Virgin Galactic’s suborbital space plane SpaceShipTwo suffered a serious malfunction during a rocket-powered test flight over Mojave, California, today (Oct. 31) resulting in the loss of the spacecraft. One of the two […]
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Spacecraft Crashes During Test Flight
History of Halloween
Halloween is the season for little ghosts and goblins to take to the streets, asking for candy and scaring one another silly. Spooky stories are told around fires, scary movies appear in […]
Genetic Factors Behind Surviving or Dying From Ebola Shown In Mouse Study
A newly developed mouse model suggests that genetic factors are behind the mild-to-deadly range of reactions to the Ebola virus. People exposed to Ebola vary in how the virus affects them. Some […]
SpaceX’s Dragon Cargo Spaceship Returns to Earth
A private SpaceX Dragon capsule dropped into the Pacific Ocean today (Oct. 25, 2014), returning almost 2 tons of cargo and science experiments to Earth from the International Space Station. The unmanned […]
Sport & Gender: A History of Bad Science & ‘Biological Racism’
Having become the first Indian sprinter to reach a final at a global athletics event in 2013, the 18-year-old was already the national champion at 100m and 200m, and an Asian Games […]
Notebook From Antarctic Explorer’s Last Expedition Found Encased In Ice
A notebook from the last expedition of legendary British explorer Robert F. Scott was found encased in ice in an Antarctic hut, according to the Antarctic Heritage Trust. The notebook belonged to […]
American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist
Are Americans getting dumber? Our math skills are falling. Our reading skills are weakening. Our children have become less literate than children in many developed countries. But the crisis in American education […]
It’s Time to Disrupt Europe: Digital First
This article was published as part of the series “Digital Minds for a New Europe” on the ‘Digital Agenda for Europe’ page of Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission. Below, the […]
Oldest DNA Ever Found Sheds Light On Humans’ Global Trek
Scientists said this week they had unravelled the oldest DNA ever retrieved from a Homo sapiens bone, a feat that sheds light on modern humans’ colonisation of the planet. A femur found […]
Respect And Reciprocity: The Keys To The Future Of The EU
What have the following in common? + The Scottish 45% YES to break up the UK…. + The Growth of National Front in France…. + English anti EU sentiment and support for […]
39,000 Year Old Cave Paintings from Sulawesi, Indonesia, Earliest Cave Art Discovered So Far
Cave Paintings in Indonesia Redraw Picture of Earliest Art The dating discovery recasts ancient cave art as a continent-spanning human practice. A hand painted in an Indonesian cave dates to at least 39,900 […]
The Future of HR: Looking At The Next 10 Years
HR has been evolving a lot as a function in the last couple of years. The war for talent has been increasing, and as a consequence organizations are looking at HR more […]
New Therapy Leads to Lasting Remission in Leukemia Patients
Six years and one day ago, a 5-year-old girl named Tori Lee was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. “There’s nothing worse to hear as […]
I Am Malala: Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday in Oslo, Norway. The committee honored them “for their struggle against the suppression of […]
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