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Fermi Telescope Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space
Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter...
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MIT Energy Storage Discovery Could Lead to Unlimited Solar Power
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a new way of storing energy from sunlight that could lead to ‘unlimited’ solar power. The process, loosely based on plant...
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Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make an incredible discovery
Wine makes superconductors better at their jobs. And apparently, it makes some scientists better at their jobs too. Superconductors behave like most metals; they conduct electricity. They do so,...
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Polar bear's epic nine day swim in search of sea ice
A polar bear swam continuously for over nine days, covering 687km (426 miles), a new study has revealed. Scientists studying bears around the Beaufort sea, north of Alaska, claim this endurance feat...
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5 Al-Jazeera Journalists Arrested In Egypt
According to the report, Al-Jazeera is just about keeping it's broadcasts going in Egypt after the Cairo base was shut down and the arrests of five journalists. The article says on the ground...
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Lesbian students enter to cheers at Minn. school
Two lesbian high school students who fought for the right to walk together as part of a royalty court made their entrances Monday to the cheers of hundreds of classmates. Sarah Lindstrom and Desiree...
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Lone Nepali Soldier Defends Potential Rape Victim Against 40 Men
Whoa...holy cow! Every once in a while someone in the world comes along and reminds us what a true hero really looks like. A 35 year-old Gurkha soldier named Bishnu Shrestha was riding a train when he...
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Egyptians Say, "Can You Hear Me Now?"
Noreen Moustafa is an associate producer for Vanguard. I have had my cultural identity as an Egyptian-American shift in the eyes of others overnight many times before. Growing up in Los Angeles, when...
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Droughts, Floods and Food
A well written piece by Paul Krugman appeared in the NY Times yesterday that gives a truthful view on the current protests we are seeing in relation to food prices and world weather events and the...
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What We Can Learn From the Environmental Wreck of Easter Island
Adam Yamaguchi is executive producer and a correspondent for Vanguard. I’m huffing and puffing, hunched over on a rusty old mountain bike as I struggle to eke out one more crank of the pedal. My bike...
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Obama to seek changes in Pell Grants
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's budget plan would cut $100 billion from Pell Grants and other higher education programs over a decade through belt-tightening and use the savings to keep the...
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Congresswoman Gabby Giffords Labors to Speak Again
The New York Times February 13, 2011 Word and Lyric, Giffords Labors to Speak Again By MARC LACEY and JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. PART ONE... PHOENIX — Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an eloquent speaker...
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Chevron Insults and Attacks Indigenous People in Ecuador, Counter-Sues
"Chevron has dumped tons and tons.. and tons.. of water containing numerous carcinogens in the rivers and streams of several Ecuadorian tribes. It even admits this part of the story. However, it...
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Growing Valentine's Day roses harming Kenya's ecological site
Consumer appetite for cut-price Kenyan roses for Valentine's Day is "bleeding the country dry" by threatening the region's precarious ecology. University of Leicester ecology and conservation...
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Community Spotlight: Radical_Centrist on CASA
Hello Everyone, duzins wanted me to share a little about CASA and what we do, and why I do it. CASA stands for “Court Appointed Special Advocate.” In some places we are called guardian ad litems. CASA...
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Posting a News Story - A Primer
With so many new faces, we thought it would be a good idea to publish guidelines on posting community content. First, the most popular news items are usually timely and newsworthy, and adhere to our...
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Middle East Protests Spreading
The protests and demonstrations are spreading to other Middle East countries after the fall of President Mubarak of Egypt. Protests have taken place in Bahrain. Israel is totally surrounded by...
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Inside the Business of Selling Human Body Parts
Is the human body sacred? Or is it a commodity ready to be chopped up and exposed to the forces of supply and demand? The answer is a matter of perspective. Our own body is a temple. But when we need...
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What should go on the Bar Karma chalkboard in Episode 9? - a pitch from kage23
With Frakes directing, it needs to be full of Star Trek jokes / references. THIS WEEK'S SPECIALS: Klingon Blood Wine ... $12/glass, $40/bottle Romulan Ale ... $6/bottle, $8/pint Cardassian Sunrise ......
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Obama No Longer Defending DOMA
The US government says it will no longer defend in the courts a law banning federal recognition of same-sex marriages approved by states. US Attorney General Eric Holder said President Barack Obama...
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