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A high-tech way to detect a mail bomb

06/09/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
File photo. (REUTERS/John Gress) The US Postal Service delivers more than 160 billion pieces of mail a year, so how can we tell if one of those pieces is a bomb in disguise? A new piece of technology uses harmless,…

Obama’s Bungled Nuclear Deal

04/02/2015 Published on Forbes.com
As recently as Sunday it looked as though the Iran nuclear deal was falling apart. We lived through two 24-hour extensions and finally got news that we would, in fact, see a deal. Today, President Obama and John Kerry told…

Car-size salamander with toilet-seat head ruled ancient rivers

03/23/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
(Steve Brusatte/Richard Butler/Octavio Mateus/Seb Steyer) A small-car-size “super salamander” with a toilet-seat-shaped head may have perished some 220 million to 230 million years ago alongside hundreds of its kin when its lake home dried up, researchers say. An international team…

In Thailand, there’s an elephant in the tourism boom

11/06/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
The 2014 King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament is one of the major events on Thailand’s social calendar. A charity auction, gala dinner and other events raise funds to provide care for the Kingdom’s elephant population. (King’s Cup Elelphant Polo) The…

1,300-year-old Egyptian mummy had tattoo of Archangel Michael

03/26/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
CT scan 3D visualisation of the mummified remains of a Sudanese woman, to show the organs. (Trustees of the British Museum) Infra-red reflectography of the tattoo found on the mummified remains of a Sudanese woman. (Trustees of the British Museum)…

A chip and a PIN: The future of credit cards

02/10/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
An EMV chip embedded in a credit card — a worldwide standard for point-of-sale transactions that the U.S. market is woefully behind on. (Mastercard) A series of hacks at two major retailers over the Christmas shopping season has so startled…

Baby, it’s cold inside: Scientists measure the universe’s coldest stuff

12/03/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Known as Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) and consisting of just a cluster of atoms, this remarkable form of matter has been impossible to measure and control at the same time. (Institute of Physics) Physicists from Australia and the United Kingdom have…

Experts suggest Hamas overestimated Arab world support for strikes on Israel

11/19/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have drawn a more muted response from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi than Hamas might have hoped for. (AP) If Hamas thought provoking an Israeli crackdown by raining rockets down on the Jewish state would rally Arab…