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Successfully generated electricity from heat by trapping organic molecules between metal nanoparticles, a finding that could yield cheap refrigerators, not to mention new, more efficient energy sources in general.
Beneath fast-moving sections of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the continent's own natural plumbing system fills and empties a network of previously unknown subsurface lakes with surprising speed. The movement of water through the lakes might infl
(A look into the future using some facts about the world around you that you should know - Definately worth your time to watch this short video)
CONNECTING THE DOTS
An explosion on a train headed for Pakistan set off a fire that swept through 2 cars and killed at least 66 people in an attack that a government minister said was aimed at undermining the peace process between India and Pakistan.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, looking to improve his standing with the party's conservative voters, said the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.
Researchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers—and someday, even limbs—with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel. There's the guy who sliced off a fingertip but grew it back, after he treated the wound with an e
A star found spinning more than a thousand times every second is thought to be the fastest rotating star known. The neutron star is a burned out corpse that's collapsed into an incredible density rivaled only by black holes. It packs the mass
Kirk Yeager makes bombs from the stuff found under kitchen sinks. He does it to help the FBI defend against what officials say is the next frontier for terrorists in the United States. [FEAR]
Fascist Nation
Twelve-year-old Mark Hoffman disrespects authority, cuts class at every opportunity, and suspects he knows better than nearly every adult in Walton, NY. He is, after all, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the community.
Fascist Nation
Larry Reed spoke with great passion about an upcoming movie, that he could not rate highly enough in his encouragement to go see it again and again, and tell all your friends. We seem to get one freedom movie a year as balance to all the others.
The presidents of Iran and Syria vowed alliance against what they called US and Israeli conspiracies against the Islamic world. Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying that the Islamic world in general and Iran and Syria in particular
The mystery of why the Himalaya mountains and the Tibetan plateau are the highest in the world has at last been answered, with the discovery of a gigantic chunk of rock slowly sinking towards the centre of the Earth.
Mexico's economy slowed in the last three months of 2006, and that could have consequences in the United States: Tough times in Mexico typically fuel immigration north of the border.
For one of the world's most reclusive countries, the computers on shabby desks with cheap plastic chairs represent a small crack in two decades of isolation.
Moscow warns against independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and will only support a resolution that meets the interests of both Kosovo and Serbia, a Russian Balkans envoy said.
Philip Perry, general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget was brusque and to the point. The Bush administration was not going to support granting regulatory authority over chemical security to the EPA. “If you send up this legislation,” h
Last month out of 3,000 IEDs directed at occupation troops, only 2.5% were EFPs. But a further statistic explains why these particular weapons are so feared by soldiers: Despite the relatively tiny number deployed, they accounted for 15% of casualti
The more US forces come into conflict with the Shi’ite militias in Baghdad, the more they run the risk the guns they provide to the new Iraqi army and police will be turned on them, in “random incidents” and eventually a general uprising.
The Dept. of Justice has implemented a secretive new prison program segregating "high-security-risk" Muslim and Middle Eastern prisoners and tightly restricting their communications with the outside world in violation of federal law.
Karl Rove, then White House deputy chief of staff for President Bush, received a copy of the secret Iranian proposal for negotiations with the US from Republican Congressman Bob Ney in early May 2003, according to an Iranian-American scholar who was
Using computerized biometric technology, they ran a mug shot from the “America’s Most Wanted,” the Fox Network television show, against the state’s database of 9 million digital driver’s license photographs. They found a match.
Mr. Ani was brought to a table for one last step. He was asked to place a check mark next to the sentence that best described how he had been treated: “I didn’t go through any abuse during detention,” read the first option, in Arabic. “I have gone
By law, the $100,000 benefit goes first to a spouse or a child. So 9-year-old Kayla Jaenke collects the $100,000 -- plus $400,000 in life insurance -- after she turns 18, leaving Susan Jaenke to ask, "What about the next 9 years?" In som
5 1/2 years of sustained combat have transformed the venerable 113-acre institution into something else entirely -- a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients. Almost 700 of them -- the majority soldiers, with some Marine
New evidence shows that the human brain can manufacture fresh brain cells, researchers said in a study that may lead to better ways to treat brain damage and disease.
Dried-up bits of food lurking on dinnerware make diners cringe, but they are like gold for an archaeo-botanist. Hot on a new trail of microscopic crumbs revealed that domesticated chili peppers originated in the Americas earlier than previously thoug
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who stripped embattled Rep. William Jefferson of his seat on a powerful tax committee last year, has decided to put him on the Homeland Security panel, infuriating some Republicans who charge he is a security risk.
House Republicans sought to deflect blame off the Bush administration for not acting earlier to fix faulty oil drilling contracts that could cost the government billions in lost royalty fees, saying the Clinton administration was at fault for issuing
Worries about the dark side of free trade are surfacing in the US in ways that could affect the course of globalization worldwide. Don't expect an outright retreat from global commerce just yet, but it is becoming more likely that the US will act
