Astronomers are peeking deep into space trying to determine whether a particular “solid mass” found in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter can be classified as an asteroid or a planet.

We’ve always thought that technology would help us get things done much easier. But a simple spelling checker proves this otherwise, according to Travis Mayfield.

A trove of 70 lead codices that appear to be 2000 years old, which may include key clues to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus has been found.

An international team of researchers presented data on how beaked whales respond to naval sonar exercises. Their results suggest that sonar indeed affects the behavior and movement of whales.

Recipe for a rainbow: Add bright sunlight to raindrops and voila!–a beautiful band of multi-colors arcs across the sky. But what if it’s night time?

Did you know sunspots can make noise that sounds like the sea’s surf? Perhaps what the movie City of Angels “suggested” that there’s music during sunrise was right after all.

An elite group of scientists is heading to one of the coldest places on Earth — the Arctic Circle, to carry out vital research on global warming.

Climate change in the Arctic could change the balance of power between humans, animals and the germs or pathogens that make them both sick.

For weeks, the nation’s attention has been drawn to the storm in Madison over the Wisconsin Governor’s proposal to limit the power of government unions. Yet 500 miles to the southeast, in Columbus, Ohio, Gov. John Kasich is on the verge of passing a more extensive reform.

So we are going to take “all necessary measures” to protect the civilians of Libya, are we? Pity we didn’t think of that 42 years ago.

Until last week, Utah had 24 state symbols, from tree (the blue spruce) to insect (the honeybee) to even cooking pot (the Dutch oven). Here comes another: an M1911 hand gun.

A Western reporter, describing the devastation of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped there, gave a stern warning to the world at that time, which until now remains all too relevant.

Despite living nearly 100 years in the country and serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII, a war veteran was recently discovered he’s still not considered a U.S. citizen.

A new NASA analysis claimed that the massive earthquake that struck Japan earlier this month was so powerful that it accelerated the Earth’s rotation speed, shortening the length of the day by 1.8 microseconds.

A newly found trove of 56 stone tools north of Austin confirms the makers of the “Clovis point” weren’t the first Americans.

Here’s a theory concocted by bright minds from Harvard and MIT that would make all humans of Martian-descent.

Scientists in Iran claim they have made a flying saucer but have not provided any evidence.

Satellite Weather images over Europe have detected an enormous unidentified object that is larger than Belgium!

Worried residents filled the Westwood High School auditorium to air their concern and opposition against erecting a cell tower at Temple Beth David.

“This tower is clearly of no benefit to us and furthermore will place our physical and mental well being in danger,” said one Princeton Street resident.

If you’re trying to figure out how to diminish whatever radiation might be generated by your cell, this may be your safety guide.

The most conclusive finding yet on the link between cellphones and cancer were presented in an overview of the studies by Indian scientists on long-term mobile phone use.

Mary Ann Roser relates that her friend who recently died of brain cancer was a frequent cellphone user, and how her cancer was in the temporal lobe, the area near where most people hold a cell phone while talking.

A unique image, for the first time, has mapped organic compounds that are still surviving in a 50-million-year-old sample of reptile skin.

University of Michigan researchers developed a better nanopore that could advance understanding of a class of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s, by mimicking the structure of the silk moth’s antenna.

A geologist from Tel Aviv University and his team are examining coral reefs and submarine canyons to detect earthquake fault zones.

A new tool from Tel Aviv University may be able to learn from earthquakes of the ancient past to better predict earthquakes of the future.

Scientists have revealed that a new plant species is providing an insight into how evolution works and could help improve crop plants.

Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez believes it’s not far fetched that there’s life on Mars. Unfortunately, he said, capitalism ended whatever life there was with its arrival in the planet.

The true nature of the UFO phenomena, long kept from the public for over half a century, has already been determined by a secret US intelligence agency, so secret that it does not even dare to say its name.

It isn’t often you hear about entire religious groups seriously interested in unidentified flying objects. But UFOs are what the Nation of Islam, led by the controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan, considers among its core beliefs.

A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers. In the UK, Wales has the highest proportion of religiously “non-affiliated”.

God, also known as Yahweh, had a wife, according to a British theologian.

No doubt Sammy Hagar, a former lead singer for Van Halen, has enjoyed a lot of far out experiences in life, but on Monday, the rocker told perhaps his farthest out tale to MTV. He was abducted by aliens.

Internet trolls are those who say something to grab other’s attention. A mystery woman bugged other trolls like her on the internet when she said the quake was God’s wake up call for atheists and that President Barack Obama was the “anti-Christ.”

Do recent reports of mystery lizards herald the return of the legendary tatzelwurm or the clawed serpent to its traditional alpine haunts?

A task force commissioned to determine whether or not the city of Fairbanks, Alaska should end water fluoridation has made its recommendation: END fluoridation.

An increasing number of health experts in developing nations are warning against exposure to electro-magnetic fields.

Can’t imagine life without a cell phone? Maybe you should, life can be good without one.

The Chinese dictatorship now automatically cuts off phone calls if the conversation includes words it doesn’t like such as “protest”.

Wild, wet weather brought an unexpected sight to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach last Friday: a twister on water.

A woman and her grandson were found alive at their quake-wrecked home. The rescue offered Japan an uplifting piece of news in the middle of this terrible crisis they are facing.

A new research has underlined the critical importance of western Arctic Alaska’s Teshekpuk Lake region to tens of thousands of birds.

NASA researchers and university partners are in Greenland to continue what’s billed as the largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice ever flown.

The US has 104 aging nuclear power plants and many of them pose grave risks and Obama wants to greatly increase the threat.

The situation in Mexico is not at all what American media portrays it as.

The show-trial of CIA terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is a farce at best but a few bits of interesting information may still emerge.

In the last few years, the frequency of major earthquakes (over 6.0) increased to 20, 17, 21, 25, and in just the first 3 months of this year we already have had 7 large earthquakes.

An Indonesian man says he has escaped both the 2004 tsunami in Aceh and last week’s Japan tsunami.

Bursts of intense global warming that have lasted tens of thousands of years have taken place more frequently throughout Earth’s history than previously believe.

A new study recently published in IBIS outlines a new approach to understanding how birds see the world and why they find pylons and turbines so hard to avoid.

“Blood money” was paid to the families of the two Pakistanis killed by an American CIA contractor. The American was released on Wednesday and the case was dropped, Pakistani officials said.

Sen. Al Franken claimed Monday that big corporations are “hoping to destroy” the Internet and issued a call to arms to several hundred tech-savvy South by Southwest attendees to preserve net neutrality.

A watchdog group revealed that there had been several instances when the U.S. almost had a nuclear accident. The public was never informed. Should we care? Or is it better that we don’t know? Who’s to blame if it really did happen?

Energy professionals get it, why can’t our political leaders do the same? What’s so difficult with climate change or renewable energy that these same politicians don’t understand? Perhaps they would only listen when their corporate sponsors speak about it.

If you knew how forests in China were mined ruthlessly just to extract the needed materials to manufacture your most loved iPod, or how it contributed to glacial melting, dirty air, and the increasing incidence of respiratory disease in China, and in L.A., you wouldn’t love the iPod at all.

Trace amounts of radiation has reached Sacramento, according to an anonymous diplomat involved in the program to monitor radiation for the nuclear test ban treaty.

A NASA spacecraft has become the first to enter the orbit of Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, the agency announced Friday.

In what may be a “fresh” break for a country slowly emerging from decades of war, a research renaissance may be in the offing as scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it’s a new creature.

One of the most enduring legends of Roman Britain concerns the disappearance of the Ninth Legion. Historians are baffled as to what mystery surrounds the Legion’s disappearance.

Several UFO sightings were documented on video, albeit unintentionally, prior and during the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Why the mainstream media didn’t cover this is a question easier to answer than what role the UFOs have with the recent catastrophe.

The release of top-secret Ministry of Defense files has revealed north Kent has been a hive of paranormal activity, with three separate incidents reported to the authorities in the space of two years.

The 11,195 spent fuel rods at the Fukushima nuclear power plant may be the biggest threat.

As if signifying something ominous, the House Energy Committee, akin to what the Biblical Peter did, voted three times to deny the existence of climate change. What happens next? Perhaps, only heaven knows.

Nicolas Sarkozy’s former presidential election campaign head has rejected claims by Col Muammar Gaddafi’s son that they received funding from Libya.

The Independent candidate for Oxley, Richard McGovern, says an on-line poll to gauge the public’s mood on fluoridation of the water supply was ‘the best democratic decision’ to make.

An anti-fluoride activist was disappointed to find out that the Department of Health chief “helped” a water company to fluoridate the water supply by extending its authority.

The City of Winnipeg has lowered fluoride levels in its drinking water to meet new provincial guidelines. But still not a reason to smile says Anti-Fluoride advocates.

In the age of satellite TV, the internet, and other technologies, one country’s standards may be insufficient to protect children from being exposed to junk food marketing.

Grist’s Tom Philpott argues that reviving the health of mid-sized farms is a critical task if we’re going to create a just, fair, and green food system.

The European Commission has announced it will refer Poland to the Court of Justice for maintaining its ban on GM seeds. Here’s to hoping Poland does not give in and place its citizens’ health first.

European Union farm ministers failed to reach a decision on Thursday on whether to grant import approval to three genetically modified (GM) crops. The public has long decided that they don’t want it. So, are the ministers waiting for “grease money”?

For failure to comply with rules and regulations pertaining to the Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) ban, the European Commission has criticized Bulgaria and threatened that it has two months to come to heel or face the European Court of Justice.

The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) warned Dar es Salaam on its plan to use GMOs or genetically engineered seeds, and encouraged instead the use of local high breed seeds.

Hotel in Hawaii breaks monotonous line of cuisines served in hotels by offering “GMO-free cuisine.”

If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider — the world’s largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year — could be the first machine capable of causing matter to travel backwards in time.

A new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder indicates Neanderthals were good at using fire, and were not dimwitted brutes as often portrayed.

Cannons. Gold dust. Turtle bones. Hopefully, none of the pirate’s curse. The ship of the legendary pirate, Blackbeard, may what archaeologists have discovered in the seas of North Carolina.

Researchers are using lasers to scan the nearly three dozen stones, or megaliths, that make up the famous circular complex on the Salisbury Plain of southern England, better known as the Stonehenge.

It’s a good thing the outer space battles in “Star Wars” happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — because under a new space-based weapons treaty drafted by aerospace and military experts, humans and aliens alike would be barred from waging war above Earth.

Geothermal power may well be the next big clean energy source, which may even double in capacity in the coming years.

For many years, a small handful of countries dominated growth in wind power, but this is changing as the industry goes global, with more than 70 countries now developing wind resources.

A new device looks very promising in extending the battery life of modern devices.

A long time clean technology inventor who has been working electric vehicles, has now ventured to making solar powered boats.

Opening new areas in the US to oil drilling and exploration will never make the country energy independent. In fact it won’t even put a dent in gas prices anytime soon.

If the Japanese reactors experience a melt-down the radiation could be carried by the jet-stream and reach North America in as little as 2 days, but would it pose a health threat?

Michigan lawmakers are on the verge of approving a bill that would enable the governor to appoint “emergency managers” — officials with unilateral power to make sweeping changes to cities facing financial troubles.

The White House proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making “illegal streaming” of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.

How would you react if you are told today that the nation’s presidential election of 2008 was a hoax? A purportedly close ally of the President, said that Obama’s presidency is just “a prank gone too far.”

A documentary filmmaker who has spent much of his career focusing on the Japanese nuclear industry says the country has a long history of cover-ups.

The U.S. has been grooming globalist stooge ElBaradei to finally be ready to pry his way into Egypt’s presidency.

People were angry during the public consultation last week with regards to the fluoridation issue in Yanchep.

A recent press release issued by the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation is warning parents and caregivers about mixing fluoridated water with infant formula.

Local residents in Southampton are angry after a judge gave a water fluoridation scheme the green light.

Milk and meat from ‘cloned’ animals’ offspring could soon be on sale without any labels, the European consumer group BEUC warns. The European Commission (EC) is threatening to force through the proposal backed by the British Government.

An author and chemist discussed the science behind fluoride in water at the Colgate Bookstore at Colgate University last week.

Does using a cell phone have an effect on the brain? According to a 2011 study titled “Effects of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Signal Exposure on Brain Glucose Metabolism,” the answer is ABSOLUTELY.

Cell phone radiation is leading to bird deaths and a decrease in their population in the Dharmapuri region of India’s Tamil Nadu state.

A medical doctor pointed out in a video that regardless of how strongly anyone feels about being able to use cell phones and wireless technology, there is a price to be paid. And it’s none else but our body’s health that suffers.

Malta has taken up a commendable stand against the latest move to introduce genetically modified organisms in theEuropean food chain.

A UN official has issued a report stating that the future of sustainable development does not lie in chemical ag, but rather in sustainable agricultural techniques.

What most of us see as the ubiquitous blight of modern convenience consumerism, i.e., littered plastic shopping bags, Japanese inventor Akinori Ito sees as the “fuel of the future”.

As we add more clean renewable energy, additional storage will need to be invented and commercialized to go with it. One of these is liquid air energy storage.

According to NREL, the 7700 produces electricity at or near the same price as a new state-of-the-art gas-powered plant in six states.

Florida has a less-robust solar market than states like California, Arizona and even New Jersey – but solar proponents in Florida are expecting brighter days ahead.

In light of the disastrous unraveling of Japan’s nuclear facilities, the Obama administration moved swiftly to reassure an anxious public that reactors in the United States are safe.

A special state House committee on economic development last week urged Congress to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea composed of 160 nations as parties.

A major health insurance program in Ghana that the World Bank is pushing as a success model for other developing countries is severely flawed and not working for most Ghanaians, according to Oxfam and Ghanaian NGOs’ report.

College student, Amelia Jensen, suggests that one way people can help in stopping the killing of animals by the meat industry and other businesses that make money out of animal abuse, is by going vegetarian.

Americans are never told what national security actually means at the cash register. So much is being spent on war related programs of the government, but slashing hugely on budgets for food and education, among others. You’ll be shocked how much the government is keeping from the public.

The House committee on Energy and Commerce — whose leaders are backed by ag, chemical and fossil fuel industries — voted to strip the EPA of its existing powers to regulate carbon dioxide, methane and other agents of global warming.

Ever wonder why politicians pay so little attention to climate change? The problem isn’t the messaging; it’s the money — and a lot of that money comes from the Koch Brothers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

A website depicts environmental radiation levels across the USA. This is the first web site where the average citizen (or anyone in the world) can see what radiation levels are anywhere in the USA at any time. Look closely, you may be within a radiation radius.

Some claim that the ancient city of Atlantis was plagued with volcanic eruptions, leading to theories it may have been swallowed by a tsunami. Scientists say they have found proof of a 4,000-year-old civilization that was buried by a tsunami, which they believe might be the lost city.

Biomass fuels can help developing nations fight poverty, create jobs and gain energy independence, says a new report published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

A new form of “frozen smoke” holds the potential to detect pollutants, efficiently store energy, and even improve robotic surgeries.

For venture capitalists placing their bets on renewable energy, the two-year high in oil prices is a chance to re-engage the public with the potential of emerging clean technologies.

What happened in Japan recently has made Germany to realize to fast track the decommissioning of its old nuclear power plants and invest on renewable energy development instead.

A new study has revealed the critical importance of Teshekpuk Lake region in Arctic, where tens of thousands of birds breed during the brief, but productive arctic summers.

On 4 March 1960, at 3:10 PM a bomb exploded aboard the French ship La Coubre while in Cuba and nearly 100 people died. Evidence suggests that the bomb was planted by the CIA but documents in the US and France remain classified.

There is much more to the issue of union busting in Wisconsin than the pseudo-liberal media is letting you know.

Facebook and MySpace are easy places for criminals to get personal info. used for identity theft.

We are witnessing corporate-government seizure of the means by which humans survive and thrive. Major corporations, backed by government, are causing cancer and other diseases with their toxic products.

The government’s sudden change of mind ignores the ample evidence showing that most of the damage wreaked by fluoride isn’t of the dental nature, but is instead found deep within the body, in our bones and organs.

A team of researchers has found that minced banana peels can clean pollution from river water, such as lead and copper.

An enzyme viewed as an executioner, because it can push cells to commit suicide, may actually short circuit a second form of cell death, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have discovered.

African American people who identify more strongly with their racial identity are generally happier, according to a study led by psychology researchers at Michigan State University.

Mother Jones reports that one of the items on the GOP’s budgetary chopping block is … tsunami monitoring.

The shifting of the Earth’s axis has created severe changes in our global weather, seismic & volcanic activity. And it will get much worse. Know the facts & scientific details about these increasing global problems.

Is the Japanese earthquake the latest natural disaster to have been caused by a ‘supermoon’? The powerful tsunami that slammed into Japan’s eastern coast comes just two days after warnings that the movement of the moon could trigger unpredictable events on Earth.

Classified documents revealed the British government’s attempt in 1978 to derail Grenada’s plan to convince the United Nations to form a special UFO study committee.

Court allows ‘warlock’ out to break curfew on full moon nights to perform Wicca ritual.

What used to power ships of the past, will now power oil tankers. Well, at least just the inspiration. Breaking technology has produced solar sails that collect sunlight or wind to power ships.

Taking a cue from good ol’ Ben Franklin, this electrifying tower design would harness bolts of lighting to smash molecules of water into hydrogen and oxygen.

Those who installed or even planned to install wind turbines at home drew a lot of criticisms and oppositions — either because of aesthetics, electromagnetism, etc. But what if you “those concerns” are not present? Here’s the new technology.

Professor Gerardine Botte of Ohio University has developed a process to extract hydrogen from the ammonia and urea found in urine.

Until the explosion at Fukushima, nuclear power was enjoying a renaissance as a ‘clean’ source of energy. Now its future looks a lot less secure.

Domestic chickens display signs of empathy, the ability to ”feel another’s pain” that is at the heart of compassion, a study has found.

Many birds swallow trash show biologists findings that 84% tested had junk in their guts.

Many people in Sanikiluaq had no idea what caused a disease outbreak that led to more than 100 residents getting sick earlier this winter.

Climate change presents new risks for food care, sanitation and wellbeing in the Arctic, but little research has been done in remote villages experiencing some of the biggest temperature swings.

In a bid to appeal to all the NIMBYs (not in my backyard!) who refuse to have wind turbines located anywhere near them, Amsterdam-based NL Architects have designed tree-like urban windmills that blend seamlessly into city environments.

Another clean technology takes advantage of the abundance of water, even little traces of it, to awaken a fuel cell, and produce enough kick to power electronic gadgets.

One California-based company called PolyPlus created a lithium-water battery that is making quite a splash.

Energy from the Earth’s core as a clean energy alternative? Maybe. Scientists are working on developing such an option.

University of Bristol engineers have devised a “hundred-year battery” that could report the state of buried nuclear waste repositories wirelessly to the surface 100 years after it is buried, sealed, and cemented into the ground, with sensors attached.

The ability to make your own oil may just get a bit easier in the future. A solar powered floating scum collector sucks up algae and combines it with a chemical and transforms it into bio-oil instantly.

In a speech he gave on March 5 at Madison, Wisconsin, Michael Moore said that America is not broke, not at all. He tells the people why.

To keep travelers as “safe and secure as possible,” the federal government last month ordered, in secrecy, every airline in the U.S. to remove emergency oxygen in every lavatory on all 6,000 domestic commercial aircraft.

Meat producers are conniving with some lawmakers to end clean fuel subsidies, claiming that the ethanol policy has caused an increase in the cost of meat production. If so, then why are these companies raking in record profits?

Scientific research shows that microwave radiation can cause serious heart problems.

Had the Japanese earthquake hit California Americans would all be suffering radiation poisoning.

A leaked document shows that the Obama Goons are proposing soviet-style laws related to copyright and patents.

The installation of microwave transmitting meters in California poses a serious health hazard.

Many Americans despise Obama and it isn’t because of his skin color. In reality, Obama isn’t the problem, we are the problem.

Bolivian President Evo Morales has banned the sinister US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) from Bolivia. Congratulations Evo! Be sure to wear a bullet proof vest.

Up to half of elderly people are being mis-diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

New research shows that the drugs commonly prescribed for ADD/ADHD can cause Parkinson’s disease.

The cancer blocking herb thunder god vine and most other herbs and traditional medicines will no longer be available in the EU starting May 1.

Fed created inflation raises the real value of assets artificially, so bad assets appear to be appreciating when in fact they are not. As inflation climbs, unemployment will grow and wages will remain stagnant so that the anointed can continue to accumulate wealth.

Although not really a major victory, but Greenville Water System’s decision to reduce the amount of fluoride in its drinking water is still a welcome development in the fight to eradicate flouridation of water.

In a move that is clearly another defeat for public health and safety, Arkansas state representatives voted 56-35 in favor of a bill requiring fluoride added to public drinking water.

China has now openly announced the act. Although there’s no similar move by the U.S. government, still it doesn’t mean Americans are not yet monitored and tracked through their cellphones.

In a recent poll, out today, 95% of the 1,508 people surveyed reported using some type of electronic device — such as a cellphone, computer, video game or TV, is the culprit behind their sleeplessness.

New Democrat Agriculture Critic, Alex Atamanenko (British Columbia Southern Interior), believes stopping Monsanto from registering its GMO alfalfa, already approved by Canada’s Health and Environment agencies, a top priority.

Greenpeace handed over a 180,000-signature petition calling on the EU executive to stop the authorisation of GM rice made by German pharmaeutical giant Bayer.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has overturned a previous ruling to destroy the genetically modified sugar beets, ruling in favor of Monsanto and the USDA, to the utter disgust of anti-GMO advocates.

In a study published in the March 3 issue of the journal Nature, UC Berkeley’s paleobiologists assess where mammals and other species stand today in terms of possible extinction, compared with the past 540 million years, and they find cause for hope as well as alarm.

Our earliest ancestors preferred to settle in locations that have something in common with cities such as San Francisco, Naples and Istanbul — they are often on active tectonic faults in areas that have an earthquake risk or volcanoes, or both.

An astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center says he has found conclusive evidence of alien life — in a meteorite (There are only nine such meteorites on planet Earth).

The dual sunset comes just weeks after rumors of a second sun flooded the Net.

The previously classified files released for the first time by the National Archives contain more than 8500 pages revealing how UFO sightings and alien abductions have been discussed by the world’s most powerful governments.

Wall Street’s shadow king, Blackrock’s Larry Fink who manages over $3 trillion, and is the world’s biggest asset manager said in a TV interview that the “market likes totalitarian governments.”

The legislation, which has 12 co-sponsors, would let Utahans pay their taxes with gold and also calls for a committee to study alternative currencies for the state. It would also exempt the sale of gold from the state capital gains tax.

A second mysterious, robotic space plane was launched into orbit by the U.S. Air Force Saturday, after the first craft safely returned to Earth late last year following a secretive months-long mission and speculation about its potential military or intelligence uses.

The US Depart of Homeland Security has been working on plans to roll out a new wave of mobile surveillance technologies at places where there huge crowds gather either for entertainment or awaiting transportation.

Consumers within the EU will not get any information about cloned animal products like milk and meat, despite a high level of consumer rejection of cloning of animals for food production.

The Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker have arrived in Hobart, Tasmania. For the third year in a row, the Australian Federal Police were on the dock waiting to raid the ship at the request of the Japanese government.

International agency Oxfam said the Food Aid Convention needs to be brought up to date with modern ways that aid agencies deal with food crises.

The Russian military claims that the supposed air strikes launched by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi against protesters last week did not happen, suggesting that the key event seized upon by the global media as a justification for a “humanitarian” military intervention was a contrived hoax.

In a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, 46 percent of registered voters surveyed nationally said a shutdown would be a good thing for the country because it would stop the government from racking up more debt.

The U.S. dollar has been the world’s currency for decades now… so most Americans don’t have a clue about what the repercussions are of losing this status. In fact, the exchange value of the U.S. dollar has fallen about 8% so far this year. And its rate of decline is accelerating.

Some political experts have said that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in a battle with public employee unions over the right to collective bargaining, has overreached in his attempts to shore up the state’s budget shortfall.

More than four decades after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, his convicted murderer wants to go free for a crime he says he can’t remember. The defendant’s lawyer is claiming that his client was under mind-control at the time.

Why kill a man who considered himself – and was indeed considered by the world around him – to be so ineffective that he had not even bothered to seek proper security for himself, despite being constantly threatened by Pakistan’s millions of faceless fanatics?

Italy’s supreme Court has ordered Vatican Radio to compensate a small town near Rome following claims that children there were at a higher risk of cancer because of the broadcaster’s high-powered transmitters.

Some sectors in the community of Texas State University asked whether the scholarship group’s use of discrimination to promote equality is reasonable.

More than 90 percent of nursing homes employ one or more people who have been convicted of at least one crime, federal investigators said in a new report.

A nuclear exchange between superpowers was predicted to cause a “nuclear winter.” But even a regional nuclear or small nuclear war could spark “unprecedented” global cooling and reduce rainfall for years, according to U.S. government computer models.

Scientists were baffled when the ever occurring sunspots disappeared for two years. Now they know. An answer is being published in the March 3rd edition of Nature.

There’s an epidemic sweeping across America. The odds are that there’s 1-in-3, and chances are you’ve already been hit.

This time, the FDA probably did good by removing from the market hundreds of unapproved cold, cough, and allergy drugs that were already available and sold for decades. So, what took them so long?

It may not be the water droplets from the toilet bowl, but the particles traveling from a flushed toilet will contaminate exposed toothbrushes, by what researches call as the “aerosol effect.”

Since GMOs existed, scientists thought that other are contaminated because of GM-genes that “escape” into the environment. However, this was proven untrue by a recent discovery.

In spite of some good news for the Mexican agriculture and biodiversity, the consequences of recent frosts in northern states and the aggressive propaganda of the industry is still putting at risk Mexico’s basic grain.

Maine is facing two intertwined issues that are in danger of striking anytime. How the bees are taken care of and how the people would let up from using pesticides and how they grow their alfalfa will hold the answer.

A recent poll showed 87 percent of Americans don’t want GMO foods in their plate. Can there be a “free market” when taxpayer subsidies are used to shore up a product which consumers don’t want to buy?

The rice trial has exposed the ugly truth about how the USDA “silenced” the issue of GM leak to supposedly “clean” rice shipped to Europe in 2006 and thereafter.

While we are still holding our breath because of the ill-effects that Roundup Ready GMO crops bring, here comes along another reason to throw it all to the bin.

South Africa uses food shortage as an excuse to produce more GMO crops on an area that has significantly increased in size since last year’s. This, while neighboring Zimbabwe and Zambia has successfully avoided GMOs.

Clearly intended to dis-inform and trick the consumers, franken producers has labeled a genetically engineered mouse-pig as “EnviroPig,” when there is no trace of it being environment friendly.

Moscow has opted not to round up its estimated 26,000 stray dogs and send them packing to a location far outside of town. Activists see this as a small victory.

A national animal welfare charity has branded as “absurd and abhorrent” the plan to cull out roe deer cull to protect a tree-planting scheme in Aberdeen.

The freak big freezes that have paralysed parts of Europe and US has been linked to the breakdown of an Arctic weather system named the “Polar Vortex”.

Study reveals that of all people, the children and pregnant women are most susceptible to electromagnetic radiation emitted by cellphones and other devices using wireless technologies.

The recent “surrender” of organic businesses to GMO companies has raised the debate on what foods or product can really be called organic.

The Philippines’ Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala expressed objections to the commercial production of genetically modified eggplants that were being tested in various sites in the country.

A bill that would protect small farmers from liability over inadvertent presence of genetically-modified crops failed to pass the House Monday. The bill failed after two votes by the full House.

The Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) group is setting a criteria for their soy products to ensure Non-GMO products only are shipped to Europe. This move by RTRS is seen as a threat by palm oil producers.

Post mortem reveals top researcher died from plague due to an unknown iron disorder that turned harmless bacteria into a deadly virus.

Cardiovascular device development remains skewed against women, with too few trials adequately addressing gender despite long-standing requirements by the FDA, researchers found.

Climate change may accelerate evolution in some species – but that doesn’t guarantee that threatened populations will cope in the long run.

German scientist Joachim Rittsteig claims to have cracked the Dresden Codex, and believes 8 tons of gold tablets await discovery.

The missing link of electronics, which evaded discovery until 2008, was at our fingertips the whole time. Ordinary human skin behaves like a memristor, a device that “remembers” the last current it experienced and varies its resistance accordingly.

Whoever thought that we can one day pour water into a lamp to make it light up? This new technology would certainly help us do away with burning fossil fuels, a step at a time.

Harnessing the power of the fidget, the Rotator device can power handheld devices such as an mp3 player by twirling the electronic gadget on your finger. Imagine what a bigger and modified version can power up.

Retails stores are what people usually run to for groceries and mostly all other things you need–quick. One outlet in UK may revolutionize retail stores someday–by selling electricity.

Having had tried its hands into solar power, wind turbines, high efficiency LED lighting, and even geothermal installations, the Department of Defense is now converting landfill gas into electricity.

Wind power is about to make a comeback, in the form of rigid “sails” that double as solar panels.

The Pentagon is using social media to attack those who support peace and democracy and promote its fascist culture.

When CIA terrorist Raymond Davis gunned down two Pakistani civilians in broad daylight on a crowded street in Lahore, he probably never imagined that the entire Washington establishment would spring to his defense.

Another 9 children have been killed in Obama’s war of terror on the people of Afghanistan. Most of the thousands of Afghans killed have been civilians and many have been children.

It is very unlikely that the United States will cut the military budget or end our wars in Central Asia until the concept of maintaining world influence by militarily presence is discredited and abandoned.

Lawyers will debate before a panel of judges in Atlanta on Tuesday whether sharing food with the needy is a constitutional right or not, in a possible culmination of a years-long battle over Orlando’s handling of the homeless.

The much belated and bemoaned trial of the modern-day darling of civil disobedience begins, and as much as Tim DeChristopher has told his story to the throngs, now it’s time to tell it to a jury.

As Republican attacks on public employees garner headlines, public universities are also driving to stamp out progressive activism.

Egyptians want it. So do Palestinians, Arabs throughout the region, protesting East and West Europeans, others across the world, and growing numbers in America – yes, even in America, especially in Wisconsin.

Complaining that “for too long others have defined what credit unions can be and should be,” CUNA President/CEO Bill Cheney lamented, but vowing at the same time to step up political activism.

For the first time, researchers from the University of Cambridge and the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing have analysed the link between a positive adolescence and well-being in midlife.

If you want to improve the way you eat, the best way to do so is to both make an action plan and visualize yourself carrying it out, according to McGill researchers.

The bones of people who died up to a hundred years ago are being used in the development of new treatments for chronic back pain. It is the first time old bones have been used in this way.

Humans turn out to be particularly smelly because odors are released from nearly every part of the body while other species living on us are simultaneously emitting odors too.

Wolves raised with humans pay close attention to our actions and even follow our eye gaze, say two researchers. They even pass a gazing test that dogs fail.

Forest biomass could replace as much as one quarter of the liquid fossil fuel now being used for industrial and commercial heating in the Northeastern United States.

Gaining new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bio-reactors produce methane from brewery waste, Cornell scientists hope to use their new knowledge to shape these microbial communities to produce liquid biofuels.

Driven by space constraints, the solar industry is now considering to put solar panels above bodies of water. Yes, a floating solar farm. Why not?

Green tech has made some stunning advances in the past few years, so it’s not impossible would cease to be the staple on American power grids.

OK, it takes more than fresh air and sunshine to make usable, sustainable bio-fuels. But thanks to the work of Massachusetts-based Joule Unlimited, it doesn’t take much more!

Air pollution triggers more heart attacks than using cocaine and poses as high a risk of sparking a heart attack as alcohol, coffee and physical exertion, scientists said.

Drinking too many sugary beverages appears to raise the risk of high blood pressure, experts are warning.

This may surely break the hearts of dog lovers and owners. But this is a very good reason for them to avoid kissing their pets. As the worn out, yet still wise, saying goes: it is better to be safe than sorry.

Researchers developed a vaccine that promises to protect against both Alzheimer’s and stroke. The vaccine is delivered via a nasal spray.

Markedly higher intake of vitamin D is needed to reach blood levels that can prevent or markedly cut the incidence of breast cancer and several other major diseases than had been originally thought.

A newly excavated archaeological site in Alaska contains the cremated remains of one of the earliest inhabitants of North America.

Did we pull ourselves out from the natural selection and progression of species, when we decided to use tools and technology?