Protesters and police engaged in a tense and prolonged stand-off outside London’s Buckingham Palace as metal barriers cordoning off the area were removed and protesters incited police to fight. At least five people were arrested […]
From an article on Slate.com (source): Police officers at Boston schools want to start carrying pepper spray in order to better deal with threats from violent students, reports the Boston Herald. According to school police […]
Litter is an ongoing problem on Earth, but it also appears to be an issue in outer space. NASA released an animated video simulating what the globe looks like while surrounded by particles of space […]
Are we as old as our age, or only what age we think we are? That’s something that Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer has been examining for over three decades. Through different experiments with senior […]
An orphaned sea otter pup in California has officially landed a forever home. She was first discovered on September 30th when a passerby on an evening stroll heard her cries. The baby was in a […]
On Earth, when light is visible in the sky just before sunrise, or just after sunset, it is caused by grains of dust in space that scatter the sunlight, making it what astronomers refer to […]
Choosing a model to promote a product’s image is something many companies take very seriously, but it appears that a Turkish hair removal enterprise is not among them. They’ve recently published an online ad that […]
Astronomers have identified a lot of celestial bodies in numerous solar systems, but getting to them is another matter. Thanks to science and its super-powerful gadgets, we still have an idea what many of them […]
Via an article in The International Business Times (source): British troops could return to Iraq for the first time in more than two years to help soldiers in Baghdad battle Isis (Islamic State) militants. Ministers […]
On October 31, 2006, an eighteen-year-old woman named Nikki Catsouras slammed her father’s sports car into the side of a concrete toll booth in Orange County, California. Catsouras was decapitated in the accident. The California […]
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