strangest thing I have ever experienced as a professional diver.” The soot also proved cause for concern for Peter Lindberg’s colleague on the Ocean X explorer team, Stefan Hogeborn. “During my 20-year diving career, including 6,000 dives, I have never seen anything like this. Normally stones don’t burn,” Stefan Hogeborn said in the release. “I can’t explain what we saw, and I went down the…
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a dark, planet-sized Death Star-like object flying close to the sun on Monday. The black Jupiter-sized orb is briefly engulfed in light from the sun, then flies off into space. A video edited from the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s photos inspired a wave of speculation on YouTube. The imagery was captured by NASA’s space telescope and edited toge…
Researchers from Austin, Texas, have “cloaked” a 3-D object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time. However, the demonstration works only for waves in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The demonstration uses a shell of what are known as plasmonic materials; they present a “photo negative” of the object being cloaked, effectively cancel…
…d, prior to the photographs being shown which featured her with her dog and with her husband. Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchinson, who shot to fame after tying the knot back in May when she was just 16-years-old and the actor 50, also discuss their recent removal from a local pumpkin patch due to her revealing attire Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchinson, who shot to fame after tying the knot bac…
t we had to investigate all this first”. Earlier this year Britain and the rest of the world was put on alert when one of NASA’s satellites broke up and crashed to Earth. Huge chunks of titanium up to 350lbs from car-sized Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite tore through the atmosphere at 1,800 mph but the best NASA could guess was that they landed somewhere south of Inverness on the equator. To t…
…The study also updates a distance estimate for a seventh galaxy, placing it further back in time than any object previously identified. Called UDFj-39546284, this is seen when the cosmos was less than 3% of its current age. The new Hubble telescope investigation was led by Richard Ellis from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and colleagues at Edinburgh University, Jim Dunlop and Ros…
…uses on tracking human figures and then looking for objects that have changed position in their vicinity. Although the Kinect sensor’s capabilities are limited – it only sees objects up to 11 feet (3.4 m) away and only provides “skeleton data” at 15 frames/second – the Kinsight program has commonsense notions built into it to improve accuracy: so it knows that a coffe…
…ace in detail, scientists are describing it as “transitional”. The Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting Vesta – one of the Solar System’s most primitive objects – since July 2011. They have documented many unexpected features on its battered surface. Mission scientists presented their latest results at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, T…
YouTube user “rob19791”claims he has found proof that NASA is covering up evidence of aliens because the agency’s spacecraft that monitors the Sun went offline after he spotted a “UFO” on its video feed. On May 5, “rob19791” posted a YouTube video of a mysterious-looking “object” hovering near the sun. The footage was taken from video that the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory beamed back…
…r actions. An insider has claimed that Kim Kardashian decided against press charges that night because she didn’t want to take herself away from the event, which was for charity. Kim Kardashian, 31, will go to the police in the next few days to inform them formally of her decision to press charges. The reality star wants to send the message people are entitled to their opinion, but should no…
Reality star Kim Kardashian was attacked with flour on the red carpet at her own perfume launch in West Hollywood. Kim Kardashian, 31, was covered in flour after an unidentified Asian woman pelted her at the launch of True Reflection at The London Hotel in West Hollywood. The reality star arrived dressed-to-the-nines, wearing a black blazer, leather trousers and a bright blue blouse, but within m…
ocial Democrats, finished first and second in the first round on 14 October. PM Andrius Kubilius’ governing conservatives, unpopular for cutting pensions and public wages, came third. Having won 34 seats in the first round, Labour and the Social Democrats hope to win enough of the 67 seats available on Sunday to allow them to form a coalition government. Lithuania’s 3.3 million inhabit…
…ic boom fuelled by cheap Scandinavian loans until the 2008 world financial crisis. That crisis saw economic output drop by 15%, unemployment climb and thousands of young people in the Baltic nation of 3.3 million emigrate in search of work. Under Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius’s coalition government, GDP grew by 5.8% last year – one of the fastest rates of any EU economy – and t…
…e, South Korea briefly placed a border military unit on its highest alert. South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye spoke in Daejeon, where the 46 sailors who died when the Cheonan warship sank on 26 March 2010 are buried The alert happened early on Wednesday after a South Korean soldier discovered a “strange object” at the border, military officials said. The alert prepares troops…
orbit; the US confirmed an object had been put into space. South Korea, the US and Japan have condemned the launch as a disguised test of long-range missile technology. A UN resolution passed in June 2009 after North Korea’s second nuclear test banned Pyongyang from ballistic missile tests. The US called it a “highly provocative act that threatens regional security”, while UN Se…
Beatles, the world’s most famous band once refused to use a toilet roll while recording their Abbey Road album, because they thought it was too “hard and shiny”. The rock legends rejected the roll during the 1960s as it also had EMI stamped on every sheet. The object came to light after Beatles fan Barry Thomas snapped up the toilet roll at an auction complete with a letter from EMI manager…
A new world speed record for creation of a 3D-printed nano-object has been claimed by researchers at Vienna University of Technology in Austria. The Austrian team is able to create sculptures as small as a grain of sand in a fraction of the time than had previously been required. To demonstrate the process the group created a model of a Formula 1 racing car 0.285 mm (0.011in) in length in just ov…
…shown how to pull off the trick flawlessly. However, the illusion only works from one direction and would be difficult to achieve with visible light. The idea of invisibility cloaking got its start in 2006 when John Pendry of Imperial College London and David Schurig and David Smith of Duke University laid out the theory of “transformation optics” in a paper in Science, demonstrating i…
…is that survives re-entry will land in the United States.” The falling satellite is one of the thousands of objects in Earth orbit being tracked by NASA The space agency says there is a one in 3,200 chance the falling satellite will hit someone. The satellite, which has six tons, is being tracked by all available equipment including a giant radar at RAF Fylingdales on the North York Moors…
…s expect them to begin to merge in about four billion years' time It has long been known that the two galaxies have been heading in the general direction of each other. They are separated by about 2.5 million light-years, but are converging at something like 400,000 km/h (250,000 mph). The new Hubble data provides fresh insight on when and how a union is likely to unfold. This is possible beca…
Curiosity rover is getting ready to zap its first Martian rock. A small stone lying just to the side of the vehicle at its landing site on the floor of Gale Crater has been selected as a test target for the ChemCam laser. The brief but powerful burst of light from this instrument will vaporize the surface of the rock, revealing details of its basic chemistry. Dubbed N165, the object is not expect…
…in a bottle – a Molotov cocktail – and set Delores Gillespie on fire, according to New York police. The horrifying attack lasted a minute and was caught on two surveillance cameras at the 203 Underhill Avenue apartment block. Delores Gillespie, who had just returned from grocery shopping, turned and crouched in an attempt to protect herself, according to police. But the man, who was w…
he sea with a boat. “At around 11pm they took me towards the hotel. They were armed and forced me to show them the way.” Kololo admitted he had directed the gang to the Kiwayu hotel, which lies around 30 miles from Somalia. But he told the court that at that stage he did not know the Tebbutts had checked into the resort and said he neither entered the couple’s cottage nor heard the fatal gun…
g at 03:50 telling me that they had already been released.” The Chinese fishing crew seized by North Koreans two weeks ago has been freed along with their boat Last year, in a similar incident, 29 Chinese fishermen and three vessels were seized by unidentified North Koreans. They were freed after two weeks and it was not clear whether a ransom had been paid, nor whether the captors had been…
…s of the conversation which purportedly took place on Friday night. The first call to the boat took place at 9:49 p.m., where the coastguard asked what the situation was. The boat had run aground some 30 minutes before. They did not speak again until 0:42 a.m., just 40 minutes after the evacuation started, when Francesco Schettino was asked how many people were on board. He replied “40”. The coast…
Nigeria: President Goodluck Jonathan declares state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and YobeNigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three states after a spate of deadly attacks by Islamist militant groups. In a televised…
Somalia famine killed 260,000 people from 2010 to 2012A new report by the UN food agency and the US-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network has found that nearly 260,000 people died during the famine that hit Somalia from…
Cheetah scratches Botswana President Ian Khama on his faceBotswana President Ian Khama needed stitches on his face after being scratched by a cheetah, officials say. The animal was reportedly being fed in its enclosure at an…
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika hospitalized in Paris after suffering mini-strokeAlgerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has suffered a mini-stroke and has been flown to hospital in Paris, the state news agency said. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, had a…
Libya: Explosion at French embassy in TripoliA car bomb has exploded outside the French embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, wounding two guards and causing extensive damage. The blast completely destroyed the…
Blue diamond unearthed at Cullinan mine in South AfricaA rare blue diamond has been unearthed at Cullinan mine in South Africa. The 25.5-carat stone was recovered by Petra Diamonds at its Cullinan mine and is expected to bring…
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