Jul 14 2008
FURIOUS football fans yesterday blasted plans to sell Newcastle United to the family of Osama Bin Laden.
Jul 13 2008
LSU scientist Huiming Bao, along with colleagues from UCLA and China, recently discovered some of the first atmospheric evidence in support of the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis. This theory suggests that Earth was entirely covered by ice during the...
Jul 11 2008
Astronomers have known for years that something seems to be pulling our Milky Way and tens of thousands of other galaxies toward itself at a breakneck 22 million kilometers (14 million miles) per hour.
Jul 8 2008
Toxic air, algae blooms, Tibetan uprisings—welcome to the 2008 Summer Olympics! As the Aug. 8 opening ceremony inches closer, the list of potential disasters gets longer every day. Below, we’ve collected all of the crises and glitches that might...
Jul 6 2008
We\’ve all seen the length to which China has gone in order to burnish its environmental credentials ahead of the Olympics.
Jul 3 2008
Siti Aishah, a 24-year-old Cambodian, married state assemblyman Wan Ismail Wan Jusoh in Kuala Lumpur in 2003, but the court now deemed her marriage certificate invalid on grounds of possible fraud, Mohamad Sibri said.
Jul 1 2008
More than 1,300 clergy, including 11 serving bishops, have written to the archbishops of Canterbury and York to say that they will defect from the Church of England if women are consecrated bishops.
Jun 28 2008
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) camera will map 300 million galaxies using the Blanco 4-meter telescope - a large telescope with new advanced optics at Chile’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
Jun 23 2008
n the past 17 years, no vehicle in America outsold the Ford F-150 on a monthly or yearly basis—not once. In May of this year, however, Honda moved more Civics and Accords and Toyota more Corollas and Camrys than Ford moved of its bestseller.
Jun 22 2008
Think Blackwater\’s days are numbered? Think again. Jeremy Scahill explains why its slaughter of Iraqis has not stopped the notorious mercenary firm.