Antarctic ozone hole ‘creating rainfall in subtropical region’
The Independent The ozone hole is causing a moisturising trend over sub-tropical regions, such as Lord Howe island in eastern Australia The ozone “hole” over Antarctica could be increasing the amount of rainfall as far away as the subtropical regions of the southern hemisphere, according to a study that highlights the global nature of climate [...]
Read More →Gigantic Swiss Atom Smasher Breaks World Record
Live Science The world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has set a new world record for colliding two beams of more particles together than ever before. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN physics lab in Geneva, Switzerland, has been operating since 2009, slowly ramping up its power levels and the intensity [...]
Read More →Feds to Supreme Court: Allow Warrantless GPS Monitoring
Wired The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move. The Justice Department, saying “a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his movements (.pdf) from one place to another,” is demanding the justices undo [...]
Read More →New Hubble Picture: A Beautiful Collision of Galaxies
io9 This dramatic look at Arp 273 shows the very photogenic group of interacting galaxies that glow bright with intense star formation, perhaps triggered by a little carousing the two galaxies are doing with each other as they approach and interact. Arp 273 lies in the constellation Andromeda and is roughly 300 million light-years away [...]
Read More →Evacuation zone widened beyond 20 km from Fukushima nuclear plant
Kyodo A police officer (R) explains to a driver about a no-entry zone set around the crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Station The government on Friday added some towns outside a 20-kilometer radius of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the list of areas covered by its evacuation directive due to concerns over high [...]
Read More →Charles Manson Calls ‘Foolish’ Obama a ‘Slave to Wall Street,’ Warning That the Environment Is in Peril (w/Video)
ABC News Charles Manson appears at a parole hearing, April 21, 1992, in San Quentin, Calif. Manson recently broke a 20-year silence, giving an interview to Spain’s Vanity Fair magazine. Charles Manson has broken two decades of silence, giving a telephone interview to Spain’s Vanity Fair magazine in which the convicted killer and cult leader [...]
Read More →Arnie will be back …as EU’s president
The Sun Movie hero Arnold Schwarzenegger may launch a bid to become president of the EU, friends revealed yesterday. The Terminator star turned politician, who stepped down as Governor of California in January, is talking to aides about landing the top job. They are telling Austrian-born Arnie, 63, to return to Europe to give [...]
Read More →Drones can be used by Nato forces in Libya, says Obama
Guardian Precision targeting provided by unmanned drones has becomea favoured strike weapon in Afghanistan, and could help Nato pinpoint Gaddafi forces in Libya. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features The White House has approved the use of missile-armed Predator drones to help Nato target Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in Libya. Coalition commanders have been privately urging the Americans [...]
Read More →Guinness Book record pushes Belgium into abyss
Pravda Yesterday, a dubious political achievement entered the Guinness Book of World Records. The owner of the new record is prosperous Belgium that has been living without a government for 311 days. The reason for that is the inability of the politicians representing the two ethnic regions of the country – Flanders and Wallonia – [...]
Read More →-
Subscribe
Get news updates by email. Enter your email address below to subscribe: Article Submission
Recent Articles
SET YOU FREE NEWS APP
