Headline News
- Cosmic Alignment Will Not Cause Doomsday
- Texas Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday is Memorial Day Weekend
- Annular Solar Eclipse on May 20-21, 2012
- Pictures of Lovable Giant Dogs
- For Sale: Amphibious Sports Car Can Top 125mph on Land and 60mph on the High Seas
- Kusunda Language About to Die Out with Last Living Person Who Knows Language
Animals & Nature
- Pictures of Lovable Giant Dogs
Who's the master in this relationship then? With some standing nearly 6ft tall, you might [...More...]
- Peru says 5,000 birds, nearly 900 dolphins dead
The Peruvian government said Wednesday that 5,000 birds, mostly pelicans, and nearly 900 dolphins [...More...]
- 40 Monkeys Challenged To Destroy Hyundai i30
How do you design a car to be child-destructive proof? You let a bunch [...More...]
- Hero Pit Bull Saves Owner From Being Hit By Train
Lilly the pit bull saved her owner after she fell unconscious in front of [...More...]
Business
- Texas Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday is Memorial Day Weekend
During Memorial Day weekend, Texas shoppers (and out-of-state residents shopping in Texas) will get [...More...]
- For Sale: Amphibious Sports Car Can Top 125mph on Land and 60mph on the High Seas
A car enthusiast has completed his six-year project to turn his dream sports car into [...More...]
- Sport’s Bra That Can Tell Your Doctor If You’re Having a Heart Attack
Scientists have created an 'e-bra' that could help doctors monitor sick female patients anywhere [...More...]
- 18 Month Old Ordered Off JetBlue Flight in Florida Because Her Name is on the No-Fly List
A family said they have been left 'humiliated' after they were ordered off a [...More...]
Disasters
- Cosmic Alignment Will Not Cause Doomsday
Thick dust clouds block our night-time view of the Milky Way, creating what is [...More...]
- 2012 not end of world for Mayans after all
Mayan wall writings in Guatemala include calendars suggesting the culture was not convinced the [...More...]
- Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility
Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space [...More...]
- Supernova Not Likely to Happen in 2012
Supernova 1987A was the closest exploding star seen in modern times. It occurred in [...More...]
Disease
- Plague Confirmed in Mountainous Areas of California
San Diego County health officials announced on May 3rd that a ground squirrel found in [...More...]
- Alabama McDonald’s Customers Possibly Exposed to Hepatitis A
Customers who ate at a McDonald's in Northport, AL between February 28 and March [...More...]
- Smartphones can help track diseases
Smartphones can improve disease surveillance in the developing world with more accurate, faster, cheaper gathering [...More...]
- Animal diseases increasingly plague the oceans
When dead sea mammals started washing ashore on Canada's west coast in greater numbers, marine [...More...]
Earth Watch
- Cosmic Alignment Will Not Cause Doomsday
Thick dust clouds block our night-time view of the Milky Way, creating what is [...More...]
- Annular Solar Eclipse on May 20-21, 2012
On Sunday, May 20th, the sun is going to turn into a ring of fire [...More...]
- Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility
Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space [...More...]
- Supernova Not Likely to Happen in 2012
Supernova 1987A was the closest exploding star seen in modern times. It occurred in [...More...]
Environmental
- Canadians Annoyed by ‘Hum’ Coming from the U.S. Are Calling on Officials for Answers
Last month, Bob Dechert, a senior aide to Canada's foreign minister, was dispatched to [...More...]
- A new theory on the formation of the oldest continents
The earth’s structure can be compared to an orange: its crust is the peel supported by the earth’s heavy mantle. That peel is made up of a continental crust 30 to 40 kilometers thick. It is much lighter than the thinner oceanic crust and protrudes from the earth’s mantle because of its lower density, like an iceberg in the sea.
- Study supports theory of extraterrestrial impact
A 16-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has identified a nearly 13,000-year-old layer of thin, dark sediment buried in the floor of Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico.
- Wildfires kill 339,000 people per year: study
Wildfires, peat fires and controlled burns on farming lands kill 339,000 people worldwide each year, said a study released on Saturday that is the first to estimate a death toll for landscape fires. Most of those deaths are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 157,000 people die as a result of being exposed to such fires annually, with southeast Asia ranking second with 110,000 deaths.
Government
- Texas Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday is Memorial Day Weekend
During Memorial Day weekend, Texas shoppers (and out-of-state residents shopping in Texas) will get [...More...]
- Canadians Annoyed by ‘Hum’ Coming from the U.S. Are Calling on Officials for Answers
Last month, Bob Dechert, a senior aide to Canada's foreign minister, was dispatched to [...More...]
- Seattle Lawyers Claims U.S. Sent Him On Time Travels
Since 2004, Seattle attorney Andrew Basiago has publicly claimed that from the time he was [...More...]
- Okay, We’ll Change Our F*****g Name!
Officials in a F*****g Austria are being forced to change the town's name due [...More...]
Nuclear
- Blast at Russian Power Plant Stops Motorist in Their Tracks
An accident at a power station in Russia lights up the sky above a busy [...More...]
- Cold Snap Forces Germany to Restart Nuclear Reactors
Due to the Arctic cold front, Germany has been forced to bring several reactors [...More...]
- Nuclear Worker at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in California Fell Into a Reactor Pool
A worker at a nuclear power plant fell into a reactor pool as he [...More...]
- San Onofre, CA Nuclear Plant Closed After Radiation Leak
A small quantity of radioactive gas leaked inside one of the buildings at San [...More...]
People
- Texas Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday is Memorial Day Weekend
During Memorial Day weekend, Texas shoppers (and out-of-state residents shopping in Texas) will get [...More...]
- For Sale: Amphibious Sports Car Can Top 125mph on Land and 60mph on the High Seas
A car enthusiast has completed his six-year project to turn his dream sports car into [...More...]
- Kusunda Language About to Die Out with Last Living Person Who Knows Language
A complicated language could die out because only one elderly woman can speak it. [...More...]
- Incredible Moment 4-Year-Old Tumbles Out of Car – Dad Jumps From Moving Vehicle to Save Her
Incredible footage has emerged of a driver leaping from his moving car to rescue his [...More...]
Solar Activity
- Annular Solar Eclipse on May 20-21, 2012
On Sunday, May 20th, the sun is going to turn into a ring of fire [...More...]
- Meteorites From Big Fireball Spark Space Age ‘Gold Rush’
A fragment from the fireball that exploded over California and Nevada on April 22, [...More...]
- Soviet Weather Satellite Falls in Antarctica
Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday [...More...]
- Close-shave asteroid set to return next year
An asteroid spotted by amateur astronomers only after it had skimmed the Earth will come even closer next February, but without posing a threat, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday.
Strange
- Weird western weather has snow in Vancouver while Winnipeggers hitting the links
Mother Nature has opened her bag of tricks in Western Canada with snow in Vancouver [...More...]
- Pole-dancing robots wow world’s biggest high-tech fair
Of all the weird and wacky futuristic gadgets and inventions at this year’s CeBIT, the world’s biggest high-tech fair, few have turned heads like a pair of pole-dancing robots. The sleek, white, life-sized humanoids, with camera-shaped lights as heads, gyrate suggestively to the music, provided by a third “DJ” robot, with a megaphone for a head, who bops around the stage in time to the beat.
- Huge 38KKK Breast Saved Model in Horrific Crash
A 32-year-old model who held the record for the world's largest implants has walked [...More...]
- Oklahoma Bill Outlaws Use of Fetuses in Food Industry
A bill introduced in the Oklahoma Legislature has some people scratching their heads because [...More...]
Unexplained
- Seattle Lawyers Claims U.S. Sent Him On Time Travels
Since 2004, Seattle attorney Andrew Basiago has publicly claimed that from the time he was [...More...]
- Bournemouth Resident Mystified by ‘Blue Sphere Shower’
A man in Dorset, England has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden.
- Shipwreck Hunters Stumble Across Mysterious Find
Deep down on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, Swedish treasure hunters think they [...More...]





































