One of the two cameras from the Apollo 14 mission’s lunar module Antares was going to be sold at the next Space History Sale hosted by the British auction house Bonhams. Unfortunately, for the camera’s owner, former astronaut pilot Edgar Mitchell, NASA
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On Sunday, thousands of protestors stood outside the nuclear plant at Fessenheim in Alsace, France. The plant in Fessenheim is the country’s oldest nuclear power plant and has been in service since 1977. Its location near the German border has prompted f
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Two Indian companies (Abellon Clean Energy Ltd. and Husk Power Systems) and Pakistani company, Aga Khan Planning and Building Services, were awarded this year’s prestigious Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. The British award, founded in 2001, encoura
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Last week, At the Dallas Fair Park in Texas, U.S., an auction was held for more than 200 items including fossils, meteorites, and minerals. The featured items were a rare dinosaur “fighting pair” and an enormous triceratops skeleton.
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Last week, a United Nations report announced that restricting or disconnecting people from the Web is in violation of human rights and against international law. The report came after France and the U.K. passed laws to suspend internet service to those
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Controversies surrounding the ethics, as well as safety, of full-body airport scanners have emerged repeatedly in the news for the past several years. Now, new test results released by the Transportation Security Administration show that radiation level e
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Brazil’s environmental protection agency, Ibama, is cracking down on those illegally cutting down trees for cattle ranching. Amazonas, one of the nine Amazon states in Brazil still has one of the most well-preserved forests, but since 1972, deforestation
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Scary and stunning news arrives from Iran. Recently, an Iranian court has given out an eye for an eye judgment. It has allowed a 32-year-old woman to inject acid to blind the person who had blinded her in the same way after she turned down a marriage prop
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This week, eight of the Arctic states worldwide will participate in a forum in Nuuk, Greenland to discuss the future of the Arctic. The members include Canada, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the United States. Foreign ministers, in
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In the month of April, the U.S. had over 600 reports of tornadoes nationwide. Last week, the South was struck with hundreds of deadly tornadoes that claimed the lives of many and ripped apart thousands of homes. It is peak tornado season, and meteorologis
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