The central Asian nation of Turkmenistan has cemented its reputation for eccentricity with an ambitious attempt to create a vast lake in the centre of the country’s Karakum desert. In a logic-defying feat that might have appealed to Stalin, engineers have begun pumping water from a network of canals that irrigate cotton fields across the country.
Read the story »It wasn’t a young president’s brash promise that enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to take those first halting steps on the lunar surface 40 years ago Monday. Nor was it the courage of the astronauts themselves.
Read the story »Mandela turns 91 on July 18, which his charity foundations are marking with the first annual “Mandela Day.” Organizers want the world to celebrate it by doing good.
Read the story »After building an empire based on caffeine, Starbucks is mixing it up and giving beer and wine a shot.
Read the story »JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A man suspected of burglarizing a northwest Jacksonville home Thursday morning runs into a Wal-Mart, changes into some clothes off the rack and disappears into a crowd of shoppers while police searched the store. Thursday, July 16, 2009.
Read the story »Biologists have found microbes that live in the hottest, coldest, driest and most unpleasant places on Earth. A lowly creature could be a model for Mars life.
Read the story »Forty years after the legendary festival in Bethel, N.Y., a photo of two lovebirds taken at Woodstock has become an iconic symbol of love. To the surprise of Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, both now 60 and still together, the image became the cover of the ‘Woodstock’ album in 1970.
Read the story »Look at it – staring you down so innocently, yet I know that your Linksys wireless router refuses to give you signal. Since you decided to place it in a corner to gather dust, using it only for its relay capabilities, it has decided to constantly bring up the feared “Limited Network Connection” bubble. Don’t you just hate those?
Read the story »The flatworm is just the latest in an expanding list of sequenced genomes that now includes the human, the fruit fly, the mouse, the cat, the duck-billed platypus, various bacteria, and hundreds of other species. How do scientists decide which genome to sequence next? They follow the money.
Read the story »This rapid evolution of the Y chromosome has led to a dramatic loss of genes on the Y chromosome at a rate that, if maintained, eventually could lead to the Y chromosome’s complete disappearance.
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