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- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 minutes agoPreparations are underway at the shore and on water to try and minimize damage from the Gulf oil spill.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 minutes agoBecause the sun is awesome! Actually, it's more than that. Living with a star impacts our daily lives and the new Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will help us predict its next temper tantrum.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 30 minutes agoCANADA - The United States and Canada could see their economies hurt if interest rates go again in the near future. Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is warning G20 countries to keep that in mind when tr...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 42 minutes agoSome animals receive priority care at oil spill wildlife rescue sites, while other animals are euthanized. Find out how experts make these life and death decisions.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 42 minutes agoExperts and volunteers are streaming to Louisiana, eager for direction to help wildlife that may be affected by the Gulf oil spill.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoUnderreported Struggles #37, April 2010 http://intercontinentalcry.org/underreported-struggles-37-april-2010 In this month's Underreported Struggles: Paramilitaries attack peaceful caravan in Oaxaca; Kayan ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThe author of the best-selling book "The World Without Us" thinks that global warming has caused the recent spate of devastating earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Don't believe him.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoSenior adviser David Axelrod says that authorities must first determine the cause of the explosion before moving forward.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoOne of the first signs of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill reaching shore will be the smell of petroleum in the air.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago** *ARIZONA LAW: On Suspicion of Being Brown* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Here is how senators voted on the final version of Arizona Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's new racial cleansing la...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoJust imagine if all the plastic around us was made from algae. We'd have thoroughly green car parts, bottles, containers, keyboards. In several years, this could be real. A California-based company is curr...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 12 hours agoDebate on the Canada-Colombia FTA resumed at the International Trade Committee today with the Chair stating he wasn't going to allow a whole lot of witnesses to testify just so they could put it on their r...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 13 hours agoENTERTAINMENT - Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang has been sold for $175 million to Joe Boxer owner Iconix Brand Group Inc. In the deal Charles Schulz's family will receive 20% of re...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 13 hours agoCARS - The future of cars is in China and India... Why? Because as their economies grow, China and India's population guarantees an age of freeways, expressways, super highways the likes of which will make...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 19 hours ago*As of now you can download Ubuntu 10.04* here and detailed there. About 700 Mb as *.iso* file to simply be burned on a CD as *Live-CD* for testing (without changing anything on your computer) or installat...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoIf the walls could talk, they'd say, "I think an airplane just landed on me." This unmanned vehicle from a research team at the University flies straight toward a wall and then at the last second raises it...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoNew geological maps reveal another level of California's enchanting natural wonders.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 22 hours agoKady has been trying to get some answers on how Justice Frank Iacobucci's inquiry into the Afghan detainee documents is coming along, given that Speaker of the House Peter Milliken ruled on Tuesday that ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoLook mom, no hands! Can you imagine driving a car by using just your eyes? A group of researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin developed the eyeDriver software, which steers a car with eye movements. Ca...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoCould a little motivation help you to focus your eyesight?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNew research argues that wildlife documentaries may deny animals their right to privacy.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhy did the rattlesnake cross the road? It didn't, and that's a problem, say conservationists.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGovernment officials are racing to the scene, but time may be running out.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) was being prepared for launch in Australia, but the wind changed direction, dragging the NCT across the launch site, smashing into a parked SUV. No injuries are reported.
- *The planet Mars keeps intriguing us* the more high definition images of it become available. The best resolution reveals details well below 10 meter/32 feet. Are there trees on Mars, or are that traces of...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe discovery of fossils in gypsum on Earth may help scientists zero in on fossils containing past life on Mars.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoTom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, describes the work carried out by the working group on Forests at the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother ...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoEarly Americans tinkered with the forests by wielding the most powerful tool they had available: fire.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAre we inadvertently sending microbes to Mars? A new study suggests this idea isn't so far fetched, recommending we do a better job of cleaning our spacecraft.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA 40 year-old law is having some pleasant, unintended consequences on carbon dioxide in the northeastern U.S.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPeople have become addicted to social media sites, so that begs the question: are those sites good or bad for you?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIce and organic compounds, essential ingredients for life, have been found for the first time on an asteroid.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe offshore wind farm, if built, will be the nation's first and will encompass 130 turbines.
- *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...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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."
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoFor the first time, researchers have developed an iPhone app that translates the Iraqi dialect of Arabic to English and vice versa. The app, which was developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon Universi...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Pentagon wants to develop a flying car not unlike the one envisioned in the space-age TV show "The Jetsons."
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe worm has achieved a near mythic status after scientists presumed it was extinct for decades.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe Pentagon wants to develop a flying car not unlike the one envisioned in the space-age TV show "The Jetsons."
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoHumble snails are helping to prevent Cross River gorilla poaching in Nigeria, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. (Credit: Wildlife Conservation Society) The WCS has just launched a new program...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days 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...
- *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 - 2 days agoA new video shows how a squirrel reacts when it encounters a dead squirrel.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoFictional TV crime dramas can influence real-world crimes and juries.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoThese mounds of asphalt have been leaking oil for tens of thousands of years.
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- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoThomas Hagan served 44 years for gunning down the civil rights leader.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoThe kite-shaped sails on this unusual spacecraft are propelled by sunlight.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoSmoking, excessive drinking and other bad habits can dramatically shorten your lifespan.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days agoScientists zero-in on the chemicals in smoke that seemingly magically trigger seeds to sprout and become more resilient.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoOne man's road trip with a mobile Wi-Fi device.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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.
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