James J. Williams

A solar storm will produce radio blockouts over the next three days

Particles from a recent solar storm will slam today into Earth and produce amazing Northern Lights, or auroras. On the…

13 years ago

Richard Nixon had a gay affair with a Mafia member? A new biography by Don Fulsom

It’s well known that the former US president, Richard Nixon, carpet-bombed Cambodia, spewed out anti-Semitic slurs and crude misogynistic jokes…

13 years ago

Unidentified metallic spaceball crashed to Earth in Namibia

A strange metal sphere that looks like a prop from a science fiction film fell to the ground in a…

13 years ago

Barbaric textbooks teaching students how to chop off hands and feet in Saudi Arabia

It has emerged that barbaric textbooks which were handed out in Saudi Arabian schools teach children how to cut off…

13 years ago

LHC detector Atlas captured a new particle, Chi b, which is not Higgs boson

Large Hadron Collider’s detector Atlas captured a particle that physicists had suspected to exist for years, but had never seen…

13 years ago

Amy Winehouse and other stars “27 Club” is a myth, say researchers

Researchers from Queensland University of Technology found that while fame - and unhealthy lifestyles - did increase the risk of…

13 years ago

NASA space telescope discovered Kepler-20f, the twin of Earth

NASA space telescope has detected Kepler-20f, a rocky planet the same size as the Earth orbiting a star like our…

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The Wise Men were more than three, a new interpretation of an ancient document says

The Three Magi are one of the most recognized symbols of the festive season, emulated in nativity plays all over…

13 years ago

Shroud of Turin could be the real Christ’s burial robe. New evidence.

A group of Italian scientists say that the Shroud of Turin could actually be Christ's burial robe despite years of…

13 years ago

“Whatever” voted as the most annoying word for the third year in a row

A recent poll of Marist University in New York asserts that the word “whatever” was voted as the most annoying…

13 years ago

Phobos-Ground probe will plummet to Earth days after New Year

Phobos-Ground, the $170 million Russian probe, is now heading back to Earth and will crash between January 6 and January…

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Life is possible on Mars. New evidence from Oregon State University research team.

Scientists from Oregon State University have collected microbes from an icy “lava tube” in mountains in Oregon - similarly hostile…

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Japan: Fukushima nuclear site has been stabilized

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has announced that crippled nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima power plant have finally been stabilized. The…

13 years ago

Writer Christopher Hitchens dies at 62, after a long battle with cancer

Author, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right,…

13 years ago

Jacques Chirac found guilty of corruption and received 2 years suspended prison sentence

The former French President Jacques Chirac has been given by a court a two-year suspended prison sentence for diverting public…

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CERN physicist announced firm evidence for the existence of Higgs Boson

A senior CERN physicist from Switzerland has announced this afternoon firm evidence for the existence of the elusive Higgs Boson,…

13 years ago

Image of a 1952 nuclear explosion captured at one ten-millionth of a second after detonation

One of the challenges of the U.S. government during nuclear weapons testing in the early 50’s was to design a…

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Observation of a “light Higgs” particle at a CERN seminar announced for tomorrow

Sources with close contacts inside CERN in Switzerland predicted this weekend that sighting of the first strong signs of a…

13 years ago

Life could exist on Mars, as a huge amount of water is found on polar regions, scientists say

Australian scientists, who have made an overall study of temperature and pressure conditions of Mars, say that a greater percentage…

13 years ago

World’s oldest bottle of wine: German historians debate on its opening

German historians are debating whether or not to open what is believed to be the world’s oldest bottle of wine.…

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Total lunar eclipse 2011: the last chance to see an “impossible” red moon phenomen

Today is the last chance to see the natural wonder of a total lunar eclipse in 2011. The Earth passed…

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First signs of Higgs boson, the God particle, detected by CERN scientists

The first signs of the ultra-elusive Higgs boson particle have been detected by teams working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider…

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Mythbusters shot wrong a cannonball through a house and a van

The Mythbusters busted up a California neighbourhood yesterday evening when an errant cannonball crashed through a minivan and a house.…

13 years ago

Ron Piccirillo cracked the mystery of Mona Lisa after he discovered animals hidden in the painting

Artist Ron Piccirillo claims to have cracked a 500-year-old mystery surrounding the Mona Lisa - by spotting a series of…

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Woolly mammoth could be cloned within 5 years from bone marrow

Russian and Japanese scientists believe it may be possible to clone a woolly mammoth within five years after finding well-preserved…

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