WikiLeaks’ 16th minute
In late October, a deflated Julian Assange called a press conference in London to announce he may have to mothball WikiLeaks. The reason, he said, was money. Visa, MasterCard, Western Union and Paypal were...
Category: Storm Chasers
Dark matter galaxy hints seen 10bn light-years away
Astronomers have spotted a “dwarf” galaxy some 10 billion light-years away which may be made mostly of the mysterious material called dark matter. The dwarf was found using a technique called gravitational lensing. It...
VA AG Fears DC Law May Relocate Rat ‘Families’ to Virginia
(CNSNews.com) — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says he is worried that a new District of Columbia law that governs how pest control operators must handle rats may result in entire rodent “families” being...
La Nina ‘linked’ to flu pandemics
La Nina events may make flu pandemics more likely, research suggests. US-based scientists found that the last four pandemics all occurred after La Nina events, which bring cool waters to the surface of the...
Cancer patient receives stem cell-made windpipe, first in U.S.
(CBS) In only the second operation of its kind, a Baltimore man has received an artificial windpipe made from stem cells to replace one destroyed by cancer. Christopher Lyles, 30, had tracheal cancer that...
Galapagos researchers find ‘extinct’ tortoises are still alive
Scientists have located members of a giant Galapagos tortoise species thought to have gone extinct in the 1840s, USA Today reports. Researchers who tested the DNA of 1,600 tortoises on the Galapagos island of...
India reports new strain of ‘totally drug-resistant tuberculosis’
Indian doctors have reported the country’s first cases of “totally drug-resistant tuberculosis,” a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. It’s not the first time highly resistant cases like this have...
London 2012: Mass gathering risks disease spreading
Mass gatherings, such as the London 2012 Olympics, can be a hotbed of diseases from across the world, public health experts have warned. They say it can have consequences for the host nation and...
In the future, can you remain anonymous?
(multimedia) Face recognition and detection technology is becoming cheaper, faster, and much more commonplace, raising the question of whether people will be able to remain anonymous in the near future. Digital signs and sensors...
Is Spider-Man Body Armor Finally Within Reach?
After decades of trying, scientists may have finally found a way to make body armor out of spider silk. Aside from being very cool, this would mean ultra-lightweight, super-strong, flexible body armor that would...
