| L.A. Galaxy boss says won't rush Becks back into action L.A. Galaxy boss Bruce Arena has said that he has no plans to rush England football star David Beckham back into... | |
| Ancient bacteria could pave way for new and improved sunscreens Cyanobacteria - organisms that thrived on Earth before there was enough oxygen to block harmful ultraviolet light-could pave way for new and improved sunscreens, according to a new... |
| NASA eyes unprecedented mission to unlock Sun's biggest mysteries NASA is developing an unprecedented mission to study the Sun closer than ever... |
| Chief rabbi slams Stephen Hawking for excluding God's role in universe creation The chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, has lashed out at Stephen Hawking after the astrophysicist claimed in his new book that God had no role to play in the creation of the... |
| 2001 Indian 'red rain' showered earth with 'alien life', claim theorists After nine years of research, panspermia theorists have said that the 'red' rains that occurred in India in July 2001 contained bugs that were unlike anything ever found on the Earth, suggesting that it may be an alien form of... |
| Astronomy workshop for UAE kids during Ramadan More than 6,000 children took part in a month-long workshop on astronomy that was organised in Abu Dhabi to encourage youngsters to learn... |
| NASA Studies Conditions That Make Storms Intensify FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—NASA scientists flew Thursday into Hurricane Earl to gather data about what makes some tropical storms strengthen into destructive hurricanes while most... |
| Wanted For Long Space Missions: Flexible Astronaut, Works Well With Others When it comes to flying in space, the makeup of an astronaut crew can be just as important as the mission itself, and the same goes for a team of six volunteers going through the motions of a... |
| Chinese Satellites Bump During Secret Maneuvers A Chinese Long March 2D rocket carrying the new satellite Shijian ("Practice" in Chinese) blasted off on June 15 at 9:39 p.m. from the Jiuquan space center. Credit: China Aerospace Science and... |
| NASA Hurricane Researchers Eye Earl's Eye Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 09:10 CDT Hurricane Earl, currently a Category Two storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale with maximum sustained winds of 100 knots (115 miles per hour), continues... |
| NASA Sees Depression Nine Become Gaston Then Back To A Depression Posted on: Thursday, 2 September 2010, 18:00 CDT Tropical Depression Nine strengthened yesterday into Tropical Storm Gaston, but today it ran into dry and stable air and weakened back into a... |
| NASA Catches Earl's Heavy Rainfall As It Approaches The US Posted on: Thursday, 2 September 2010, 18:00 CDT Hurricane Earl is still a powerful category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale as it approaches the North Carolina coast today. NASA's... |
| NASA, Newseum Invite Media To Discover And Encounter Comets Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 09:02 CDT NASA will commemorate a quarter-century of comet discoveries and discuss upcoming comet encounters during a symposium at 9 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept.... |
| Astronauts to stump for Robinson Republican congressional candidate Art Robinson has landed two astronauts — one the second man to orbit the earth and the other one of the last men to walk on the moon — to... |
| Labor Day weekend for astronauts: Space toilet cleaning Astronauts aboard the International Space Station won't be throwing any burgers on the grill this Labor Day weekend, but at least they'll get the U.S. holiday off after they clean the space toilet. ... |
| Kids prove they’re MoonBot masters Gaetano, What do you get out of insisting this was all your idea?? Did you put the money up? Did you organize any events or conventions? NO. You did none of the leg work. And if you really think that... |
| If Rajendra Pachauri goes, who on Earth would want to be IPCC chair? | John Vidal the InterAcademy Council (IAC) report into the IPCC's processes earlier this week (which also found Pachauri not guilty of any misconduct), commentators and editorials... |
| Galaxy Tablet May Herald Boon For Vodafone people ) lost exclusivity to sell contracts for the popular phone. Deutsche Telekom would not comment on the report, but Bank of America-Merrill Lynch analyst Emmet Kelly expects Vodafone to secure... |
| Some Ancient Galaxies Had Wild Youth Ancient galaxies may be cosmic senior citizens today, but some have a wild streak in their past, one packed with frenetic star birth, astronomers say. Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space... |
| Veteran Canadian astronaut Hadfield to command space station Colonel Chris Hadfield looks over a model of the International Space Station at the Longueuil headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency in Longueuil near Montreal Thursday, September 2, 2010. It was... |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab Vs. the IPad: Compare for Yourself Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet on Thursday. The Galaxy Tab is a 7-inch slate built to complete with the current tablet king, Apple's thus-far-unchallenged iPad. Sure, there have been a couple... |
| Earth from Space: Giant Iceberg Enters Nares Strait ESA's Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland's Petermann glacier on 4 August 2010. This animation shows that the iceberg, the... |
| Earth from space: Giant iceberg enters Nares Strait ESA's Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland's Petermann glacier on August 4,... |
| Rare Earth Metals Options Strategic Claims in the Red Wine Complex Rare Earth Metals Inc. ("RA" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:RA) is pleased to announce that it has added to its land holdings in the Red Wine/Letitia Lake area of west central Labrador through the... |
| Labor Day Weekend for Astronauts: Space Toilet Cleaning and Exercise Astronauts aboard the International Space Station won't be throwing any burgers on the grill this Labor Day weekend, but at least they'll get the U.S. holiday off — after they clean... |
| Top 10 Summer Sky Objects to See Before Fall With the Summer Triangle passing away to the west, the planet Jupiter comes to dominate the autumn sky in September, adrift in a menagerie of constellations named after sea creatures. Credit: Starry... |
| Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found SOME 16 million years ago, north became south in a matter of years. Such fast flips are impossible, according to models of the Earth's core, but this is now the second time that evidence has been... |
| Hawking's God, Universe claim rejected London, England (CNN) -- Religious leaders in Britain on Friday hit back at claims by leading physicist Stephen Hawking that God had no role in the creation of the... |
| Apple's 27-in. iMac 'the center of my digital universe' Intel processors while retaining the line's already successful aluminum-and glass design. The new iMac comes in two versions: One features an LED-backlit 21.5-in. widescreen LCD with the Intel Core... |
| Latest NASA images: Earl and oil rig ORLANDO -- Some new NASA images of Hurricane Earl and that oil rig fire that broke out yesterday in the Gulf. Here is the TERRA satellite image of... |
| NASA Scientists Study Hurricane Earl's Strength FORT LAUDERDALE | NASA scientists flew Thursday into Hurricane Earl to gather data about what makes some tropical storms strengthen into destructive hurricanes while most... |
| Bristol has 'em bristling on 'Dancing with the Stars' BILL ZWECKER Sun-Times Columnist Things keep getting interesting behind the scenes on ''Dancing With the Stars.'' A show insider says, ''Move over, Michael Bolton! Bristol Palin is now out-diva-ing... |
| Samsung unveils iPad competitor 'Galaxy Tab' Galaxy series , the Galaxy Tab Android tablet made its very first appearance today at IFA in Berlin. The Tab will initially launch in Europe in mid-September and makes its way to the U.S. and Asia in... |
| Stephen Hawking: There's no God behind universe The cosmologist and theoretical physicist has challenged traditional religious beliefs in his new book, The Grand Design.Co-authored by US physicist Leonard Mlodinow, it says a new series of theories... |
| Husted: Big Head and bed head for astronauts? (AP, Matt Rourke) How would you like to wake up to Big Head Todd & the Monsters? That could happen with NASA. The Colorado band wrote the song "Blue Sky" as a tribute to the space-shuttle... |
| Lunar geography has standard Chinese translation for first time To meet the needs of the lunar exploration and scientific research, and to achieve the standardization of lunar geographical names, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China... |
| India To Build World's Largest Solar Telescope Currently, the world's largest solar telescope is the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope, with a diameter of 1.6 metres in Kitt Peak National Observatory at Arizona in the... |
| Solar Probe Plus To Plunge Directly Into Sun's Atmosphere Solar Probe+ will likely discover new mysteries, too, in a realm that no other spacecraft has dared enter. At closest approach, Solar Probe+ will be 7 million km or 9 solar radii from the sun. There,... |
| Canadian to command space station in 2013 Astronaut Chris Hadfield in 2013 will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station (ISS), the Canadian Space Agency announced Thursday. Hadfield, 51, will rocket on his third... |
| Three More GLONASS Satellites Put Into Orbit Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket put three GLONASS satellites into orbit on Thursday, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said. The Proton-M rocket blasted off from the Baikonur space center in... |
| ISRO To Conduct Key Test For GSLV Mk III Rocket Next Week After a failed test six months ago, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be making a fresh attempt next week to conduct long-duration static test of a crucial liquid core stage for a new... |
| Russian Cosmonauts Long For Hot Showers On ISS A team of Russian cosmonauts working at the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) are unhappy about the absence of hot showers onboard, a Russian cosmonaut said on Thursday. The... |
| God did not create Universe: Hawking God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published Thursday from a new... |
| Spitzer Finds A Flavorful Mix Of Asteroids This image, taken by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission in 2000, shows a close-up view of Eros, an asteroid with an orbit that takes it somewhat close to Earth. NASA's Spitzer Space... |
