| 1 in 4 Brits admit visiting Wonders of the World that no longer exist A quarter of Britons have claimed that they have been to ancient Wonders of the World, wiped off the Earth hundreds of years ago.
Over one in eight (13 per cent) said that they have seen the... | |
| Over 6,000 apply for NASA Astronaut Corps Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA's Astronaut Corps, twice as many as the US space agency usually receives, NASA said Sunday.
Late last year, NASA announced a selection procedure... |
| The universe withholds the mystery of magnetism Why is the universe magnetized? It's a question scientists have been asking for decades. Now, an international team of researchers including a University of Michigan professor have demonstrated... |
| Mars 'Super-Drought' May Make Red Planet Too Dry for Alien Life The surface of Mars may have been parched for too long for any life-forms to exist on the planet today, a new study suggests. A team of researchers spent three years meticulously examining... |
| Russia's Space Woes Stress NASA's Need for Private Spaceships The recent delay of the next manned launch to the International Space Station due to a damaged Russian space capsule highlights NASA's critical need for commercially built vehicles, space policy... |
| Mel B to host Australian 'Dancing with the Stars' Mel B has been confirmed as the new host of the Australian version of 'Dancing with the Stars'. The former Spice Girls singer - who competed in the US version of the ballroom dancing show... |
| API: Three Letters That Change Life, the Universe and Even Detroit Apigee , a company that builds and operates APIs. That’s tech-world speak for the software that lets things like Facebook, Google and Twitter talk to all those applications on your iPhone. ... |
| Mock astronauts wanted for mission to Mars ... in Hawaii Crew training for 'Marswalk' at the simulated martian terrain of the Mars500 experiment. The terrain, about 10 m long and 6 m wide, is covered with reddish sand and is built to resemble the... |
| Google Earth update erases underwater 'Atlantis' Google Earth map that raised rumors of the lost city of Atlantis has gotten a much-needed update, ridding the seafloor of a gridlike pattern that some vigilant users suspected were sunken streets... |
| Samsung Galaxy Note Pre-Order Starts, Releasing on Feb. 19: Can it Bulldoze iPhone 4S's Dominance? Samsung 's "next big thing," the Galaxy Note smartphone or "phablet" (phone+tablet) with a massive 5.3-inch Super AMOLED screen, is now available for pre-orders from... |
| Policymakers with ties to NASA spending await SpaceX launch Follow this company spending will closely watch this spring's SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral to see if the private company is successful in safely docking its spacecraft with the... |
| Report: NOAA lagging on policing reforms A report by the Commerce Department's inspector general has determined that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's law enforcement branch has made many improvements over the... |
| Atoms Architectural keeps growing PARKERSBURG - Atoms Architectural Products continues to grow.The small company that produces louvers, sunshades, grilles and ornamental metals is building its sales and looking to expand into new... |
| Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in... |
| Union of Concerned Scientists / Friends of The Earth: Weapons Plutonium Fuel Test Fails Nuclear Fuel Test Failure Should Trigger Suspension of Weapon-Grade Plutonium Fuel Use, Groups Say Hazardous Fuel Behavior Another Setback For Troubled Energy Department Program, Has Implications... |
| Canadian company is image-maker to the stars From a small office in Mississauga, Ont., entrepreneur Jesse DeCosta has done what many small Canadian business owners might only dream of. He’s cracked one of the toughest, most cut-throat and... |
| Samsung Galaxy S3 and Apple iPhone 5 Defy Motorola Samsung and Apple's next flagship devices would be waterproof. Specifically, iPhone suggested that the two devices will feature a special nanocoating over their chips, protecting the components... |
| Android 4.0.4 OTA Now Available Unofficially on Verizon Galaxy Nexus According to a new report, a Verizon Galaxy Nexus user has received an OTA notification on his smartphone. He has even managed to pull the over-the-air update and has made it available for... |
| NASA says Russian space woes no worry Science News: WASHINGTON, NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space... |
| First Dragon spacecraft to be sent to ISS no earlier than April Last week, at a meeting of ISS programme participants, the U.S. side informed its partners that the launch originally planned for February 7 was postponed for at least two months, a space industry... |
| Samsung Plays Hardball on Galaxy Note [Video] Super Bowl XLVI spot commercial featured British glam rock revival band's popular score - 'The Darkness' 2003 hit, "I Believe in a Thing Called Love". The background score... |
| China Suffers From Lowest Lunar Sales Growth Since 2009: Retail Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese shoppers on their Lunar New Year holiday were less lavish than expected at Hong Kong jewelers, curbed spending on beauty brands and slowed spending at South Korean... |
| Lunar Liquid: More Water than Ever Found on the Surface of the Moon These images produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in the regions that lie... |
| Samsung Assails Israeli-Produced Galaxy Tab Teaser, Insists No Part on TV Promo Israel i intelligence officer remotely triggering the explosion in an Iranian nuclear facility with a Samsung Galaxy Tab. In a statement, Samsung officials stressed that the Israeli commercial was... |
| Samsung Galaxy S3 Launch in April: Will it Have 12MP Powerful Camera? Samsung Galaxy S3, rumored to be the next flagship smartphone from the South Korean electronics giant, is expected to be launched in April according to the latest reports. A big selling point of... |
| NASA Unveils Future Aircraft Designs: Stunning Models | Feb 05, 2012 11:22 PM EDT NASA has unveiled concepts of future, eco-friendly aircraft. The stunningly innovative designs, which NASA calls "greener flying machines for the year 2025",... |
| Venus Williams makes successful return | Tennis Venus Williams' tennis comeback from a health problem was a success, as she teamed with Liezel Huber for a 6-1, 6-2 doubles victory that capped a 5-0 Fed Cup first-round shutout for the United... |
| Our Universe rotates around its 'axis of evil' A team of scientists from the University of Michigan led by Michael Longo, while exploring the direction of rotation of 15 872 spiral galaxies, came to the conclusion that our universe may have been... |
| Samsung Galaxy Note from Super Bowl Ad: All About the Phone with a Pen [VIDEO] Samsung Galaxy Note is best-known for its pen, or stylus, but it alsos has a slew of other top-notch features, including a 5.3-inch, 1280x800... |
| Asteroid Vesta Floats in Space in High Resolution 3-D More 3-D images below The giant Asteroid Vesta literally floats in space in a new high resolution 3-D image of the battered bodies Eastern Hemisphere taken by NASA's Dawn Asteroid Orbiter. ... |
| Venus Williams Helps Finish Fed Cup Shutout of Belarus WORCESTER, Mass. - The doubles match that ended the Fed Cup tie between the United States and Belarus should have been the most irrelevant match of the day. It was the fifth contest in a best-of-five... |
| NASA's big ideas for the future of flight NASA has some pretty lofty goals for the future of commercial aviation, and in working with some of the aircraft industry's biggest players this past year, the space agency is hoping to create... |
| Aliens crave Earth wives in Chevy Volt Super Bowl ad (Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Think Chevy Volt and you might not think "out of this world." It's not enjoyed the best sales... |
| Super Bowl Cities Seen From Space Satellite image of RI and portions of southeastern Massachusetts. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Landsat 7 If you live in or are from the US, you probably know that today is Super Bowl Sunday. Whatever you... |
| Google Earth update erases 'Atlantis' error Just a handful of the many screenshots of Google Earth that supposedly revealed the undersea civilization of Atlantis. The grid shown in most of these images is now erased from the... |
| Rare earth prices 'reflect market' A rare earth mine in Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. China is the world's largest exporter of rare earth minerals, supplying more than 90 percent of the international market, though... |
| Astronomers find massive black holes common in early Universe Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space... |
| Chinese president visits former leaders ahead of Lunar New Year BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders have paid visits to former leaders of the state and the Communist Party of China (CPC) to extend New Year greetings to them... |
| Mainland official extends Lunar New Year greetings to Taiwan compatriots BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs chief extended his festive greetings for the upcoming Spring Festival to Taiwan compatriots on Friday.Wang Yi, director of the... |
| Astronomer Creates Wine from 4 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite An astronomer from Britain has, apparently, created wine from a 4.5 billion year old meteorite! An expatriate, Ian Hutechon has labelled his astronomical-alcoholic creation - Meteorito. The wine was... |
| Scientists puzzled by region outside solar system LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A glimpse beyond our solar system reveals the neighborhood just outside the sun's influence is different and stranger than expected, scientists reported... |
| NASA Recruiting: Over 6,000 People want to be Astronauts NASA is currently recruiting to train astronauts for its 2013 batch. Incidentally, this number (6,372 to be exact) is the largest since 1978, when they received more than 8,000 eager... |
| Over 6,000 Individuals Apply for NASA’s Astronaut Corps Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA’s astronaut corps, which is twice as many as the U.S. space agency typically receives, NASA said in a statement on Sunday. Late last year,... |
