(Phys.org) —NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions of galaxies across 10 billion ...
Astronomy
Jun 29, 2013
0
0
Legislators in Grenada have approved a bill that makes it a crime to offend people through websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Internet
Jun 29, 2013
1
0
U.S. safety regulators are investigating some Honda Odyssey minivans because they can brake without the driver pressing the pedal.
Engineering
Jun 29, 2013
1
0
Indonesia said Saturday that fires across giant rainforests which caused Southeast Asia's worst air pollution crisis in years had been greatly reduced and were coming under control.
Environment
Jun 29, 2013
0
0
In parts of California's Sierra Nevada, marshy meadows are going dry, wildflowers are blooming earlier and glaciers are melting into ice fields.
Environment
Jun 29, 2013
126
0
Facebook is pulling ads from pages that contain violence or sexual content. The social network said that on Monday, it will expand its definition of pages and groups that are too controversial to carry advertisements.
Internet
Jun 29, 2013
1
0
On a recent rainy Sunday morning in a Mexico City neighborhood, people lined up under their umbrellas with bags of empty milk cartons, plastic bottles and cardboard at their feet.
Environment
Jun 29, 2013
1
0
Polish and Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a royal burial chamber with 60 mummies and some 1,200 gold, silver and ceramic objects from over 1,000 years ago in Peru.
Archaeology
Jun 29, 2013
3
2
Margherita Hack, an astrophysicist who explained her research on the stars in plain language for the public and who championed civil rights in her native Italy, died on Saturday in the Adriatic Sea town of Trieste, where ...
Space Exploration
Jun 29, 2013
0
0
(Phys.org) —Scientists have determined that an asteroid that burned up over Russia in February resulted in a shock wave so powerful that it traveled twice around the globe. They made that determination by means of a system ...
