Lisa Grossman, physical sciences reporter(Image: UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras)If CERN observes the proceedings of the United Nations, will it change the outcome?The international particle physics laboratory, based near Geneva, Switzerland, has been granted observer status in the General Assembly of the United Nations, CERN officials announced today. The lab joins environmental groups and public...
"Private" memorials for Ravi Shankar in US, India
Labels: Technology LOS ANGELES: Private memorials will be held in India and California for legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, a publicist said, after his death earlier this week.Concerts to celebrate the 92-year-old's life will be held next year in New York and London, he added, giving no further details about funeral or other arrangements."Memorial services will be held near his homes in Southern...
Pearlman: I think Bobby Petrino is slime
Labels: LifestyleBobby Petrino was named head coach at Western Kentucky, months after being embroiled in scandal at University of ArkansasSTORY HIGHLIGHTSBobby Petrino was named the new football coach at Western Kentucky this weekHiring came just months after he was fired from Arkansas amid scandalJeff Pearlman says, sadly, this is no surprise in big-time college sportsHe says the vast majority of players are ultimately...
Conn. gunman sought to kill as many children as possible
Labels: Health (CBS News) NEWTOWN, Conn. - Police say it's clear that the gunman who opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday was on a mission to kill as many people as possible. He took at least three guns and multiple clips of ammunition to target a defenseless elementary school and children as young as five. Police say 20-year-old Adam Lanza was armed for a mass murder when he attacked a target he...
20 Children Killed at Conn. Grade School, 7 Adults
Labels: Business Twenty children died today when a heavily armed man invaded a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and sprayed staff and students with bullets.The gunman, identified as Adam Lanza, 20, was found dead in the school.Lt. Paul Vance said 18 children died in the school and two more died later in a hospital. Six adults were also slain, bringing the total to 26.In addition to the casualties...
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Today on New Scientist: 13 December 2012
Labels: World Violent beauty at the end of an Alaskan glacier You can almost hear the crash of ice on water in this stunning image of an ice sheet calving off the Chenega glacier in AlaskaOvereating now bigger global problem than lack of food The most comprehensive disease report ever produced confirms that, for the first time, there is a larger health problem from people eating too much than too littleIn...
N Korea holds mass rally, vows more rocket launches
Labels: Technology SEOUL: Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans held a mass rally on Friday to celebrate the nuclear-armed state's rocket launch, as its youthful leader vowed new launches.Days before his first anniversary in charge of the isolated country, Kim Jong-Un upheld North Korea's "unshakable stand" that the rocket programme will continue despite UN condemnation and calls for new sanctions.The huge...
Susan RIce: My withdrawal better for the country
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Rice "would have been very honored to serve in that job," she says in interview Susan Rice withdraws from consideration as secretary of stateNomination would be "be lengthy, disruptive, and costly," she says in letter to presidentRepublican critics "respect" Rice's decision, vow to continue Benghazi inquiry(CNN) -- Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who drew...
Donation-based hospital rescues Afghanistan's wounded
Labels: Health (CBS News) KABUL - In Afghanistan, an American soldier and two Afghans were killed by a car bomb Thursday. It happened near the U.S. airbase in Kandahar, a few hours after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta left there to meet with Afghan President Karzai. Taliban attacks have grown more frequent, causing a sharp rise in civilian casualties. There's one place where many of those lives are saved or lost....
NASA Debunks Maya Doom, 10 Days Early
Labels: Business Dec 13, 2012 2:57pm Kukulkan pyramid, Yucatan, Mexico. Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty.We’ll never know if they were wrong.NASA has quietly published a web video explaining why the world did not come to an end “yesterday,” Dec. 21, 2012.The date of its release, December 11, was no mistake, even if doomsayers would likely call it one last act of earthly hubris. NASA uploaded...
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