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  • Israel stunned by Hawking snub Israel stunned by Hawking snub

    It is an event "of cosmic proportions", said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by the Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor, on May 8. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmologist and physicist. His scientific work had ...

  • Wireless signals can stunt plant growth

    A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders has gained worldwide interest, after they showed that wireless signals can stunt plant growth. Five girls from Hjallerup Skole, a primary education school in Denmark, began the experiment after noticing that when they slept with their cellphones near their heads overnight, they had trouble focusing the next day, according to Danish News site ...

  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • Russia plans four spacecraft launches in 2014

    Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch programme, an official said. Corporation president Vitaly Lopota said that after 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year. Next year's launches will be the first since one of Sea Launch's Zenit vehicles carrying an Intelsat-27 ...

  • Roaches evolving to evade traps scientists say

    (Fotolia) A strain of cockroaches in Europe has evolved to outsmart the sugar traps used to kill them, researchers have discovered. According to the BBC, American scientists found that the mutant cockroaches had a "reorganized" sense of taste, making them perceive the glucose used to coat poisoned bait not as sweet but rather as bitter. A North Carolina State University team tested ...


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The Sum of All Fears

Roughly halfway through The Sum of All Fears, the worst thing imaginable happens: A small nuclear weapon placed by terrorists explodes in a major American city, killing tens of thousands of people and decimating a mile-wide area. During the Cold War era, the fear was that a massive nuclear strike would be launched against the U.S. by the Soviet Union, resulting in an unwinnable war that wo ... ...

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  • Rescue operation for Canadian in Australian Alps continues

    Rescue Crew Officer Luke Ashford uses a thermal imaging camera to search for a missing Canadian man in the Snowy Mountains in Australia's Kosciuszko National Park (Westpac Life Saver Helicopter/QMI ...

  • Self-aiming rifle turns novices into expert snipers

    First time firing a gun? There's help at hand - a new "self-aiming" rifle can help even a novice hit the target at long range on the first go. But the technology has its critics, who see it as a serious threat to public ...

  • NDPs support of Wynnes budget is just a one-off Horwath

    PETERBOROUGH -- The NDP’s support for the Liberals’ provincial budget is a one-off and not the start of an alliance designed to last through to the next scheduled election in October 2015, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Friday. In an interview with QMI Agency, Horwath said her party’s support for the budget "absolutely" does not equate to a coalition government. ...

  • New frontiers new risks How safe is space tourism

    When choosing between two evils, Mae West quipped that she always picked the one she’d never tried before. Had the actress been ovulating at the time, however, a new study suggests she’d ...

  • Stem-cell treatment restores sight to blind man

    An experimental stem-cell treatment has restored the sight of a man blinded by the degeneration of his retinal cells. The man, who is taking part in a trial examining the safety of using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to reverse two common causes of blindness, can now see well enough to be allowed to ...

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