.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA new theory emerges to explain how early Earth was able to host liquid oceans despite a weak sun.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDiet changed the entire head shape of a giant dinosaur as it grew up.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 2 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy We have forgotten what it was like in this country during the Reagan administration. A great reminder may be found in the words of E.L. Doctorow, writing in 1989, wh...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA new marine protected area will help to safeguard "the punk rockers of penguins."
- posted by Jonathan Strickland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoYou may have heard about the sad news of Phoebe Prince's suicide. Prince was the victim of bullying and apparently decided to end her life after a particularly difficult day. Several of her schoolmates now...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe blending and mixing of internal waves helps to explain how oceans push energy around the world.
- *When you are new* to Linux and have hands-on experience with *Windows* you might wonder how similar the functionality of both worlds is. In next then no time you can go on-line, write and receive your Gm...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoOnce thought to be rock art, carved depictions of soldiers, horses and other figures are part of a written language dating back to the Iron Age.
- posted by George Kourounis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThinking about setting one of your teen-aged kids adrift on an ice floe? Geoff Green of "Students on Ice" will do it for you.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFord invited me to take a new electric version of their commercial van, the Transit Connect, for a test drive in Manhattan today ahead of the auto show that starts Friday. The city had flood-inducing rain ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoLast spring, a group of biologists were studying the mating habits of the common toad (Bufo bufo) in the L'Aquila province of Italy. As temperatures warm each year, male toads gather en masse at small pond...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThis bat has the highest pitched call of any animal ever documented, putting even the best human sopranos to shame.
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAn amateur astronomer wound up looking at the right place at the right time to capture the breakup of a comet. The International Astronomical Union called the observation a “major astronomical discovery.”
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 days ago-written by R&D board member Marco Navarro-Genie, on the same day we are hearing from the three fired members of Rights and Democracy at the Foreign Affairs committee (see below). And what a gong show sti...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoCANADA - Bills piling up? Forced to cutback? Not getting enough hours at work? You're not alone. 20% of Canadians is struggling to pay for their home / rent, up 6% since 2006. According to the Conference ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoOn June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 disappeared in turbulent weather en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. For the remainder of the summer, two major efforts were launched by search and rescue crews to...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoFile this under "What will they think of next?" A firm in Australia called Simavita has invented a pair of electronic underpants for people who have incontinence that works to monitor and relay information...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Fondos para tu computadora - 3 days ago[image: Para quienes adoran los gatitos. (15 wallpapers de mininos)]*Nota:* *Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.* A petición especial y expresa por parte de varias de n...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoUnlike all other four-legged animals, elephants use each limb for braking and accelerating.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoPart of the ceiling of Nero's 2,000-year-old Golden Palace collapsed in Rome Tuesday morning, leaving a huge hole in the ground. Experts believe water had seeped into the ceiling, causing it to literally c...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe 10-foot deep pit was believed to contain 30 to 40 carcasses, including endangered tigers and lions.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAn unmanned space shuttle is designed to stay in orbit for up to 270 days and then land on its own.
- posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIf life's got you down today, then here's some news that might cheer you up. Chances are you're not suffering from Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, or African trypanosomaisis (also known as "sleeping sicknes...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe micro-workers could one day carry drugs to tumors and operate microscopic factories.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoBy crashing two proton beams together at more force than ever before, the Large Hadron Collider begins its bid to learn details about the fundamentals of space and matter.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoJust when we're getting comfy with our 3G phones, 4G comes along to shake things up.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe car manufacturer is reaching out to experts in the US space agency to track down a possible electronics issue that could be triggering the 'sudden acceleration' fault.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoParents and teachers might misinterpret bullying behavior, which is actually rooted in social phobia.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoCANADA/HEALTH - What did Pharoah Amenhotep III, Queen Elizabeth I of England and John Glascock of the rock band Jethro Tull all have in common? They all died from bad teeth. Yet Canada, with its incredibl...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoPOLITICS - At least 38 people are dead today and another 65+ injured when crowded subways in Moscow were the target of terrorist attacks by two Chechen women. Witnesses at the two stations targeted by the ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoMercury and Venus will appear unusually close together from now until April 10.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe full moon is out and bright red fountains of lava are erupting from the Eyjafjajokull volcano in live, streaming video.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAs the sun becomes more active, radio astronomers listen into an intense battle between magnetism and plasma deep inside a particularly noisy sunspot.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy As U.S. GDP declines during GOP regimes, it does so because 'wealth' is literally transferred upward to a 'ruling elite' class, a laundered pay-off to the 'base'. At...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoMagnetic fields targeting the moral center of the brain could scramble our sense of right and wrong.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAs if last week's show-stopping images of the Eyjafjajokull volcano erupting in Iceland weren't enough, some kind soul has set up a camera a few clicks out from the volcano and is streaming video for all t...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThese are tough times for the Vatican. Not only is the current pope under fire for allegedly helping cover up child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, but questions have recently been raised about a mira...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoIf this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 days agoRELIGION - Swiss President Doris Leuthard is calling for an international registry to keep track of pedophile priests to prevent them from being shuffled from location to location whenever a scandal catche...
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