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  • Vitamin D from sun may treat asthma says study

    Time spent by asthma patients soaking up the sun may help in the treatment of the illness, a research has said. A team of scientists at King's College London said vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, calms an "over-active" part of the immune system in asthma, BBC reported. However, treating patients with vitamin D has not yet been tested. People with asthma find it hard to ...

  • Need more freedom for filmmaking in India Anurag Kashyap

    India's rising star director Anurag Kashyap has complained that filmmakers in in the country still do not enjoy the kind of freedom of space and expression that would allow them to make meaningful films. "Today, we are forced to treat our audience as children of less than five years and hence we have to only make goody-goody films with a huge dose of escapism. I want to have the option making ...

  • Mice and lizard return after a month in space

    A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space. According to scientists, the experiment was conducted to test effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on the cell structure, Fox News reported. Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants following its safe landing in a ...

  • How space tourism could open our eyes help save Earth

    A "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's Earth-observing satellite -- Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on Jan. 4, ...

  • Who invented clothes A Palaeolithic archaeologist answers | Becky Wragg Sykes

    "Who invented clothes?" It's one of those brilliant questions that children ask, before they learn that the big things we wonder about rarely have simple answers. It's the kind of thing that archaeologists like me get put on the spot about when chatting to kids, and we love to have a crack at answering.Saturday's "Ask a grown up" section featured just that ...

Movie Review

Narc

Narc

Writer/director Joe Carnahan has a generic, unimposing name, the kind you would expect to see in the credits of a straight-to-video slugfest. And, in some ways, that is exactly what his sophomore film, Narc, is, except that it is filmed with such energy and bravado and boasts two performances by Ray Liotta and Jason Patric that are so impressive that it rises above its generic roots and be ... ...

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  • Op-Ed Gamma Rays and the Grand Canyon

    denied their motion to overturn the Salazar decision on constitutional grounds. A tactical, piecemeal circumvention of the ban has had better luck in the bureaucracy of the U.S. Forest Service. The USFS, despite the anti-mining intent of their boss President Obama, authorized a Canadian company to dig uranium six miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. ...

  • Volcanic Activity Increases On Alaskas Mount Pavlof

    Alaska's Pavlof Volcano, which roared back to life on May 13, continues to send ash and steam nearly 20,000 feet into the air, just below the threshold that experts deem becomes a threat to air traffic in the region. Over the weekend, Pavlof also began spewing lava hundreds of feet into the air. The 8,262-foot-high Pavlof, which is located about 625 miles southeast of Anchorage along ...

  • Big Story Weather – May 20 2013

    Severe weather was the big news this past weekend. There were many tornadoes reported from Texas to Iowa and back into the Northern Plains. The tornadoes did plenty of damage and there were even some fatalities reported. These storms fired up each and every day over the weekend. The Plains also dealt with strong winds and large ...

  • Costa Rican paper alleges Canadian was victim of a hit

    Brad Deering (Facebook photo) A Costa Rican newspaper says a Canadian man who was killed in that country last week was the victim of a targeted attack. The Costa Rican Times says Brad Deering, a 42-year-old native of Vancouver, B.C. and a Costa Rican resident, was killed Thursday by three gunmen who police believe were attempting to rob his home in a gated community in San Jose. The paper says ...

  • Space trilogy episode 3 Star Wars Weekends slideshow

    The history of crowd control reached a milestone as Boba Fett stood guard at the Sorcerer's Hat Stage. After my recent adventures in space history and space history-in-the-making, it's only fitting that I spend the third and final episode in this shameless series of work-related outings immersed in space fantasy. And seeing as how it's billed as a "trilogy," why don't I ...

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