The rollout of the Shuttle Discovery in April, 2005 Saturday, July 23, 2005 NASA has announced that the Space Shuttle Discovery is due to blast off on Tuesday 26 July at 10.39 am EDT. The news that the 43 hour countdown will Read More
Thursday, June 23, 2011 This mosaic was created from two high-resolution images that were captured by the narrow-angle camera when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew past Enceladus and through the jets on Nov. 21, 2009. Image: NASA/JPL/SSI. NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence Read More
Monday, August 18, 2014 Yesterday the Peshmerga, military of the autonomous region of Kurdistan in Iraq, gained control of parts of the Mosul Dam, as part of their advance against insurgents of the Islamic State. International opposition to the Islamic militant group Read More
Thursday, October 18, 2007 It can be difficult to be John Reed. Christopher Hitchens called him a “Bin Ladenist” and Cathy Young editorialized in The Boston Globe that he “blames the victims of terrorism” when he puts out a novel like Snowball’s Read More
Monday, March 12, 2007 24 of 26 Swiss Cantons rejected the proposal for a single health insurance system, in which premiums would be based on income and wealth. The vote on Sunday was the latest in a series of attempts to cut Read More
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Two Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, magnified 50,000 times. An infectious superbug spreading in the United States is to “emerge in force” in Canada, doctors fear. The bacteria have been reported popping up in day care centers and locker rooms Read More
Thursday, November 25, 2010 Holloway disappeared in Aruba in 2005. She was seen leaving a nightclub with three men. A jawbone found in Aruba is not that of missing American Natalee Holloway, who was a recent high school-graduate at the time of Read More
Human chromosomes, which contain a person’s genes. Image: Steffen Dietzel. Thursday, April 24, 2008 In a unanimous 95-0 vote Thursday, the United States Senate passed a bill that would forbid employers and health insurance companies from discriminating against someone based on information Read More
Monday, September 5, 2005 Tokyo, Japan — Eleven university hospitals in Tokyo have been threatened with bombings, within 45 days, unless they double admissions quotas to their medical schools for the next academic year. The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo Medical and Read More
Friday, October 6, 2006 Up to 17,000 people are being evacuated in Apex, North Carolina after a chlorine gas leak occurred during a Hazardous Waste facility explosion and fire. Residents are advised to keep windows closed, turn off all air conditioning and Read More