By Nhm.ac.uk Last year came to an exciting end with the discovery of an Earth-like planet, Kepler-22b, orbiting a sun-like star outside of our solar system. It was found by NASA’s Kepler mission and is the first planet detected orbiting in a star’s habitable zone
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By CNN News A Libyan diplomat died 24 hours after he was detained by a militia based in the city of Zintan, Human Rights Watch said. The French Foreign Ministry confirmed Omar Brebesh’s death in prison
By Science Daily They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that “bat flies” have been doing their noxious business with bats for at least 20 million years.
By Neil Bowdler BBC News The eruption of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet could be predicted several decades before the event, according to researchers.
By BBC News Hacking network Anonymous has released a recording of a conference call between the FBI and UK police in which they discuss efforts against hacking.
By Graham Cluley Naked-Security In the past, Anonymous has encouraged supporters to install a program called LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) which allows computers to join in an attack on a particular website, blasting it with unwanted traffic.
By Tyler Durden Zero-Hedge “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” – Upton Sinclair
By Drew fitlife.tv “The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide pol
ozhouse.org Below is a story from New Scientist about a machine that can read your brainwaves and listen to your thoughts. I find it VERY interesting that of all publications – New Scientist runs the piece – PLUS an editorial that says fear not, the devices are crude.
Sourced by OzHouse.org theage.com.au Sugar is so harmful that it should be controlled in the same way as tobacco and alcohol, according to a team of leading public health experts.
By Rise-Earth.com Prehistoric and Ancient Human Societies Almost everything they teach us about the ancient history is wrong: origin of men, civilizations and pyramids. Homo sapiens sapiens is not a result of the evolution and biologists will never find a “missing link”, because the intelligent man is product of genetic engineering.
By Michael Collins Piper Americanfreepress As AFP predicted in the Feb. 6 edition, the call by the publisher of The Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, for Israel’s Mossad to utilize its American-based assets to assassinate Barack Obama has been almost entirely suppressed by the mainstream media.
By Mark Fischetti Scientific American A little snow and rain are falling in a few states today, but the 2011–12 winter has been extremely warm and dry across the continental U.S. Meteorologists think they have figured out why.
By Simone Foxman Business Insider Negotiations between Greece and its creditors about the terms of an orderly Greek restructuring appear to have stalled in Athens, amid troika adamance that the country accept even more dramatic austerity measures in return for the aid they are expected to receive as part of a second bailout
By David Kravets WIRED Federal authorities said Thursday they had seized and shuttered 307 domains, 16 allegedly engaged in unauthorized live sports streaming and the remainder accused of selling fake professional sports merchandise, including National Football League paraphernalia.
By RT News It has emerged that a classified NATO report accused Pakistan’s intelligence of controlling the Afghani Taliban. The revelation, which came at a critical moment for US-Pakistani relations, has been dismissed by Islamabad as “ridiculous.”
Australian dog saves four newborn kittens from house fire
By Charles Riley CNN Money What Would Jesus … Deduct? President Obama offered a new line of reasoning for hiking taxes on the rich on Thursday, saying at the National Prayer Breakfast that his policy proposals are shaped by his religious beliefs.