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Google users warned of threat to smartphone wallets

Users of Google smartphone wallets were being warned on Friday that there is a way to crack pass codes intended to thwart thieves from going on illicit shopping sprees.

Technology / Internet

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Complication in first triple limb transplant

(AP) -- A Turkish doctor whose 25-member team performed the world's first triple limb transplant - two arms and a leg - says the leg has been removed due to tissue incompatibility. ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The night after Christmas sky show

T'was the Night after Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The 2011 Geminid meteor shower

The 2011 Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, and despite the glare of a nearly-full Moon, it might be a good show.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Saturday's Draconid meteors may be no-see-ums

(AP) -- Heads-up, meteor fans. As many as 750 meteors an hour are expected Saturday, as Earth travels through streams of dust and ice from Comet Giacobini-Zinner. The comet passes through the inner solar ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Herschel paints new story of galaxy evolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that galaxies do not need to collide with each other to drive vigorous star birth. The finding overturns this long-held assumption ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

The full moon indicates impending danger from lion attack

Be sure to check the sky if you ever set out for a nighttime stroll in southeastern Tanzania. If the moon is full, continue. But if the sky is dark, turn back – or you may be a lion's dinner.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Total lunar eclipse next week, not visible in US

(AP) -- The year's first total eclipse of the moon will last an unusually long time, a rare celestial treat for a wide swath of the globe.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Victim of chimp attack gets a full face transplant

(AP) -- A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee gone berserk has received a new face in the third such operation performed in the U.S. and is looking forward to going out in public again and eating hot ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Full face transplant patient makes 1st appearance

(AP) -- The nation's first full face transplant recipient said the first thing his young daughter told him when she saw him after the operation was "Daddy, you're so handsome."

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Texas man gets first full face transplant in US

(AP) -- A Texas construction worker horribly disfigured in a power line accident has undergone the nation's first full face transplant in hopes of smiling again and feeling kisses from his 3-year-old daughter.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Image: Super Perigee Moon

(PhysOrg.com) -- The full moon is seen as it rises near the Lincoln Memorial, Saturday, March 19, 2011, in Washington.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Super full moon

Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Solstice lunar eclipse set for December 21st

Everyone knows that "the moon on the breast of new-fallen snow gives the luster of mid-day to objects below." That is, except during a lunar eclipse.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday

The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the two to three hours before dawn on Nov. 17 and 18, according to the editors of StarDate magazine.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2