1 week ago - The team headed by Dr Rina Avner has uncovered remains of a settlement dating to Byzantine period (4-6th centuries CE). Among other finds, the site has yielded a main building – a large hall about 12 m long x 8.5 m wide. “Its ceiling was apparently covered with roof ...
1 week ago - Energy-saving LED technology has been in the limelight as the best way to reduce the electricity demands of residential and commercial lighting. But how safe are LED lights? A vision researcher from Complutense University in Madrid reports that exposure to LED lights can cause ...
1 week ago - Die hard conservatives love to disparage liberals as tree huggers, but it has been recently scientifically validated that hugging trees is actually good for you. Research has shown that you don't even have to touch a tree to get better, you just need to be within its vicinity has a ...
1 week ago - Two months ago, the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA), a Bush-era law that allows the NSA to wiretap American citizens without a warrant. Now, the full scope of the US government's warrantless surveillance schemes is ...
1 week ago - Top 5 Worst chemically modified foods to avoid Always choose Organic to avoid the harmful effects of GMOs and poisonous pesticides! 1. Corn: This is a no-brainer. If youve watched any food documentary, you know corn is highly modified. As many as half of all U.S. farms growing ...
1 week ago - The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the more than 800 ...
1 week ago - One person's trash may be another person's treasure, but sometimes, trash is just trash. So-called junk DNA, the vast majority of the genome that doesn't code for proteins, really isn't needed for a healthy organism, according to new research. "At least for a ...
1 week ago - Scientists at the UnIversity of Edinburgh in the UK suggest that the heart-health benefits of sun exposure may outweigh the risk of developing skin cancer. In the landmark study, the researchers found that when sunlight touches our skin, a compound called nitric oxide that helps ...
1 week ago - Twelve people are being treated for gunshot wounds following a shootout at a second line parade on Mother’s Day in New Orleans. The youngest victim in the surprise attack was 10 years old, according to a local resident. Over 300 people were participating in the residential ...
1 week ago - Did a woman unwittingly capture the creeping presence of an alien creature lurking outside her vehicle? Or is it something else entirely? This eerie photograph popped online today, inciting some heated debate rational explanations for what certainly looks like a bug-eyed figure ... 9
1 week ago - Devious sci-fi aliens have hatched many plots to conquer humanity, from the Machiavellian Martians of "The War of the Worlds" books to the current hit movie "Oblivion." However, the invaders' ambitions frequently fail, perhaps because nature has already tried many of these assaults on ...
1 week ago - INTERNET mogul Kim Dotcom says designs for a 3D-printed gun are "scary" and he has deleted public links to its blueprints from his new file-sharing website. The US government is investigating whether the gun design, created by US-based Defense Distributed, breached arms-control ... 1
1 week ago - The saltwater lake has 10 times more salt than the ocean — making the water buoyant — and tourists from Buenos Aires' large Jewish community flocked there to float in water that reminded them of the Dead Sea. The town thrived for decades — its population topped 5,000 ...
1 week ago - Plants can communicate the onset of an attack from aphids by making use of an underground network of fungi, researchers have found. Instances of plant communication through the air have been documented, in which chemicals emitted by a damaged plant can be picked up by a ...
1 week ago - Pulling from 20 years of research since the first discoveries of planets beyond our solar system, scientists have concluded that Earth and its sibling worlds comprise what appears to be a relatively rare breed in a diverse cosmic zoo that includes a huge variety of planet sizes, ...