Thousands of students at Eastern Michigan University were given a false scare Friday after an email was mistakenly sent saying that they were kicked out of school due to bad grades. The 'inexcusable mistake' is still not fully understood, as it is not clear how many students- and even recent alums- were sent the [...More...]
Most people have seen the heartwarming reunion of dogs, spouses and children of soldiers who return home from overseas. Here is a heartwarming moment a soldier returned home from Kuwait and surprised his father-in-law. The family captured video of the patriarch on a business call that abruptly ends when he sees his son-in-law in the [...More...]
Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather – great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes stream from the sun – some people worry that a gigantic "killer solar flare" could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth. Citing the accurate fact that solar activity [...More...]
You may have spotted this hilarious band of intrepid travellers if you’ve recently been smurfing the internet. Scores of Hartlepool United fans dressed as Smurf comic strip characters on a day trip to London have become an online sensation. The supporters – in white overalls, blue tops, white beards, blue faces and white hats – [...More...]
Supernova 1987A was the closest exploding star seen in modern times. It occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits our own Milky Way. Images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were combined to make this composite of the blast's expanding debris. Credit: NASA / ESA / P. Challis and R. [...More...]
The editors of all 19 editions of Vogue around the world pledged Thursday to use only healthy models no younger than 16 on their editorial pages in an attempt to shift fashion’s approach to body image. Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue’s flagship US edition, and Emmanuelle Alt of Paris Vogue, which touched off a [...More...]
Photo courtesy of NASA A full moon this weekend is set to be the biggest of this year, earning itself ‘supermoon’ status. This month’s full moon will officially happen this Saturday at 11.35pm. It coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth, known as its perigee, which will bring it to 221,802 miles away, [...More...]
When it comes to kindness or helping a stranger, atheists and agnostics fare much better than their highly religious counterparts. The findings challenge a widespread assumption that acts of generosity and charity are largely the outcome of religious sentiments. In three experiments, social scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, found that compassion consistently [...More...]
Schematic illustration of Earth's magnetic field. Credit: Peter Reid, The University of Edinburgh Scientists understand that Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. In other words, if you were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing what we call north with a magnetic compass in your hand, the [...More...]
Mysterious yellow-green cloud loomng over the city of Moscow, Russia puzzled residents as Friday is the anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Ukraine. Green dust clouds moved in from the south-west. But officials say that given the time of year and the atmospheric conditions, the mysterious green cloud is actually a cloud [...More...]
ExxonMobil Corp. says it is cleaning up about 80,000 gallons of oil that spilled from a pipeline in rural Pointe Coupee Parish, northwest of Baton Rouge. The company says the pipeline was shut down Saturday night after a loss of pressure. The spilled oil was discovered on Sunday. No injuries have been reported. The [...More...]
Last month, Bob Dechert, a senior aide to Canada's foreign minister, was dispatched to Detroit, Michigan with an important diplomatic mission: To stop a highly annoying noise. The so-called Windsor hum, described as a low-frequency rumbling sound, has rattled windows and knocked objects off shelves in border communities just across the Detroit River from [...More...]
A toddler was rescued by a fire fighter after falling 20 feet down a storm drain, and it wasn't the truck's strongest or biggest member who brought the boy to safety. The smallest person in the East Point Fire Department, Rosa Tullis, was the 4 foot 11 inch hero on Sunday. Darnell Brown, 1, was [...More...]
A new school desk has been designed to protect students during an earthquake by absorbing the impact of falling concrete and steel weighing up to one ton. Anyone who has been through earthquake drills in school knows the standard defense against falling debris is for students to crawl under their desks. Unfortunately, while [...More...]
Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won't be the end of the world as we know. It will, however, be another winter solstice. Much like Y2K, 2012 has been analyzed [...More...]