A new law dubbed the “Facebook law”, that prevents teachers from contacting their students over the Internet has led to the filing of charges by a Missouri teacher, who said the law made it illegal for her to chat with her own child using Facebook. Teachers are prohibited by the new law to engage in [...]
After thirteen months and several surgeries, this sea turtle is finally free. It was more than a year ago when this sea turtle was rescued with pneumonia and a collapsed lung. The spinal cord of the turtle was exposed by the holes in its shell which also allowed a crab and several pounds of sand [...]
NASA officials have confirmed the discovery in eastern Texas of pieces of debris coming from the space shuttle Columbia by NASA, eight years after the spacecraft was destroyed in the 2003 re-entry disaster which left seven astronaut-crews dead. The debris, remnants of the space shuttle’s parts as it disintegrated when it re-entered the atmosphere of [...]
News reports show the discovery of a massive space rock in northwest China’s remote and mountainous region. Reports show it could be one of the largest meteorites ever recovered. The Sky and Telescope Magazine reported that the rock, which was huge and shaped oddly, was found in the Altai Mountains in the Xinjiang Uygur province [...]
The family of this South African man were already mourning his death but nearly a day after his supposed-death, the man woke up and found himself inside a morgue fridge. Health department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said the “dead” man woke up Sunday afternoon. This was almost 21 hours after he was sent to the morgue [...]
The United States and the Soviet Union may have put their race to space behind but another competitor to the cosmic race is raring to take the lead. Several private sector companies are ready to take the opportunity to carry American astronauts into orbit especially now that the space shuttle fleet of NASA has been [...]
Many astronauts may be mourning the mothballing of the United States space shuttle program but this is considered a good prospect by Russia since it will be the world’s only carrier to the International Space Station. Russia’s Soviet-vintage Soyuz spacecraft is set to earn hundreds of millions of dollar in fees for ferrying astronauts from [...]
A news study shows how the policies of three film companies to reduce the use of tobacco on-screen led to the drastic reduction of smoking in movies that are targeted towards children and teens. Tobacco scenes in movies from these companies over the past five years have dropped from an average of 23 to only [...]
China will have a man in the moon by 2020. But first, it will bring the first building block for a Chinese space station with the aid of a rocket which will carry the module into orbit this year. Then it will set a rover loose on the moon by launching a lunar probe by [...]
The stormy weather failed to delay the planned launch by NASA of the space shuttle Atlantis Friday which is on the final flight of its 30-year program. Fuel filled the tank of the Atlantis before dawn despite the 70 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms predicted by weather forecasters. The return of the Atlantis to [...]
