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Washington Redskins sign RB Pierre Thomas, place DE Stephen Paea on IR
The Sports Xchange The Washington Redskins signed running back Pierre Thomas and placed defensive end Stephen Paea on injured reserve Friday.
Monster Black Hole Eats Star, Returns Leftovers
A supermassive black hole anchoring the center of a nearby galaxy has been caught in a rarely seen double act: ripping apart a nearby sun-size star and shooting out jets...
Patriots, Texans on Dec. 13 moved to night start
The Sports Xchange The NFL announced Sunday that it is moving the New England Patriots' Dec. 13 game at the Houston Texans to "Sunday Night Football."
Japan launches first commercial satellite
Elizabeth ShimTOKYO, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Japan launched a telecommunications satellite by rocket on Tuesday.
Mars May Become a Ringed Planet Someday
Mars may one day have rings like Saturn's, if the Red Planet manages to completely crush its innermost moon, Phobos.
Dark Matter 'Hairs' May Surround Earth
Computer simulations suggest that filaments of invisible dark matter form long "hairs" when they go through planets such as Earth.
Getting under the skin of a medieval mystery
A simple PVC eraser has helped an international team of scientists led by bioarchaeologists to resolve the mystery surrounding the tissue-thin parchment used by medieval scribes to produce the first...
Earth not due for a geomagnetic flip in the near future
The intensity of Earth’s geomagnetic field has been dropping for the past 200 years, at a rate that some scientists suspect may cause the field to bottom out in 2,000...
Could Mars Someday Have Rings Like Saturn?
Mars may one day have rings similar to Saturn's famous halo, new research suggests.
ESA issues call for new Earth Explorer proposals
ESA is announcing an opportunity for scientists involved in Earth observation to submit proposals for the next potential Earth Explorer satellite mission.
NEOWISE identifies greenhouse gases in comets
After its launch in 2009, NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft observed 163 comets during the WISE/NEOWISE prime mission. This sample from the space telescope represents the largest infrared survey of comets to...
Spurs beat Suns, stay perfect at home
By Steve Habel, The Sports Xchange SAN ANTONIO -- Christmas might still be a month away but the San Antonio Spurs and Phoenix Suns are already in a giving mood.
New Desalination Method Shocks The Salts Out Of Water
Environment: Prototype device uses electrodialysis to produce freshwater
The Kip Thorne Award: Your Vote Wanted for the Best Science on Film
"The Martian," which stars Matt Damon as a NASA astronaut stranded and presumed dead on the Red Planet, is up for Raw Science's 2015 Kip Thorne Gravity Award for the...
Report: African-Americans still underrepresented in the physical sciences
African-American students remain underrepresented in physical science and engineering disciplines, according to a new report from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Statistical Research Center (SRC).
London man wins trip to space at One Young World conference
Daniel UriaBANGKOK, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Twenty-four-year-old Hussain Manawer was awarded the chance to travel to space in 2018 as the winner of One Young World's Rising Star award.
Google receives Light or Dark Side 'Star Wars' makeover
Wade SheridanMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 23 (UPI) -- With "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" only weeks away, Google has joined forces with Disney to launch a new tool that gives...
North Korea says a literary child prodigy is born
Elizabeth ShimSEOUL, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- North Korea state media reported a 7-year-old literary prodigy has composed 300 poems of artistic merit, and that even leader Kim Jong Un is...
Rockers Coheed and Cambria Explore Space Tech at NASA JSC: Gallery
Coheed and Cambria’s music often plays upon space themes. Claudio Sanchez, Travis Stever, Josh Eppard and Zach Cooper’s private tour of NASA Johnson Space Center by astronaut Mike Foreman discovered...
Ultrastable materials investigated in depth
Thermal expansion has now been measured at low temperatures for future space missions. The results of the project are of importance for further space missions that have already been planned,...
Refugees sew mouths closed to protest Macedonia's border policy
Ed AdamczykSKOPJE, Macedonia, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Several refugees sewed their mouths closed at the Macedonia-Greece border to protest Macedonia's new refugee policy.
Nasa develop ‘chemical laptop’ for on-the-go analysis
Portable laboratory can search for molecules associated with life
Memphis neighborhood taken over by millions of spiders
Brooks HaysNORTH MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A suburban neighborhood in North Memphis, Tennessee, became overrun with spiders over the weekend.
Orion's Belt Holds More Than 3 Stars | Video
The western most star in the Orion constellation 'belt' – known as Mintaka (‘the belt’ in Arabic) also called Delta Orionis by astronomers – is a triple star system +...
Al Roker says he was passed up by a NYC taxi for being black
Wade SheridanNEW YORK, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- "Today Show" weatherman Al Roker has taken to social media to slam a NYC cabbie for passing him up for being black.
Angry Red Dwarf Star Would Probably Prevent Life | Animation
35 light-years out, in the constellation Boötes, a star smaller and cooler than our Sun blasts 95GHz flare emissions 10,000x brighter than our star.
Scientists detect stellar streams around Magellanic Clouds
(Phys.org)—Astronomers from the University of Cambridge, U.K., have detected a number of narrow streams and diffuse debris clouds around two nearby irregular dwarf galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds. The research...
Colorado deputies tackle 'agitated' cow on the interstate
Ben HooperGOLDEN, Colo., Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A Colorado sheriff's office shared pictures of deputies engaged in a "standoff" with an agitated cow that blocked traffic before being tackled by...