Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said that the Perseids meteor shower will be best seen tonight, but cloudy atmosphere in some areas of the United States could obstruct the view. NASA predicted some 80 meteors coming down every hour. The best time to look up into the skies to see nature’s light [...]
Celebrating its 23rd anniversary this Sunday, Discovery Channel’s Shark Week premieres with “Ultimate Air Jaws” at 9 PM. Since the show started in 1987, it has been quite successful. The last three Shark Weeks had the most number of viewers, with an average viewership of 27.6 million, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. Ultimate [...]
People doing work in Jim Leyden’s backyard for a new swimming pool found something they didn’t expect — prehistoric fossils. “My wife called and said, ‘You’re not going to believe it… They found a dinosaur,” Leyden told a TV crew. Eight feet under Leyden’shouse in Brighton, Tennessee were found bones of what is possibly a [...]
A phenomenon that can be explained as being an optical illusion will make the moon much larger in the United States of America during Saturday’s partial lunar eclipse. Fifty percent of the diameter of the moon will be blocked out by the shadow of the earth beginning at 10.17 GMT (3.17am PDT). It will not [...]
If you are into wormholes, gas-giant-inhabiting aliens, and time travel, this show is for you. Discovery Channel finally launches its new program Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking tonight. The four-part miniseries starts at 9 PM Eastern and Pacific Time. The first segment is entitled Aliens. At 10 PM will follow Time Travel. [via wired.com; [...]
A giant isopod was discovered recently when it attached itself to a submarine. The discovery of the giant isopod was immediately posted to social bookmarking site Reddit by a deep-sea technician who is looking for answers. “I work for a Sub-sea Survey Company, recently this beast came up attached to one of our ROVs. It [...]
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest machine worth $9.4 billion, successfully slammed sub-atomic particles together on Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC was created to study beam particles slamming into each other and to recreate the Big Bang theory and hope to find out how the universe came to be. “It just shows what we [...]
Hundreds of people and animals were evacuated from a village in the south of Iceland after a volcano blew up near a glacier. Ash and molten lava shot upwards. No injury or damage were reported but the government declared a state of emergency in places near the Eyjafjallajokull glacier. Volcanologists said they fear the volcanic [...]
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