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Looming US Financial Disaster 27 Aug 2013 | 06:54 am
Unless Congress raises the debt ceiling, the Treasury Department said on Monday that it expected to lose the ability to pay all of the government’s bills in mid-October. That means a recalcitrant Con...
Physicist Disentangles “Schrodinger’s Cat” Debate 27 Aug 2013 | 05:41 am
In an article published August 8 byPhysical Review A, a journal of the American Physical Society, Hobson argues that the phenomenon known as “nonlocality” is key to understanding the measurement probl...
Common Core State Standards Initiative 27 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
Building on the excellent foundation of standards states have laid, the Common Core State Standards are the first step in providing our young people with a high-quality education. It should be clear t...
Nonstick chemicals may trigger heart attack 24 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
Nonstick and stain-repelling chemicals are convenient, but in terms of health, they might not be worth it. Previously linked to infertility, high cholesterol, and ADHD, a September 2012 study publishe...
Linda Ronstadt: Parkinson’s disease has left me unable to sing 24 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
Linda Ronstadt, the one-time “First Lady of Rock”, is no longer able to sing due to Parkinson’s disease. The 67-year-old, who sold more than 100 million albums worldwide and is widely regarded as the...
Fukushima end-game, radiated water has nowhere to go 24 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am
Image src: http://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/tag/freelance-journalist-rob-edwards/ In the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear plant was destroyed by a triple meltdown in March 2011, the pl...
Earth telescope captures images twice as sharp as Hubble 24 Aug 2013 | 01:52 am
Telescope captures images twice as sharp as Hubble Astronomers say they are now able to capture images of the sky that are twice as sharp as those captured by the Hubble telescope. A team of scienti...
Comet ISON to fly by Mars 24 Aug 2013 | 01:46 am
Image: Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 and given the designation C/2006 P1. Image credit Wikimedia Around the world, astronomers are buzzing with anticipation over the approac...
Images of Star Being Born Captured 23 Aug 2013 | 10:39 am
This image made available by the European Southern Observatory on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, using radio and visible light frequencies shows the Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47. The orange and green, lower r...
“Ghostbuster” Arrested For Conducting Penis Exorcism 23 Aug 2013 | 10:30 am
A man has been arrested in China after he charged a young woman to rid her vagina of ghosts with his penis. The self-proclaimed “ghostbuster” was held by police after he conducted the exorcism for 20...