PERHAPS the little fish embryo shown here is dancing a jig because it has just discovered that it has legs instead of fins. Fossils show that limbs evolved from fins, but a new study shows how it may have happened, live in the lab. ...
Cautious Obama faces gun control pressure after school shooting
Labels: Technology WASHINGTON: The latest mass shooting in the United States - this time with 20 children among the dead - is triggering a deluge of calls for President Barack Obama to address gun control, a politically sensitive issue which he avoided during his first term in the White House.With the nation in shock over the carnage on Friday, Obama went on television and wiped away tears as he mourned...
The victims
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Conn. dad recalls loving, creative 6-year-old
Labels: Health NEWTOWN, Conn. Fighting back tears and struggling to catch his breath, the father of a 6-year-old gunned down in Friday's school shooting in Connecticut told the world about a little girl who loved to draw and was always smiling, and he also reserved surprising words of sympathy for the gunman. Robbie Parker's daughter Emilie was among the 20 children who died in the one of the worst attacks on...
Conn. Victim's Father Remembers 'Loving' Daughter
Labels: Business (Image credit: Emilie Parker Fund/Facebook)Emilie Parker, the little girl with the blond hair and bright blue eyes, would have been one of the first to comfort her classmates at Sandy Hook Elementary School, had a gunman’s bullets not claimed her life, her father said.“My daughter Emilie would be one of the first ones to be standing and giving support to all the victims because that’s the kind...
Dec
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CERN becomes first pure physics voice in UN chorus
Labels: World 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...
US Dollar falls as fiscal cliff worries grow
Labels: Technology NEW YORK: The US dollar dropped to its lowest level against the euro in three months Friday, the euro going above US$1.31 as politicians in Washington appeared no closer to averting the economy-crunching fiscal cliff.With just over two weeks to go before the deadline, markets began to show strains from worries that US leaders will not be able to carve out a compromise deal to beat the...
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...
Conn. Shooter Adam Lanza; 'Obviously Not Well'
Labels: Business Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut this morning, was "obviously not well," a relative told ABC News.Family friends in Newtown also described the young man as troubled and described his mother Nancy as very rigid. "[Adam] was not connected with the other kids," said one friend.Late today, police...
Dec
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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...
EU leaders upbeat on euro future after deal on banks, Greece
Labels: Technology BRUSSELS: EU leaders debated the euro's future in a bullish mood Thursday after deals on banks and Greece, despite fears that political uncertainty in Italy could cause new worries for the single currency.As video showed the bloc's 27 leaders smiling and joking with each other at the beginning of a two-day summit, EU President Herman Van Rompuy said leaders should aim to cap a triumphant...
'Lines of communication remain open' about fiscal cliff
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Like Boehner's office, the White House describes the meeting as "frank" "Lines of communication remain open," both sides sayBoehner says "spending is the problem;" Democrats say the rich should pay more Stocks fall amid uncertainty about the political impasse over the fiscal cliff Washington (CNN) -- Facing a looming deadline to avoid the fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama and...
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 Mayan 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...
Dec
12
UK government urged to consider relaxing drug rules
Labels: World JUST say yes to considering relaxed drug controls, urged a panel of UK parliamentarians this week - but Prime Minister David Cameron has rejected the calls. Many countries have loosened their penalties for drug use, including the Czech Republic and Portugal, which...
Clashes as Argentines outraged by sex slavery case
Labels: Technology BUENOS AIRES: Angry Argentines clashed with police and smashed windows and politicians voiced outrage on Wednesday after a court acquitted 13 people charged with running a sex slavery ring.Demonstrators furious over the legal ruling took to the streets of the capital and in at least seven provinces, including Tucuman in the north, where a court announced the acquittal Tuesday.Susana Trimarco,...
Mall gunman: 'I have lived one crazy life so far'
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSJacob 'Jake' Roberts uses edgy, dark humor on his Facebook page'I'm an alcoholic... Lol just kidding,' he wrote in his introductionHe wanted to become a firefighter and was taking classes, one friend saysRoberts loved working at a Portland gyro eatery, he wrote on his Facebook page(CNN) -- Intended or not, the central image on the Facebook page of Jacob "Jake" Roberts, the Oregon shopping...
Semi-subs become vehicles of choice for drug smugglers
Labels: Health (CBS News) CHARLESTON, S.C. - Under a shed is Bigfoot Two -- a 60-foot semi-submarine captured by the U.S. Coast Guard in the Caribbean in 2008. It cost just $2 million to build but was carrying $150 million in cocaine. Under a shed is Bigfoot Two -- a 60 foot semi-submarine captured by the U.S. Coast Guard in the Caribbean in 2008. It cost just $2 million to build but was carrying $150 million...
Mall Shooter Quit Job, Was Going to Hawaii
Labels: Business In the days before he stole a semiautomatic weapon and stormed into an Oregon shopping mall, killing two people in a shooting spree, Jacob Roberts quit his job, sold his belongings and began to seem "numb" to those closest to him.Roberts' ex-girlfriend, Hannah Patricia Sansburn, 20, told ABC News today that the man who donned a hockey mask and opened fire on Christmas shoppers...
Dec
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Today on New Scientist: 11 December 2012
Labels: World Out-of-season's greetings from the Arctic frost flowers Season's regards from an icy meadow in the Arctic, but it's no winter wonderland and please don't dash out into itHow hacking a mosquito's heart could eradicate malaria Watch how a double-pronged trick helps mosquitoes remain healthy while carrying disease, a process that could be exploited to eliminate malariaNew drug lifts hard-to-treat...
Freezing fog grounds British flights
Labels: Technology LONDON: Severe fog has forced the cancellation of dozens of flights scheduled to take-off and land at Britain's airports on Wednesday with more disruption expected later in the day.Flights to Warsaw, Nice, Stockholm, Aberdeen and several German cities were among 20 cancelled by London's Heathrow."It's better to cancel flights when there's fog because in fog you can't land as many planes...
Several people shot at Oregon mall
Labels: LifestyleBy Michael Martinez and Cristy Lenzupdated 7:41 PM EST, Tue December 11, 2012STORY HIGHLIGHTSA gunman is firing at the Clackamas Town Center outside Portland"Multiple victims" have been shot, authorities sayThe mall is 11 milles southeast of downtown Portland (CNN) -- A gunman is actively firing at the Clackamas Town Center mall in Clackamas, Oregon, authorities said Tuesday."Multiple victims" have...
Two reportedly shot dead in suburban Ore. mall
Labels: Health The scene outside the Clackamas Town Center in suburban Portland, Ore., on Dec. 11, 2012. / KOIN-TV Updated 7:36 p.m. ET PORTLAND, Ore. Emergency dispatchers in Portland, Ore., are receiving reports that a man with a rifle reportedly fired as many as 20 shots inside a shopping mall. The Oregonian reports two people were killed and at least one other was shot by a man brandishing a semiautomatic...
Obama Recognizes Syrian Opposition Group
Labels: Business In a diplomatic shift, President Obama said today his administration now formally recognizes the newly-formed, leading coalition of Syrian rebels who are fighting to topple Syria's embattled President Bashar Assad."We've made a decision that the Syrian Opposition Coalition is now inclusive enough, is reflective and representative enough of the Syrian population that we consider...
Dec
10
Doha summit launches climate damage aid
Labels: World The latest summit to stop climate change, held in Doha, Qatar, over the past two weeks has been roundly slammed. Little was agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and the latest modelling, carried out by the Climate Action Tracker consortium shows global averages temperatures are still set to rise by at least...
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