New Views On The Sun’s Startling Magnetic Fountains

Astronomers have known for decades that the Sun has a very dynamic atmosphere.

Mercury’s Magnetosphere Fends Off Solar Wind

The planet Mercury‘s magnetic field appears to be strong enough to fend off the harsh solar wind from most of its surface, according to data gathered in part by a University of Michigan instrument onboard NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft.

Scientists Discover 356 Animal Inclusions Trapped In Opaque Amber 100 Million Years Old

Paleontologists from the University of Rennes (France) and the ESRF have found the presence of 356 animal inclusions in completely opaque amber from mid-Cretaceous sites of Charentes (France).

Discovery Of Oldest Known Traces Of Mineralization Caused By Micro-organisms

An old controversy has finally been laid to rest. Stromatolites, cauliflower-shaped carbonate rocks that are found in abundance in geological formations, including ones that are several billion years old, show definite evidence of ancient biological activity.

Source Of Solar Wind Discovered

ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2008) — An international team of scientists have found the source of the stream of particles that make up the solar wind. In a presentation on Wednesday 2 April at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2008) in Belfast, Professor Louise Harra of the UCL-Mullard Space Science Laboratory will explain how astronomers

‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin’s father quits zoo

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — The father of late television star Steve Irwin said he quit the family’s Australian conservation park because he had become a “disrupting influence,” although the widow of the khaki-clad “Crocodile Hunter” denies a rift in the clan.

Steve Irwin is pictured in a typical pose at Australia Zoo shortly before his death in 2006.

Seinfeld unhurt after rollover car wreck

Brakes on one of comedian’s vintage cars failed, causing Hamptons crash

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. – Jerry Seinfeld was in a harrowing rollover wreck but was unhurt after the brakes on one of his vintage cars failed.

‘Blueberry Nights’: Wong Kar-Wai’s bad apple

One of the world’s greatest directors concocts a disastrous romantic drama

Tiniest singer sent packing on ‘Idol’

Ramiele Malubay was one of the more likeable of the “Idol” finalists. The youngest of the women remaining in the competition, she was always smiling on the video clips that preceded her performances,and

Mobile phone

The mobile phone or mobile, also called a wireless, cellular phone, cell phone, cell speaker box, or hand phone (HP),^[1] is a long-range, portable electronic device used for mobile communication that uses a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites.