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A 60-year-old man whose lifelong dream was to take flight in a lawn chair using helium-filled balloons did so on Saturday, though his attempt to set a record didn't go quite as planned. “I've been thinking about this forever," Joe Barbera, an enginee
The Internal Revenue Service's screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than has been previously disclosed, the new head of the agency said Monday.
For vegans of the future
It should start showing up on store shelves in a few weeks.
A three-piece robot rock band has taken to the stage in Tokyo, Japan to perform with pop group Amoyamo. The bionic guitarist, drummer and keyboardist were joined by pop group Amoyamo for the performace.
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An Earth-observing NASA satellite has captured images of northern India's devastating floods that have left hundreds of people dead this month.
Chronic marijuana use may cause inflammation in the brain that leads to problems with coordination and learning, a new study in animals suggests.
A new species of "assassin bug" — a type of gutsy predatory insect that neutralizes prey using its thorny front legs and sharp, needlelike mouth — has been discovered deep in a limestone cave in Arizona.
The World Solar Challenge is returning to the Land Down Under this fall, and with new rules, new teams, and new cars, the University of Michigan team is betting big on its latest design, the Generation.
Getting a spacecraft off the ground is hard enough, but sometimes getting it back to Earth again is even harder.
Thirty-two-year old family physician Doug Nunamaker of Wichita, Kan., said after five years of dealing with the red tape of health insurance companies and the high overhead for the staff he hired just to deal with paperwork, he switched to a system o
China has long been home to both some of the world’s tiniest villages and its most congested, polluted examples of urban sprawl. The ultimate goal of the government’s modernization plan is to fully integrate 70 percent of the country’s population, or
The scientists found that during the Hadean and Archean eons – the first of the four principal eons of the Earth's earliest history – the heavy bombardment of meteorites provided reactive phosphorus that when released in water could be incorporated
Last year Chinese researchers published a paper in the journal Cell Research where they found small pieces of rice RNA in the blood and organs of humans who eat rice.1 And this rice RNA wasn’t just sitting there doing nothing. It was binding to re
Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station today (June 24) to begin a six-hour spacewalk to test and upgrade systems on the orbiting lab's exterior.
When Lesley Hazleton was writing a biography of Muhammad, she was struck by something: The night he received the revelation of the Koran, according to early accounts, his first reaction was doubt, awe, even fear.
Can serious-minded fiction play a role in creating a better understanding of critical contemporary social/political issues like 9/11? Is there a body of 9/11-related fiction? This seems to me a subject worthy of editorial inquiry. Thanks to the I
Ernest Hancock reports from Porcfest X. Enjoy the daily updates, pictures of events and attendees, and the radio show daily from 9-Noon EDT live from the media room at Roger's Campground...
We used to honor whistle-blowers as the media fulfilled its mission to be the watchman on the wall of tyranny. Increasingly, these watchmen are finding themselves watched and are often targeted for elimination, or at least they meet a suspicious and
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Are you tired of living under relative tyranny where every email is read, every phone call is listened to and your every movement is tracked and dissident journalists are harassed and even murdered by federal agencies such as the rogue NSA, CIA and I
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It warned Western Hemisphere nations that Snowden "should not be allowed to proceed in any further international travel, other than is necessary to return him to the United States," a State Department official said.
Moody's Investors Service has changed the outlooks for the bank financial strength ratings (BFSRs)/Baseline Credit Assessments of 8 Hong Kong banks to negative from stable, and one bank's BFSR outlook to stable from positive.
Sending probes to Mars and harvesting energy are just two of the many applications of thermoelectric and nanotechnology research conducted by Professor Julio Martinez's group at New Mexico State University.
Every red-blooded American (and legions of others, too) love our national parks.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Monday defended his government’s handling of the case of US whistle-blower Edward Snowden after the US expressed disappointment over the city’s failure to arrest the fugitive intelligence leaker.
For only "pennies a day," any greenhouse owner can produce CO2 to help increase plant yields in their greenhouses.
New business opportunities abound in the state of Colorado, where Amendment 64 to legalize the recreational sale and use of marijuana was recently passed with flying colors by 1.36 million enthusiastic Colorado voters.
As reported by the Associated Press, Edward Snowden managed to evade U.S. authorities and fly to Ecuador where he is apparently being granted political asylum.
