By KATIE SILVER Daily Mail UK Europe is developing an asteroid shield… but it won’t be in time Scientists are trying to find a way to protect Earth from the giant rocks which travel around the Milky Way. Run out of Berlin with funds from the EU, the NEOShield project, which will look for a way to protect earth from the space rocks, is expected to take three years to complete.
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By Rebecca Boyle PopSci A European octogenarian is the recipient of the first-ever 3-D printed jawbone, made of titanium powder that was sintered together one layer at a time.
By Guardian UK UN nuclear inspectors began a critical mission to Iran on Sunday to investigate allegations that the country has a secret atomic weapons programme.
WND Are members of Congress online pirates, stealing copyrighted material and viewing porn while they are, ironically, working on federal legislation to stop Internet theft of intellectual property?
By Peter Fotis Kapnistos Space-time is a mathematical coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are located in a single continuum.
By Matt Mushalik Crude Oil Peak The Australian Daily Telegraph published today a story on a leaked government report (BITRE 117) which (optimistically) calculated peak oil around 2017, followed by permanent decline.
By CHARLIE SAVAGE NY Times The Department of Homeland Security paid a contractor in 2009 to monitor social networking sites — like Facebook, blogs and reader comments on a news article — to see how the residents of Standish, Mich., were reacting to a proposal to move detainees from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to a local prison there, according to newly disclosed documents.
NJ ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER AMMO BAN & MORE! A588 would enable the Attorney General to ban handgun and rifle ammunition by executive fiat.
Press-TV Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Seyyed Reza Sajjadi says Iran and Russia have turned to their national hard currencies instead of the American dollar in reciprocal trade exchanges.
By Dateline Zero The people of the Sindh region of Pakistan aren’t the only ones who have been forced to seek higher ground. With more than a fifth of the country submerged, millions of spiders climbed into the trees to spin their webs.
By Josh Rogin Foreignpolicy President Barack Obama’s administration has been delaying its planned $53 million arms sale to Bahrain due to human rights concerns and congressional opposition, but this week administration officials told several congressional offices that they will move forward with a new and different package of arms sales — without any formal notification to the public.
By Yahoo News Ancient, Lost Landscape Buried deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean lies an ancient, lost landscape with furrows cut by rivers and peaks that once belonged to mountains.
By Linda Carroll MSNBC News Jan. 29 update: Famed environmental activist Erin Brockovich met resistance as her team tried to test the area around an upstate New York school for clues to a case involving more than a dozen teens plagued by mysterious Tourette’s-like symptoms and seizures.
By JULIAN GAVAGHAN Daily Mail A sophisticated underground ant city once populated by millions of insects has been discovered by a team of scientists. The abandoned megalopolis, which features vast subterranean highways, paths and gardens, was found buried beneath the earth in Brazil.
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By Josh Rogin ForeignPolicy The Cable has obtained a copy of the draft resolution on Syria currently being discussed inside the U.N. Security Council.
By Helia Ebrahimi Telegraph UK The First Lady is better known for shopping at more modestly priced High Street brands. But along with the the Queen of Qatar, Sheikha Mozah, she closed off part of Madison Avenue to spend time in the luxury lingerie shop. Their purchases contributed to a market-spanking 12.5pc lift in sales.
Who built the Great Pyramids? How were they constructed? These are questions that have stymied scholars and caused great debates among archaeologists and researchers.