Curiosity Finds Old Streambed on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence — images of rocks containing [...]
Planets Around Pulsars – Can They Support Life?
Pulsars are among the most extreme stars in the Universe: dense balls of matter which are heavier than the Sun, yet only a few tens of kilometres in diameter. They rotate rapidly (up to several hundred revolutions per second) and flash like [...]
Amazing! Plants That Flee From Predators Just Discovered
First observation of predator avoidance behavior by phytoplankton. In the oceans tiny plants swim away from tiny animals known as zooplankton that would eat them.
Scientists at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography [...]
Microbial Bebop: Listen To The Music Of Undersea Microbes
Soft horns and a tinkling piano form the backbone of “Fifty Degrees North, Four Degrees West,” a jazz number with two interesting twists: it has no composer and no actual musicians. Unless you count bacteria and other tiny microbes, that [...]
Singapore court orders journalist to reveal sources
By James M. Dorsey
A Singapore court has ordered veteran journalist and scholar JMD to reveal his sources for his reporting on an audit of suspended world soccer body FIFA vice president and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Mohammed [...]
A Worse Job than Veep
By Jeremy Sare, England.
I can’t be the only one to notice the strong parallels between the posts of Deputy Prime Minister of Britain and Vice President of the US.
For most of the time, they are both considered a political joke, whose [...]
The red lines of 1914 and 2012 – Historic parallels leading to a new global disaster?
By Oliver Krumme.
It has been nearly 100 years since World War I started in Europe after the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Este Franz-Ferdinand and his wife in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, on 28July 1914. In a very recent [...]
Time Bomb: Millions Of Pounds Of Unexploded Bombs In Gulf Of Mexico Pose Threat To Shipping
By Alton Parrish.
Millions of pounds of unexploded bombs and other military ordnance that were dumped decades ago in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as off the coasts of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, could now pose serious threats [...]
Stellar Shockwaves Shaped Our Solar System
By Alton Parrish.
The early years of our Solar System were a turbulent time, and questions remain about its development. Dr Tagir Abdylmyanov, Associate Professor from Kazan State Power Engineering University, has been researching shockwaves [...]
Extraterrestrial “Iron Man”: Buddhist Statue, Discovered By Nazi Expedition, Is Made Of Meteorite, New Study Reveals
By Alton Parrish.
Priceless thousand year old statue is first carving of a human in a meteorite.
It sounds like an artifact from an Indiana Jones film; a 1,000 year-old ancient Buddhist statue which was first recovered by a Nazi expedition [...]
Historic Find on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover, Link to Watery Past
By Alton Parrish.
NASA’s Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named “Hottah” after Hottah Lake in Canada’s [...]
The Universe’s Exit Door, The Point of No Return Measured for the First Time
By Alton Parrish.
For the first time, an international team has measured the radius of a black hole.
The point of no return: In astronomy, it’s known as a black hole — a region in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing, [...]
The Deepest Ever View Of The Universe: Hubble Goes To The Extreme
By Alton Parrish.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace), created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over one million [...]
Catalan Economist Edward Hugh answers questions about the Spanish economy
By Jaime Ortega Simo.
Economist Edward Hugh
Q – 1) Some people blame José Maria Aznar for the economic problems Spain currently experiences. Others (most people) blame Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero for the economic crisis. In your [...]
The Abdulrazaq Tlass affair and the naked truth
By Malik Al-Abdeh.
In the same week as Prince Harry’s nudity made it onto the front page of the UK’s biggest selling newspaper, an equally racy expose was made on a Syrian news website involving a naked Syrian rebel commander and his [...]
An agricultural concern for the future?
By Jaime Ortega-Simo.
Both India and China for the past few years have made large agro-investments in countries like Sudan, Ethiopia and other eastern African countries. The purpose is to take control of the abundant natural resources [...]
Undersea Volcano Erupting In Ring Of Fire: Tune In Live To Robot Camera
By Alton Parrish.
With just a computer or a mobile device, you can virtually join a NOAA-led team of 35 international scientists as they explore seafloor volcanoes. Watch live video from the deep sea and hear shipboard scientists describe [...]
This publication could use some Journalism101: Response to Washington Post oped
By Samia Errazzouki.
If Washington Post, its editors or Mr. Rosenbaum need a translation of this sign, I’d be more than happy to provide one. Please contact me privately.
The scarcity of mainstream media coverage on events and issues in [...]
RNC: Don’t Speak in a Publicly-Built Facility when you Attack Government – D’oh!
By Robert Kelly.
I got bogged down with NK for awhile, so I missed a chance to comment on the RNC and the US election more generally. I have some thoughts after the break, but a Democrat friend of mine wrote the following, which is a pretty [...]
FIFA decision on Kosovo likely to spur Kurdish national aspirations
By James M. Dorsey
The Kosovo Football Federation (KFF) and soccer-crazy Kosovars are not the only ones in anxious anticipation of this coming Friday’s executive committee meeting of world soccer body FIFA that is expected to decide the terms [...]