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How would the world change if we found alien life?

If contact with extraterrestrial life is made through radio telescopes, a decipherment process may have to take place to understand the message. (NASA) A second look by the Mars Global Surveyor at the so-called Viking “Face on Mars” in Cydonia…

Black-balled: LA tries spherical scheme to block evaporation amid drought

Is a bevy of black balls – 96 million to be exact – a crucial solution in helping California manage its calamitous drought? On Monday, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti deployed the final 20,000 of the 96 million “shade balls”…

EPA distorts health benefits of mega-costly clean-air rule

FILE: 2010: An EPA worker monitoring a beach in Pensacola, Florida. (REUTERS) EXCLUSIVE: The Environmental Protection Agency is exaggerating the potential health benefits—especially for children—it says result from a new rule that will set sharply lower ozone levels across the…

Throwable camera aims to save lives

Is it a child’s bouncing ball or the latest in covert surveillance? A new bouncing ball lets law enforcement, military personnel, and search and rescue teams quickly evaluate dangerous environments before they enter them. Bounce Imaging makes the Explorer throwable…

Lost boys: Moms of radicalized Western jihadists form support group

Boudreau hopes other mothers don’t go through what she did. (Courtesy: Boudreau family) Islamic teaching states that “paradise lies at the feet of your mother,” and a group of Western moms who lost their sons first to radicalization and then…

UN report denies Israel’s right of self-defense, advocates arrest of Israelis instead

Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and any other “suspected” Israeli war criminals wherever and whenever you can get your hands on them. That is the shocking bottom line of a scandalous report released today from the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.…

Facing the statistics: What we can all learn from one mom battling cancer

This image shows metastasized human breast cancer cells (magnified 400 times, stained brown) in lymph nodes. (National Cancer Institute) National Cancer Survivors Day has come and gone. This past Sunday was the 28th year set aside to celebrate worldwide the…

UN Secretary-General weighs lumping Israel in with ISIS and Al Qaeda

This week Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz have posed a challenge for would-be presidents and all Americans: if the United Nations criminalizes Israel’s exercise of the right of self-defense it will pay a heavy price. The organization has no…

Climate change brings needed rain to Africa

File photo – A Sahrawi man stands in the Sahara desert between Tindouf and Tifariti, (REUTERS/Juan Medina) Climate change has been going on since the beginning of time, but has been the source of intense debate in recent years. In…

Emanuel starts 2nd term, as Chicago financial crisis deepens with ‘junk’ rating

A few months ago, winning re-election was Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s biggest problem. Now, his problem seems to be that he won. His prize is a mountain of financial problems, so severe that the ongoing gunfire in the rough parts…