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- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 35 minutes agoBuilding islands may seem like a simple way to protect Louisiana's shores, but critics say it's too simple -- and won't work.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 35 minutes agoOld computer parts serve as a reservoir to cultivate algae, which can be harvested and used to produce biodiesel.
- posted by Emily Laut at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoScientists have discovered extremely rare fossil trails left by a suckerfish feeding along a lake bottom.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoEnergy companies used to avoid methane hydrates no matter what. Now the industry may be drilling right into danger.
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 4 hours ago*This morning* over our Andalucian village a peculiar reddish sunrise. Right half normalized lights. Ash particles from the Iceland volcano appear to cause a reddish darkening as can well be seen. Picture ...
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoTaking care of your teeth and gums was never more important -- it could affect the health of your unborn baby.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoFind out how you can help with the Gulf oil spill wildlife recovery effort. Here's a hint: soap isn't needed.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoCopepods may be small, but their tiny leg muscles generate the most forceful leaps in the world.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoSometimes even the biggest stars can be bullied. Hubble has spotted a large star ejected from its place of birth, probably catapulted by the gravity of a couple of stellar siblings.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThe 14th-century aqueduct runs along a route that dates back to the time of Jesus.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoForecasting techniques are building toward the long-awaited goal of being able to predict tornadoes an hour before they form.
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 18 hours ago*Is it a miracle we are witnessing?* It's daily news, that oil rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico, not far from the Louisiana coast. Oil in the sea! An ecological disaster unfolding - for sure. Could it i...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoA gemstone noted for its remarkable hardness and brilliance is being tested as a sensor to monitor the conditions necessary to make synthetic gas from coal.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 18 hours agoCANADA/TECHNOLOGY - According to a new study by Statistics Canada 80% of Canadians aged 16 and older (21.7 million people) used the Internet in 2009. That is up from 73% in 2007. Internet use increased in...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoNew research explains the ultimate dinosaur fast food lifestyle. Many gulped down their food whole without chewing.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoThe structure was among several new discoveries at the so-called Avenue of Sphinxes.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoOil spill animal victim tallies may be misleading, since BP has used a chemical dispersant to break up oil released into the Gulf.
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoNew research says that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder isn't all in your mind -- it's in your genes, too.
- posted by Emily Laut at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoE. coli, the infamous bacteria that haunt America’s undercooked meat (and veggies), are making news again—but this time they’re on our side.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoA young female great white shark on exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium last year died in a fishing net following her release, according to an announcement made today by the California aquarium. She is on...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoA headless granite statue of a Ptolemaic king has emerged from the ruins of an ancient Egyptian limestone temple believed to be the burial site of Queen Cleopatra and her lover Mark Antony.
- posted by Emily Laut at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoE. coli, the infamous bacteria that haunt America’s undercooked meat (and veggies), are making news again—but this time they’re on our side.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoA young female great white shark on exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium last year died in a fishing net following her release, according to an announcement made today by the California aquarium. She is on...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoTrial and error through the years has shown that the dish detergent cleans oil off feathers and fur without irritating the skin.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoNearly two years have past, and families throughout China still don't know what happened to their loved ones.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 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 Stanford University flies straight toward a wall and then at the last second rais...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoA man in India made international news when he claimed to have had nothing to eat or drink for 70 years. Is this possible?
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 22 hours agoART HISTORY - Arguably the greatest fantasy artist to ever live died yesterday. Frank Frazetta was a fantasy art legend famous for his images of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, the Death Dealer and other hero...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoFive are dead and at least 58 were injured in a tornado outbreak that forecasters had been predicting since last week.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoWith the invention of the birth control pill 50 years behind us, challenges still remain before men will have the option of taking a hormonal contraceptive.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoIsh Theilheimer at Straight Goods wonders why there has been no public outcry about McGuinty's decision to hire Goldman Sachs to come up with a privatization blueprint for 49% of Hydro One, Ontario Power G...
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBetter grab an umbrella: Climate change could make the devastating rain and flooding seen last week in Nashville much more common.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agopresumably to hype the opening of his "documentary" film *Exit Through the Gift Shop*, "the world's first street art disaster movie". The Torontoist is following the appearance of new pieces on walls aro...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTony Stark, the mega-rich superhero of the sci-fi sequel, builds his own particle accelerator at home. But is it possible? Yes (assuming he can cut a deal with his electricity provider).
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Rapid City SD and Farmington NM, Murder and Hate Crimes: Enough is Enough! * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com For at least the past 40 years, the torture and murder of Ame...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoTECHNOLOGY - My mother has a policy when it comes to the phone. She never EVER buys anything over the phone. If it can't be bought in person or over the internet, then its not worth having. Its also a qui...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Shooting protest march planned *A march to protest the shooting death of Christopher J. Capps of Rapid City, an Oglala Lakota, has been scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 1, in Rapid City. Capps was shot ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - The Conservative government of Stephen Harper is being accused of discrimination because of its recent cutting of cultural events like Toronto's Gay Pride Parade. Last year the gay, lesbian and q...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThere are some things in life that we just expect to be the same, such as the fundamental constants of physics (like the speed of light or the mass of a certain particle). However, this might not be the ca...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago"Dinobird," a 150-million-year-old fossil for an animal that looked half dinosaur and half bird, has just yielded some important chemical clues, according to a study published today in the journal Proceedi...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoThere's a rumour going around that tomorrow Con Gerald Keddy, Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, will move to shut down the International Trade Committee's hearings on the Canada-Colombia Fr...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - The European Union's bailout (worth almost $1 trillion USD) was greeted today by a soaring Euro and a stock market rebound. The bailout was a bandage solution to a spreading debt crisis in Europ...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNot seen outside the Pacific Ocean for over two centuries, a gray whale has been spotted swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA 10-million-year-old nursery for the extinct megalodon shark has just been found in Panama, according to University of Florida researchers who report their findings in the latest issue of the journal PLoS...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - Executive Movers, a local Toronto moving company is getting a bad reputation. It has 17 complaints against them and has been charged twice with defrauding customers. Home owners who are moving ar...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - Tensions remain high on the Korean Peninsula as South Korea confirmed today that traces of an explosive chemical substance used to make torpedoes were found in the wreckage of a naval ship that ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new feature on the USGS lets you relive two months of anticipation as scientists waited for the epic eruption of Mt. St. Helens, which finally came on May 18, 1980.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoFASHION - Until recently there was a Facebook group called "Boycotting Peter Nygard" which was steadily growing. It had 202 members the last time I checked and it was less than a month old. Unfortunately ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis graphene business is getting serious. The fairly new one-atom-thick carbon material--related to the graphite in our pencils--has scientists in a tizzy over its potential. Now it looks like graphene co...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new "facebook" of expressions of mice in pain could speed along the development of pain relievers for humans.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAnimal Planet's Jeff Corwin is down in Louisiana reporting for CBS News on the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On this week's episode, we got a chance to talk to him about the kinds of things he's...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn a reversal of a 20th-century trend, young, educated whites are increasingly moving to cities over suburbs.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHorne helped break down the barriers that kept women of color out of show business.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA high kick to the right or left of the goalie traveling 56 to 64 miles per hour is most successful.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThanks to enormous new MRI and tomography machines that can fit large patients, horses and other big animals are receiving improved medical care. Over the past several months, the technology has been integ...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYou wouldn't think a sunken ship from 2000 years ago could hold the key to the success of a neutrino detection experiment, except perhaps in a Hollywood movie. But sometimes truth really is stranger than f...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoENTERTAINMENT - Sh*t My Dad Says is a Twitter page wherein Justin Halpern, a 29 year old man in the USA posts quotes from his 74 year old father who lives with him. The quotes are so humourous and popular ...
- posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoUsing a computer to control a car makes sense, but when something goes wrong, it goes really wrong.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoEngineers are wrestling with a list of options to cap oil leaking 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoManny Pino, Acoma Pueblo, one of the chairs of the working group on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the World Climate Conference in Bolivia, describes the work carried out by the Indigenous Peoples w...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoCells grown in microgravity generate proteins (absent in normal stem cells) that play a role in bone deterioration.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoTaking occasional deep breaths is critical for keeping our respiratory systems nimble.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days agoSunday, May 9, 2010 Good Morning, On this Sunday, Mother's Day 2010, I'd like send this message out to all of the Mother's. From Grandmother Moon to Mother Earth, to the Mother's who carry the Unborn, to...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Photo: Wiradjuri Traditional Owners protested Barrick Gold's mine destructive operation in Lake Cowal central western New South Wales and its cyanide poisoning. In Western Shoshone territory in the US, Ba...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 2 days ago*PRO-ISRAEL FASHION STATEMENT: At Time Magazine’s May 4 dinner honoring the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World,’ Gov. Sarah Palin wears a pin featuring Israeli and American flags. ”While others ar...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*UPDATE: Oglala Court halts auction of sacred horses* *Temporary injunction granted to stop the Oglala Sioux Tribe Parks and Recreation Department from auctioning off these horses on Mothers Day* Statem...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Western Shoshone, Navajo and Havasupai women honor the Earth each day in their struggle to defend and protect Mother Earth* *From **http://www.care2.com/**: Editor's Note: This post comes to us from our...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAccording to a highly sensitive particle detector, dark matter particles don't appear to exist. However, dark matter detection reports from another, less sensitive instrument suggests otherwise. What is go...
- posted by Emily Laut at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThis “underwater kite” will generate power from tidal currents.
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThe oil spill hurts a lot more than the environment: It gets your pocketbook, too.
- posted by Emily Laut at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoUnderwater volcanic deposits may collapse and cause tsunamis in the Caribbean.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA slushy mix of deep-sea water and oil is hindering attempts to slow the Gulf of Mexico leak.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Wounded Knee photographer files copyright claim against Smithsonian* ** The Smithsonian, with a long history of harboring Indian remains and refusing to return those to Indian Nations, is now the subject o...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoReflecting on our past success in fixing the hole in Earth's ozone layer could help us fight climate change.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days agoContact: Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director Indigenous Environmental Network Cell: (218)760-0442 *Indigenous Peoples Support the Bolivia Cochabamba Peoples’ Agreement of the recent People’s Global Summit ...
- *Hank Marvin*, born in 1941 as Brian Rankin, still is an example for many young guitarists. Being the face of the British instrumental combo "The Shadows" for well over 50 years (!) now, one can hardly im...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe Herschel Space Observatory has spotted a young star blasting a cavity out of a nebula. The resulting 'bubble' is sparking the birth of more stars, one of them with the potential to grow into a stellar ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoMany young women today use "the pill" to treat acne, improve mood and, of course, prevent pregnancy.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAn innocent man was recently freed by DNA testing; but what about the people who saw him do it?
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAs the investigation into the failed Times Square bombing revealed, security cameras are everywhere. But studies show they may not be so effective.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoIn marine environments, there are particular types of microbes that love plastic. They're all over the stuff, happily binding to it and forming coatings. This spring, intrepid scientists are testing sample...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoAs the investigation into the failed Times Square bombing revealed, security cameras are everywhere. But studies show they may not be so effective.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 days ago*Michelle Cook, Navajo: 'How blessed we are to have a cause so worthy to fight for."* *Michelle Cook, Navajo Fulbright scholar, arrived in Bolivia for the World Climate Conference from Maori territory i...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoI’m not losing any sleep worrying about awaking one morning to see an alien mothership hovering over Washington D.C.
- posted by Lori Cuthbert at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoI'm finally in vogue! More women in the United States are waiting longer now to have children than ever before, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. I had my child when I was 41, a full ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 days agoCANADA - The Canadian economy continued to soar in April with major gains in almost all sectors, creating an extraordinary 108,700 new jobs. It was the biggest gain since August 2002. Economists were only ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 days ago*Kahentinetha Horn, publisher of Mohawk Nation News, said this article is as appropriate now, in regards to the economic situation in Greece, as when it was written nine months ago. **CAPITALIST MORAL REA...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe 100-ton dome is designed to funnel leaking oil from the Gulf up to a containment vessel for reprocessing.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 days agoPOLITICS - Remember the old adage, buy low and sell high? Well yesterday the stock markets went on real rollercoaster when someone accidentally pressed the B for billion button instead of the M for million...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoDr. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, tells Discovery News why the findings at Taposiris Magna (today called Abusir) are important.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe new tool measures blood and body chemistry over time and appears to finally be putting a dent in sports doping.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 days agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The state of Texas and NASA hope to take an early lead in interstellar space travel with technologies that sound like dialogue from Star Trek or Star Wars peppered w...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoAn ancient agricultural solution to erosion and runoff gets a 21st Century update.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoExperts who assessed the Exxon Valdez disaster describe how the Gulf oil spill could affect birds, reptiles, shrimp, fish and other wildlife.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoIt might be time to take grandma to the tattoo parlor. Medical tattoos could soon monitor key vitals, including glucose levels.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 days agoThe US Dept of Defense has banned four reporters from Gitmo for divulging the names of two witnesses at Omar Khadr's kangaroo show trial. The reporters are Michelle Shephard of the Toronto Star, Steven Edw...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoBritish cosmologist Stephen Hawking has outlined not one, but three, theoretically realistic ideas for traveling through time, one of which he says is even practical.
- posted by Teresa Shipley at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoNicotine jolts our brains -- in a good way.
- posted by Emily Laut at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoArchaeologists discovered that Mayans had pressurized water -- perhaps a form of modern plumbing -- hundreds of years before European conquerors arrived in the New World.
- posted by Emily Laut at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoBy firing a laser into the sky over Berlin, scientists have successfully created clouds from thin air. It could be the first step towards a radical new way to modify weather.
- posted by Emily Laut at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 days agoA new understanding of how dinosaurs evolved shows that these "terrible lizards" were once underdogs.
- *The Greek crisis takes its toll* - 3 people killed by arsonists burning down a small Bank office in Athens, assisted by 'anarchists' who prevented the Fire Brigades to arrive at the scene. At a mass demo...
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