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  • Sun unleashes earth-directed solar particles into space

    At 5:24 am EDT on May 17, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, ...

  • Near-Earth asteroids and Mars 2 moons considered for future space missions

    Researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, have successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. From April 13 to 15, field experiments were conducted at the ...

  • Gawker launches crackstarter to buy alleged Rob Ford video

    Mayor Ford to Horwath: Force an election TORONTO - They’re not raising money for impoverished children or a cure for cancer - it’s to own the rights to the infamous video of Toronto’s mayor said to be smoking crack. And all that money would be going to Rexdale drug dealers. Gawker, the New York-based news and gossip website that broke the story that there is a video they ...

  • NASA Records an Explosion on the Moon So Bright You Could Have Seen It With Your Bare Eyes

    NASA said in a statement , "the impact site was glowing like a 4th magnitude star." It was nearly ten times as bright as any other previously recorded impact. Unlike our safely cocooned planet, the moon has no atmosphere to protect it, and meteoroids do not burn up as they approach the surface. Over the past eight years, NASA scientists have observed more than 300 impacts, some of ...

  • Russian plane catches fire upon landing

    Plane catches rire upon landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. Russia's deplorable air safety record just got worse. Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was temporarily closed on Saturday morning after a plane carrying about 140 people from the southern Russian city of Stavropol caught fire after landing, a law enforcement source told the Russian news site RIA Novosti. No one was reported ...


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Movie Review

The Good Girl

While The Good Girl purports to be a quirky slice-of-life melodrama about simple people caught in a dead-end world, what it ultimately does is deflate the myth of escape. Jennifer Aniston, in an impressive dramatic turn, plays a sad woman who hates everything about her life, but is powerless to do anything about it. At one point, she literally finds herself at a crossroads, with one turn l ... ...

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  • To manage your diabetes Weird Science recommends the munchies

    Fire ants are an invasive species in the warmer areas of the US, and we here at Weird Science are told by people who have experienced the invasion personally that their fearsome reputation is well deserved. So, normally, you'd expect said people to be happy to hear that the fire ants population seems to be going down. Unfortunately, it's going down because an even more deranged ant is ...

  • Playing Russian Roulette With a Volcano

    January 1981 issue of National Geographic , describes how, in the week running up to the disaster, he and others were drawn into a "strange kind of Russian roulette" with the mountain. While Findley lived to tell the tale, others were not so lucky, and the article includes richly drawn character studies of some of the mountain's ...

  • This week in science Common census

    Climate Consensus image via Skeptical Science, click image for more data and details. If you're old enough, you remember hearing about missile gaps that reportedly posed danger. Here's another perilous chasm: the Consensus Gap. There ...

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day Galactic Wheels

    In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...

  • The science of making babies far from perfect

    A whole generation has been born since Canada's first "test tube baby" saw daylight in Vancouver almost 30 years ago.And it's been 20 years since B.C.'s Patricia Baird issued a royal commission report on the murky ethics of creating life in a petri dish.Now almost 10,000 babies are born in Canada each year through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, as the unheard of has ...

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