Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
China is to delay a controversial plan requiring all new computers sold in the country to be equipped with an internet filtering software, state media says.
The filter, called Green Dam Youth Escort, was to have been required from Wednesday, but the industry ministry said computer makers needed more time.
Its planned rollout sparked widespread disapproval inside [...]
The most complete terrain map of the Earth’s surface has been published.
The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry.
The images were taken by Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Aster) aboard the Terra satellite.
The resulting Global Digital Elevation Map covers [...]
Eric Bland, Discovery News
June 23, 2009 — The world’s smallest plasma torch, a device typically used to rip trash apart at extremely high temperatures, is set to make root canals faster, less painful and reduce the chance of infection.
“Our goal is to guarantee that you won’t have to see a doctor for a follow-up visit,” [...]
(CNN) — Four decades have passed since the summer of 1969, when Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and I flew America’s first lunar landing mission.
The passage of time has not faded either the memory of that summer or the importance of what we achieved, for our mission was about more than just exploring the moon.
On July [...]
Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft has obtained strong evidence that Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus retains liquid water.
The probe has detected sodium salts in the vicinity of the satellite, which appear to spew from its south pole.
Liquid water that is in prolonged contact with rock will leach out sodium – in exactly the same way as Earth’s oceans [...]
MOUNT GRAHAM, Ariz. — Fauré’s “Requiem” is playing in the background, followed by the Kronos Quartet. Every so often the music is interrupted by an electromechanical arpeggio — like a jazz riff on a clarinet — as the motors guiding the telescope spin up and down. A night of galaxy gazing is about to begin [...]
Troops willing to die to stop Iran unrest, general says
4 killed, 32 wounded as 6 Baghdad churches bombed
Wife held in boxing champ’s killing in Brazil
NASA fuels space shuttle Endeavour for launch
Two injured in Pamplona bull run, day after death
Two U.S. soldiers killed, Afghan war heats up
Cheney hid CIA program from Congress: senator