Triple green meteor lights up Siberian skies near Chita (VIDEO)
November 13, 2015 at 01:46 PM
A huge fireball has been spotted in the skies over the Russian city of Chita near the border with China. An unidentified flying object, most probably a meteorite, made three extra bright flashes before burning out, according to eyewitness accounts. Read More »
Snowden Marks 'Historic' Victory, NSA to Curb Phone Spying by Month's End
November 10, 2015 at 03:36 PM
The US National Security Agency later this month will stop its bulk collection of Americans' telephone records and move to a more targeted system, according to a government memo seen by Reuters. Read More »
Hackers Who Targeted CIA Director Turn Attacks on FBI, US Cops
November 10, 2015 at 02:29 PM
The hacktivist group who previously set their sights on CIA Director John Brennan in protest of the Israeli occupation of Palestine have now set their sights set on United States police forces, as well as the FBI. Read More »
Chinese scientists claim they've deciphered Panda language
November 10, 2015 at 02:21 PM
Scientists in a southwestern Chinese panda breeding center have decoded 13 different kinds of vocalizations that giant pandas use to communicate with one another, according to a report by Xinhua. Read More »
Eaten away by ‘vog’: Acid fog eroding rocks on Mars
November 09, 2015 at 03:12 PM
Scientists believe they have figured out why rocks on Mars are eroding. They say an acidic fog created by volcanic eruptions on the red planet is the probable culprit. Read More »
New Pluto image shows hazy crescent
October 30, 2015 at 05:17 PM
NASA has released the latest Pluto image, which shows the dwarf planet’s crescent, adding another stunner to its repertoire of images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in July. Read More »
Rosetta finds primordial oxygen on 67P comet
October 29, 2015 at 11:56 AM
Large quantities of oxygen have been discovered in the gassy halo of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with stunned scientists saying that the “big surprise” challenges theories about the formation of our Solar System. Read More »
Extreme Heat to Reduce Southeast Asia Labor Productivity
October 28, 2015 at 05:11 PM
Southeast Asia could lose 16 percent of current labor capacity due to rising heat stress over the next three decades. Singapore and Malaysia may face the biggest losses in productivity. Read More »
Mysterious artificial space object heading towards Earth
October 27, 2015 at 04:31 PM
A mysterious chunk of space debris will hit Earth off the coast of Sri Lanka on November 13. Scientists have no clear idea what it is, other than that it is likely artificial in origin, and have dubbed the object WT1190F. Read More »
Vaporized & ripped apart: Astronomers reveal how Earth will die
October 23, 2015 at 11:35 AM
A white dwarf star in the Constellation Virgo has been declared a ‘death star’, destroying an orbiting celestial body - something “no human has seen before,” according to NASA. Read More »
