Ocean Expedition Sets Sail to Probe Glacier Changes
• livescience.comMountain glaciers are like giant sandpaper blocks, scouring their valley homes as they advance and retreat.
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Mountain glaciers are like giant sandpaper blocks, scouring their valley homes as they advance and retreat.
As the nation's lawmakers continue to bore through the details of the upcoming federal farm bill revision, a number of forward-thinking members of Congress are simultaneously pushing for the antiquated and indefensible prohibition on hemp farming to
News about the GMO contamination of U.S. wheat crops seems to be spreading faster than the GMOs themselves.
What is it like to raise a child who's different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents
It's Monday, and time for a new blog post about random thoughts like settling and such.
We're proud to announce the formation of a new ebook and print book publishing company called Walking Liberty Publishing. It's a new name with old faces. You already know who's in it, we're all DPers.
Late last night the offices of Los Angeles-based independent game studio Robotoki were stormed by the Los Angeles Police Department after a curious designer pressed the building's "panic" button, studio founder Robert Bowling told Polygon.
An Oxford University researcher and author specializing in neuroscience has suggested that one day religious fundamentalism may be treated as a curable mental illness.
Science fiction may well become reality with the development of a real life Iron Man suit that would allow astronauts or extreme thrill seekers to space dive from up to 62 miles (100 km) above the Earth‘s surface at the very edge of space, and safely
Friendly Gizmag readers, if Part One of our Realtouch review left you feeling a little squeamish, it's probably best to click your way right back out of this page, because Part Two takes us into even murkier waters.
The Raspberry Pi is a Linux computer that costs just $35, making it a perfect computer for the electronics hobbyist or tinkerers.
The flagship of the Tesla Model S range, the Model S Performance, comes with a power rating of 301 kilowatts (416 horsepower) as well as an 85 kWh battery pack that the EPA says is good for about 265 miles of driving range.
The sad, painful trading in Japan continues, as the new week begins. In early trading, the Nikkei is down 2.3%.
Gold has been getting poleaxed in recent months, though it remains just below $1400/oz.
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President Barack Obama will soon sign an international arms trade treaty previously rejected by the United States Senate.
The consensus formed in the early 1990s and has strengthened since, the team discovered. "Our finding of near unanimous agreement among scientists is in stark contrast to public perception, with only half of the general public thinking scientists ag
Good governance and the role it plays in fighting poverty is complex. A finance minister from a resource rich but otherwise poor country told me recently that the fuel subsidies in that country, designed to protect the most vulnerable from high price
For centuries, scholars understood little about Maya script beyond its elegant astronomical calculations and calendar.The Maya had dominated much of Central America and southern Mexico for 1,000 years before their civilisation collapsed about 600 yea
The question of how people can live and work together well on a mission to Mars may turn out to be one of the biggest challenges of deep-space exploration.
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Angela Keaton, Mike Shipley and John Bechtol come on the show to help promote the Freedom Torch Parade for Bradley Manning - Starchild weighs in on the Freedom Torch Parade - Alma Sommer (AgoristMarketplace.com and Jackalope Freedom Festival) provide
On May 31, 1790, George Washington signed the first copyright law, Copyright Act of 1790, which extended copyright protection to “the author and authors of any map, chart, book or books ” who were citizens or residents of the United States “for the t
Three months ago, Ruan Pethiyagoda didn’t even call himself a computer programmer. But now he’s knee-deep in the Hack Reactor.
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A U.S. attorney in Tennessee is reportedly vowing to use federal civil rights statutes to clamp down on offensive and inflammatory speech about Islam.
A federal appeals court unanimously upheld an Obama administration requirement that dealers in southwestern border states report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles.
The younger brother of one of the men accused of murdering Drummer Lee Rigby was paid thousands of pounds by MI6 as part of spying operations in the Middle East. He was also asked to help ‘turn’ his brother, Michael, to work for MI5,
Egypt's highest court ruled the nation's interim parliament was illegally elected, though it stopped short of dissolving the chamber immediately, in a decision likely to fuel the tensions between the ruling Islamists and the judiciary.
A Wyoming high school student who built a nuclear reactor in his dad's garage was disqualified from the International Science and Engineering Fair this month on a technicality. His crime: competing in too many science fairs.