The Obama administration’s claim that criminal background checks discriminate against minority job applicants suffered a lashing from a federal court…
Browsing: Finds
By John Shiffman The government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf…
Nasa scientists say their Opportunity rover has made new discoveries about early water on Mars which may have been drinkable.…
Hundreds of mysterious spheres lie beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, an ancient six-level step pyramid just 30 miles…
By Dennis Hamwel An honest old lady found $100,000 and turned it in. Now Kathleen Ricigliano, 81, would like her…
By Tom Philpott More than two decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted GMOs “generally regarded as…
By Nick Pinto In the first jury trial stemming from an Occupy Wall Street protest, Michael Premo was found innocent…
By KIRK JOHNSON Many Europeans are fretting these days over horse meat, and whether it might have adulterated their shepherd’s…
The first drill sample ever collected on Mars will come from a rockbed shot through with unexpected veins of what…
ASA has released a series of new photos taken by its Curiosity rover that appear to show a “flower” on…
An inmate at a Chinese labour camp left a daring and tragic message in Halloween decorations, which was discovered by…
By Bob Greene Seventy dollars. Gary Bender had difficulty believing what was right before his eyes. Bender, an accountant who…
In a new study of raw pork chops and ground pork, Consumer Reports found 69 percent of samples were contaminated…
New research into the world’s major river systems has found that too much water is being taken out, and the…
By Jennifer Abbey When NASA’s Curiosity rover found a shiny object on Mars last week, researchers believed it was just…