- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoPeople have become addicted to social media sites, so that begs the question: are those sites good or bad for you?
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoIce and organic compounds, essential ingredients for life, have been found for the first time on an asteroid.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThe offshore wind farm, if built, will be the nation's first and will encompass 130 turbines.
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 6 hours ago*Disaster struck again for Mr. Gordon Brown*, on election tour through the UK. A widow, Mrs. Gillian Duffy, 66, encountered the Prime Minister and told him (a.o.) about her concern regarding too many immi...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoAmid the violence and chaos of one war, Afghanistan marks the 18th anniversary of the end of another.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe dirt produced by comets can actually be a hazard for visiting spacecraft, what efforts are under way to understand this cosmic pollution? For starters, you could build your own "dirty snowball."
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoOh Eun-Sun was the first woman to scale the world's 14 highest peaks, a claim that has been met with skepticism by fellow climbers.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoFor the first time, the World War II diary will return to the house where Frank first wrote it.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoFor the first time, researchers have developed an iPhone app that translates Iraqi to English and English to Iraqi. The app, which was developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Internation...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe Pentagon wants to develop a flying car not unlike the one envisioned in the space-age TV show "The Jetsons."
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe worm has achieved a near mythic status after scientists presumed it was extinct for decades.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoHumble snails are helping to prevent Cross River gorilla poaching in Nigeria, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. (Credit for Images: Wildlife Conservation Society) The WCS has just launched a ...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoPanda fans hoping to experience the joy of parenthood once again will have to wait it out another year. That's because Smithsonian's National Zoo staff confirmed Tuesday that Mei Xiang is not pregnant, fol...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 11 hours ago*Tariq Ramadan*, Oxford Professor and grandson of the founder of the Egypt 'Muslim Brotherhood', is a controversial public figure, amongst muslims themselves and for others not adhering to Islam. Some call...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoA new video shows how a squirrel reacts when it encounters a dead squirrel.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoMei Xiang, a giant panda at the National Zoo, is not pregnant, as had previously been thought. Over the past several weeks, she instead experienced what is known as a pseudopregnancy.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe Dallas-Fort Worth skies were once dominated by Aetodactylus halli, a new toothy genus and species of pterosaur.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoAn array of weapons dating as far back as 2,400 years is found as ice patches melt away in Canada's Mackenzie Mountains.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoFictional TV crime dramas can influence real-world crimes and juries.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoNimpkish to Sayward, Day2-Day4 of the Wild Migration from Alexandra Mortonon Vimeo. BC: A Mission Statement from Alex Morton: The Get Out Migration is a call to action to make government aware that we w...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThese mounds of asphalt have been leaking oil for tens of thousands of years.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 23 hours agoCANADA - Stephen Harper's Conservative government will no longer fund clinics which offer safe abortions overseas in third world countries. This breaks a long standing agreement that Canada has held for de...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 23 hours agoSpeaker of the House Milliken ruled today that Parliament is supreme and Steve is not the President of Canada. Milliken ruled that government was in breach of parliamentary privilege by refusing to comply ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*Protest Barrick Gold! Rally outside Barrick's Annual Shareholder's Meeting, Wed. April 28 **Once a year, the board of directors for the world's most powerful gold miner converge in downtown Toronto. Be th...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe fledgling Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is teaming up with other radio telescopes to probe the beams of intense radiation emitted by pulsars, potentially answering the mystery as to how they are generated.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThomas Hagan served 44 years for gunning down the civil rights leader.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Bolivia: Life lessons from Alaskan Native Women* *Alaskan Native Women describe what is happening to Alaska and what must be done for the future Seven Generations * *By Brenda Norrell/Censored News * htt...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoScientists zero-in on the chemicals in smoke that seemingly magically trigger seeds to sprout and become more resilient.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAnother Soviet-era lunar rover has been found on the moon. This time, using Earth-based lasers to bounce off Lunokhod 1's retroreflectors, researchers managed to shine some light on the robot's final resti...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhat do asteroids and geckos have in common? More than you'd think! The same force that allows geckos to climb walls also helps asteroid rubble piles stick together.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoShoes are already magical--they can light up, sprout wheels, and tone your thighs. Now an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University is taking them to the next step with a v...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe kite-shaped sails on this unusual spacecraft are propelled by sunlight.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA mini magnetic field has been detected on the surface of the moon, making it a rare lunar refuge from the harsh solar wind.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs responders work to contain oil from a sunken oil rig in the Gulf, researchers point out what was learned from one of the worst spills in history.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSmoking, excessive drinking and other bad habits can dramatically shorten your lifespan.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoChimpanzee mothers continue to carry and care for their infants, even after the infants have died and their bodies have mummified. Learn more by reading an interview with Oxford University zoologist Dora B...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new measure signed into law last Friday by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer would make it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally. The bill would allow local police to question people about the...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoScientists zero-in on the chemicals in smoke that seemingly magically trigger seeds to sprout and become more resilient.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*While Indigenous Peoples gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for the protection of Mother Earth, the Navajo Nation Council continued to negotiate with Peabody Coal to dig out the liver of Mother Earth* Ph...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has done it again, this time imaging the Cat's Paw Nebula with stunning clarity.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Large Binocular Telescope is a seriously big piece of kit being readied for use in Arizona and an instrument called LUCIFER will use it to probe deep into the cauldron of stellar nurseries.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago"Tornado Alley" is really four alleys -- sections of the southeastern US where tornadoes tend have a high probability of forming.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWho wouldn't want a shirt that could stop a bullet and power your iPod? A new fabric can do just that.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCANADA - One of Canada's elite commando units, the JTF2 commandos, have returned home to Canada after serving in Afghanistan for almost 9 years. In their first raid back in late 2001 the team captured a co...
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoEven if you breezed through a few geology classes in your day, it's easy to think of the Earth's interior like a Cadbury Egg: solid on the outside and molten in the center. Yet we've known for more than 60...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoHEALTH - Last year the City Council of Birmingham in England created a program to promote healthy living and general fitness called "Gym for Free", a program which has since won awards and international re...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIn a new Discovery Channel documentary "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking", the world-famous physicist goes on the record about his concern for attracting the wrong kind of attention in our cosmic nei...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoElectric car company, Better Place, announced today that it is launching an electric car trial in Japan, starting with city taxis. Three cars began a 90-day trial in Tokyo that could eventually lead to the...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoCANADA - Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff is promoting a plan which would help farmers and help Canadians eat healthier, home-grown food. The program includes: $80 million for a “buy-local” fund to ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFavorite photographs preserve memories of relatives, friends, pets, events and more that might otherwise be lost to time. Those of us who still have such images often take their value for granted, but it's...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoEven though it happened more than 20 years ago, the world's worst nuclear disaster is still a serious hazard.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoTECHNOLOGY - As the gap between the rich and poor grows there is increasing number of parents who opt for private schools for their children's educational needs. There are benefits to private schooling, n...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago. *Official English translation of final declaration:* *World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth* April 22nd, Cochabamba, Bolivia *PEOPLES AGREEMENT* http://pwccc.wordpres...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoItalian archeologists have unearthed the remains of a 6th century BC Greek temple-like building that came with detailed assembly instructions just like an “IKEA do-it-yourself furniture pack." The elaborat...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoPolar bears have been found scaling near-vertical cliffs to get at tasty bird eggs. It's a dangerous game for both predator and prey -- just another consequence of the Arctic's rapidly changing climate.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFrom sitting quietly by terminally ill fellow chimps to tossing and turning at night, chimpanzees exhibit human-like responses to death, observations show.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAbout 42,000 gallons of oil are leaking into the Gulf of Mexico every day.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA new trend promises to help people lose weight through fake surgery.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSome of the world's largest dinosaurs headed for the hills and evolved all-terrain bodies to support mountain living.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoScientists disagree on how early fetuses may feel pain, although a new Nebraska law is based on the idea that they do have the sensation after 20 weeks.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoJust over a year ago, British MP George Galloway was banned from Canada because, in the words of former American Enterprise Institute alumnus and Jason Kenney spokesthingey Alykhan Velshi : "He is a thre...
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe illuminating power of bulky night vision goggles could soon be widely available thanks to a new, paper thin device.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAs reports flooded in about a 'meteorite' burning on an Israeli beach over the weekend, it's time for some skepticism. Why? When found on the ground, meteorites do not burn like fireworks. In fact, the com...
- *When Professor Stephen Hawking* says that we should start *thinking* about life on other planets, he means two things: the dangers of getting in touch with alien lifeforms and preparing for the end of our...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Bolivia: Working Group #7, Indigenous Peoples:* *WORLD PEOPLES’ CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH* * INDEGENOUS PEOPLES’ DECLARATION* *Photos by Michelle Cook, Navajo* * * Mother...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoHEALTH - Today (April 25th) is World Malaria Day, a day to raise awareness about the spread of malaria in 3rd world countries. One person dies from malaria every 30 seconds. A mosquitoe net however cuts t...
- *This won't be an article that many like*, I know. Yet, we are all, from Shangai, Capetown to Denver, in the same boat: the derailment of the global financial system. Some call it 'The Crisis', others like...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoTornadoes killed more than six people in Mississippi and injured many others.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAstronaut Soichi Noguchi took a photograph, from orbit, of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) site high in the Chilean Andes. But the extreme location of ALMA means few astronomers wil...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 days agoBy Brenda Norrell Narcosphere Photo by Michelle Cook http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2010/04/bolivia-being-present-honor-earth COCHABAMBA, Bolivia -- At the close of the World Clima...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 days ago*On the frontline of climate change* *For many of North America's indigenous activists at the Bolivia summit, the fight against climate change is rooted in local issues *Article by Joseph Huff-Hannon (Ph...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 days ago** World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, Bolivia. Photos by Michelle Cook, Navajo. *Photo 2: Elouise Brown, Navajo director of Dooda NO Desert Rock and Manny Pino, Ac...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 4 days agoCNN BREAKING NEWS Terrorist Attack on United States Aired September 11, 2001 - 08:48 ET The following is from the CNN Transcripts VINCE CELLINI, CNN ANCHOR: We could see these pictures. It's obviously ...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoIn the bestiary of powerful climate regimes -- El Ninos, La Ninas and other oscillations of one kind and another -- the Asian Monsoon is in a class by itself. Its rainfall feeds half the world's population...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 days agoYour government announced today it needs more powers to combat terrorism. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson : "These provisions are necessary to protect our country from the threat of terrorism." A redo of the...
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