Category: Remainder

A neu­tron star has been clocked trav­el­ling at more than 1500 kilo­me­tres per sec­ond. It joins the ranks of oth­er fast mov­ing neu­tron stars, deep­en­ing the puz­zle over how these dense stel­lar corpses are accel­er­at­ed to such aston­ish­ing velocities.

Antarc­ti­ca weath­er ‘hind­cast’ could spell bad news for sea-lev­el rise as as snow­fall lev­els are less than those pre­dict­ed by cli­mate models.

The idea of off­set­ting car­bon emis­sions is sound in the­o­ry, if not yet in practice.

MIT is spear­head­ing an ambi­tious effort to devel­op a raft of green tech­nolo­gies, includ­ing lap­top-pow­ered hybrids and plas­ma-charged tur­bo engines.

Peo­ple in the Unit­ed States are much less like­ly to accept Dar­win’s idea that humans evolved from apes than adults in oth­er West­ern nations, a num­ber of sur­veys show.

Experts turn to old note­books and pho­tos to press home glob­al warm­ing message.

Should med­ical researchers be allowed to cre­ate human-ani­mal hybrids to inves­ti­gate dis­ease? No, says an ethics think tank that advis­es the Scot­tish Par­lia­ment. Yes, says Ian Wilmut of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh, cre­ator of Dol­ly the cloned sheep.

Offi­cials in charge of the Woodrow Wil­son Bridge Replace­ment in Wash­ing­ton, DC are hold­ing a writ­ing con­test to see who will get to push the but­ton for demolosh­ing the old bridge. The per­son who had the worst com­mute will win.

The world’s sec­ond largest ice cap may be melt­ing three times faster than indi­cat­ed by pre­vi­ous mea­sure­ments, accord­ing to new­ly released grav­i­ty data col­lect­ed by satellites.

Major League Base­ball strikes out in a case that looked at whether inde­pen­dent fan­ta­sy sports sites could freely use sta­tis­tics and oth­er play­er data.
Fan­ta­sy sports are now a multi­bil­lion-dol­lar indus­try, thanks in no small part to the Internet.