On June 4th, 2012, there's going to be a full Moon. According to Native American folklore it’s the Strawberry Moon, so-called because the short season for harvesting strawberries comes during the month of June. This Strawberry’s going to have a bite taken out of it. At 3:00 am Pacific Daylight Time, not long before sunrise [...More...]
A fault at a chemicals factory has caused a spectacular fireball to erupt into Sydney's night sky. Firefighters rushed to Orica's plant at Port Botany about 10pm after a number of local residents reported seeing large flames. "This flare-up is due to a fault in a boiler, causing excess gas to be burnt off," [...More...]
Stocking up on flashlights, batteries and other items to get ready for hurricane season this summer? You might want to wait for May 26 and 27, when the state of Louisiana will hold its annual sales tax holiday for hurricane preparedness items. That weekend, Louisiana residents won't have to pay the 4 percent state sales tax [...More...]
Stocking up on flashlights, batteries and other items to get ready for hurricane season? You might want to wait and buy between May 25 through May 31, 2012, when the state of Virginia will host the annual sales tax holiday for hurricane and emergency preparedness items. That week, Virginia will not have to pay the state [...More...]
Penny-pinching airlines have begun charging couples and families additional fees to guarantee seats next to each other. Since last summer, American, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines and United Airlines have increased the percentage of coach seats requiring an extra fee in a bid to boost revenue. It means friends and family members who don't [...More...]
Thick dust clouds block our night-time view of the Milky Way, creating what is sometimes called the Dark Rift. The fact that — from the viewpoint of Earth — the sun aligns with these clouds, or the galactic center, near the winter solstice is no cause for concern. Credit: A. Fujii One of the [...More...]
During Memorial Day weekend, Texas shoppers (and out-of-state residents shopping in Texas) will get a break from state and local sales and use taxes on purchases of certain energy efficient products. The 2012 ENERGY STAR Sales Tax Holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. (after midnight) on Saturday, May 26, and ends at 11:59 p.m. on [...More...]
On Sunday, May 20th, the sun is going to turn into a ring of fire for it's annular solar eclipse. It is the first annular eclipse to be seen from the United States in 18 years and the first one to be visible from earth in more than 2 years. The eclipse will also be [...More...]
Who's the master in this relationship then? With some standing nearly 6ft tall, you might think its the pets who are taking the lead in these incredible pictures. Not only do the oversized dogs tower over their owners, they have wagging tongues as big as human heads. Some are fluffy, some are grizzly, but all [...More...]
A car enthusiast has completed his six-year project to turn his dream sports car into a 60mph sea-worth vehicle. The Sea Lion, as inventor Marc Witt calls it, is a completely bespoke car that can do 125mph on the roads – and then fly down the pier into the water and keep up a respectable [...More...]
A complicated language could die out because only one elderly woman can speak it. Gyani Maiya Sen, 75, is fluent in Kusunda, a language which hails from western Nepal. However, Ms Sen is the only person of the 100-strong Kusunda tribe who can speak it. She is now at the center of a campaign [...More...]
Incredible footage has emerged of a driver leaping from his moving car to rescue his child who had fallen out onto a busy road junction. The four-year-old girl can be clearly seen dropping out of the front door at the bustling crossroads in China and narrowly missing the back wheel. A taxi driver following close [...More...]
The Peruvian government said Wednesday that 5,000 birds, mostly pelicans, and nearly 900 dolphins have died off the country's northern coast, possibly due to rising temperatures in Pacific waters. The country's northern beaches were earlier this week declared off-limits as scientists scrambled to pin down what was causing such a massive toll, with non-government [...More...]
Ancient tablet unearthed in Turkey. Credit: John MacGinnis at Cambridge University Archaeologists working in Turkey say they've found evidence of a forgotten language dating back more than 2,500 years to the time of the Assyrian Empire. Researchers from Cambridge University in Britain, working at the probable site of the ancient Assyrian city of Tushan, [...More...]
Mayan wall writings in Guatemala include calendars suggesting the culture was not convinced the world will end in 2012, as many have believed, researchers say. Some previously discovered Mayan calendars did not go beyond 2012 — but the newly discovered writings and calendars do, scientists said. "So much for the supposed end of the [...More...]
A fragment from the fireball that exploded over California and Nevada on April 22, 2012. Photo Credit: NASA, Lunar Science Institute Scientists are on an epic treasure hunt for meteorite fragments from a spectacular fireball that lit up the daytime sky over California last month. The space rocks came from a minivan-size asteroid that plunged [...More...]
Scientists have created an 'e-bra' that could help doctors monitor sick female patients anywhere in the world. The bra has integrated sensors that measures vital health signals and uploads the information to a wireless network such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, which the patient and their doctor can then access. It was developed by a [...More...]
A Second World War plane crashed by a British pilot in the Sahara, before he walked off to his death, has been found 70 years later. Unseen and untouched, the Kittyhawk P-40 has been described as an aviation 'time capsule' after it was found almost perfectly preserved in the sands of the western desert [...More...]
A family said they have been left 'humiliated' after they were ordered off a JetBlue flight because airline staff claimed their 18-month-old was on a no fly list. The girl's parents, who did not wish to be identified, believe Jet Blue asked them to leave the flight as they thought little Riyanna was a [...More...]
How do you design a car to be child-destructive proof? You let a bunch of monkeys get a hold of it! Korean car maker Hyundai wanted to discover how its new i30 hatchback would withstand the ordeal of so many inquisitive minds, prying fingers and sticky fingers. Not to mention the unmentionable from a [...More...]
A U.S. Marine got the gift of a lifetime when he returned from Afghanistan to find that his son Michael, 6, had learned to walk. The heartwarming event was recorded as it unfolded in a North Carolina school gymnasium, as Staff Sgt. Jeremy Cooney believed his son's cerebral palsy would keep him from being able [...More...]
A high school baseball team forfeited the championship game because they were unwilling to play against a girl. Our Lady of Sorrows school refused to play Mesa Preparatory Academy today because Paige Sultzbach, 15, covers second base. The student had already agreed to not play two previous games with the highly religious school in [...More...]
Lilly the pit bull saved her owner after she fell unconscious in front of a moving train. Authorities in Massachusetts said a heroic pit bull was injured when she pulled her unconscious owner from the path of a train. Emergency responders said an engineer on the train spotted a dog dragging a woman off [...More...]
San Diego County health officials announced on May 3rd that a ground squirrel found in the Cedar Grove Campground on Palomar Mountain in California has tested positive for plague. Officials found the infected animal during routine monitoring. Officials stated that it is not unusual to find plague in mountainous communities during the summer. Visitors should [...More...]