Earth’s Twin Discovered Far Beyond The Solar System
A NASA team has found a small planet best positioned to have liquid water but has yet to determine whether it is solid. The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists have said. The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more More...
You’re Screwed: Using iPhone, Gmail, BlackBerry
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that governments worldwide have been using electronic devices, such as smart-phones and computers, to monitor what people are saying, where they are going and what they are More...
iExplode: Beware exploding Apples
Apple’s iPhone might literally be the hottest touchscreen on the market today, as two sizzling smartphones have reportedly gone up in smoke less than a week apart. When Ayla Mota plugged in his iPhone 4 in More...
Warning for Facebook Users: Hitting ‘like’ may land you in jail
Fifteen years behind bars is the price you could pay for “liking” some Facebook pages in Thailand. Outrageous? Unfortunately, it is just a part of a global trend as Big Brother’s hand is increasingly extended More...
NASA’s Mars Rover Launches Successfully
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory lifted off from the launch pad at 10:02 a.m. EST today. The one-ton Mini Cooper-sized rover, which is the largest machine NASA can currently put down on the Martian surface, will More...
NASA launch Curiosity Rover For Life on Mars
NASA will launch a unique car-sized Curiosity rover on Saturday on a 2-year mission to Mars to search for traces of life on the red planet, NASA said on its web site. The Mars Science Laboratory is the largest More...
American Radar to Blame for Fobos Failure
Radiation from American satellites was the cause of Russia’s failure to get Fobos-Grunt to Mars, former head of army of missile attack prevention Lt-General Nikolai Rodionov told Interfax. “The trajectory of More...
Data beamed from Russia Mars probe ‘ Analyzed’
Russian specialists have deciphered telemetry data received from a wayward Mars probe, but have yet to find out the cause of its erratic behavior, a space industry source said on Thursday. “Some data” on the More...
Man-made super-flu could kill half humanity
A virus with the potential to kill up to half the world’s population has been made in a lab. Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe, and whether the research should More...
DARPA: Eliminate Antibiotics, Then All Pathogens
Last year, federal officials warned that Americans were on the verge of “a post-antibiotic era.” And that’s exactly what the Pentagon’s far-out research agency is after. As long as they’ve got a replacement More...