Earth is constantly crashing through huge walls of dark matter, and we already have the tools to detect them. That's the conclusion of physicists who say the universe may be filled with a patchwork quilt of force fields created shortly after the big bang. ...
Obama to take first of two oaths of office Sunday
Labels: Technology WASHINGTON: Barack Obama will Sunday be sworn in to shoulder the power and burden of the US presidency for a second term, launching two days of inaugural rituals darkened by domestic discord and crises abroad.Democrat Obama, 51, will swear to faithfully execute the office of president at a low-key ceremony in the Blue Room of the White House, to comply with the US Constitution, which dictates...
Historic D.C., hidden in plain sight
Labels: LifestyleLocals reveal the D.C. you don't knowLocals reveal the D.C. you don't knowLocals reveal the D.C. you don't knowLocals reveal the D.C. you don't knowLocals reveal the D.C. you don't knowLocals reveal the D.C. you don't knowLocals reveal the D.C. you don't knowSTORY HIGHLIGHTSWashington, D.C. holds a lot of nearly hidden historyA tennis court occupies the site of the execution of Lincoln assassination...
Algerian standoff ends; 23 hostages dead
Labels: Health (CBS News) LONDON - Four days after it started, the standoff between Algerian forces and al Qaeda-linked militants in the Sahara Desert is over. Algerian special forces stormed a remote natural gas complex where hundreds of workers had been held captive. Algerian officials say 23 hostages are dead, including one American. About 32 militants are reported to have been killed. Some of the hostages...
Algeria Hostage Crisis Over, One American Dead
Labels: Business After the Algerian military's final assault on terrorists holding hostages at a gas complex, the four-day hostage crisis is over, but apparently with additional loss of life among the foreign hostages.One American, Fred Buttaccio of Texas, has been confirmed dead by the U.S. State Department. Two more U.S. hostages remain unaccounted for, with growing concern among U.S. officials...
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NASA planet-hunter is injured and resting
Labels: World Lisa Grossman, physical sciences reporter(Image: NASA/Kepler mission/Wendy Stenzel)NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope has put its search for alien Earths on hold while it rests a stressed reaction wheel.The injured wheel normally helps to control the telescope's orientation, keeping it pointed continuously at the same patch of sky. Kepler stares at the thousands of stars in its field of view...
Cycling: 'I want to compete again,' Armstrong says
Labels: Technology LOS ANGELES: Disgraced US cyclist Lance Armstrong said in an interview aired Friday that he wants to take part in competitive sports again, even after being banned for doping and stripped of his honors."Hell, yes. I'm a competitor. It's what I've done my whole life. I love to train. I love to race," Armstrong told Oprah Winfrey. "Not the Tour de France, but there's a lot of other...
American among those killed in Algeria hostage crisis
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: 18 attackers "neutralized," Algerian Press Service reportsAlgeria says 12 hostages were killed in the wake of a military operationTerrorists are "entrenched" in a gas refinery with captives, APS saysThe U.S. rejects a reported prisoner exchange offer voiced by a jihadist spokesman(CNN) -- After three days of chaos, drama and an unknown number of deaths, Algerian special forces...
At least one American dead in Algerian hostage crisis
Labels: Health Updated at 6:41 p.m. ET An American in the Algerian hostage standoff in the Algerian desert has been killed, CBS News has learned. Fredrick Buttaccio from Katy, Texas near Houston, was an employee of the oil company BP. It is unknown how he died, but U.S. government sources tell CBS News his body has been recovered and his family has been notified. Meanwhile, a U.S. military plane has landed...
Armstrong's Lowest Point Was Quitting Livestrong
Labels: Business Lance Armstrong, 41, said tonight that the lowest point in his fall from grace and the top of the cycling world came when his cancer charity, Livestrong, asked him to consider stepping down.After the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released a report in October 2012 alleging Armstrong doped throughout his reign as Tour de France champion, Armstrong said a second installment of an interview...
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Matching names to genes: the end of genetic privacy?
Labels: World Continue reading page |1 |2 Are we being too free with our genetic information? What if you started receiving targeted ads for Prozac for the depression risk revealed by your publicly accessible genome? As increasing amounts of genetic information is placed online, many researchers believe that guaranteeing...
Cycling: "One big lie" Armstrong says of 7 drug-fuelled Tours
Labels: Technology LOS ANGELES: Lance Armstrong admitted his seven Tour de France titles were fuelled by an array of drugs, reversing years of denials in a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey broadcast Thursday.Attempting to explain his drug-tainted past, Armstrong sat down with Winfrey for his first interview since being stripped last year of his record seven Tour titles and banned from sport for life.It...
Prepare for 'bad news' in hostage crisis, official says
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: A Belfast man says his brother had explosives around his neck when he escaped Islamist militants take Algerian and foreign hostages at a gas plant in AlgeriaBritish, Norwegian, U.S. and Japanese citizens are among those held hostage "There are still hostages, and there are still terrorists," a senior U.S. official says (CNN) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron warned his compatriots...
Manti Te'o kept girlfriend myth alive after revelation
Labels: Health SOUTH BEND, Ind. Not once but twice after he supposedly discovered his online girlfriend of three years never even existed, Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti Te'o perpetuated the heartbreaking story about her death. 13 PhotosManti Te'oAn Associated Press review of news coverage found that the Heisman Trophy runner-up talked about his doomed love in a Web interview on Dec. 8 and again in...
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