Highlighting the extreme weather conditions hitting Europe, space sensors aboard ESA's Envisat satellite have detected the worst floodwaters to hit Britain for 60 years and deadly fires raging through southern Europe. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Magnetic waves ripple through the Sun's outer atmosphere with enough energy to heat the region to its astonishing temperature of millions of degrees, new views from the Hinode spacecraft suggest. If correct, the waves could solve a decades-long puzzle about the source of this heat. Includes video. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

The oppressive heat that crept over parts of the western United States during the first few days of July 2007 took hold of the entire West during the week of July 4 through July 11. Deep red tones blanket every western state in this land surface temperature image. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Sony Corp., the world's largest video-game console maker, sold a record number of PLAYSTATION 3 machines in Europe during the holiday shopping season after lowering prices to compete against Nintendo Co.'s Wii. picked by punthe 9 months ago

Although the 7,900 gallons of milk per day is still destined for consumers, the heat that it releases as it is chilled will warm a gym, a workshop, and a 50-room accommodation complex. picked by MandolinOrange 8 months ago

The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting -- half of the picture is in night. picked by 1krazykorean 1 year ago

The Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat must replay the final 51.9 seconds of their game last month because the NBA said the official scorer ruled incorrectly that Shaquille O'Neal fouled out. This will be the first time since 1982 the league has sent teams back on the court for a replay. picked by sholom22 9 months ago

This is a trippy perceptual phenomenon which will mess with your head a little bit. Sine wave speech is artificially degraded speech that sounds like just beeps and whistles until you have been primed to hear it as speech. Try it, you will be amazed! picked by mahler87 9 months ago

This map, indicating the varying degrees of 'blondness' in Europe, shows how fair hair gets rarer further away from a central Scandinavian core area – even towards the north. picked by mitzuzake 11 months ago

Hundreds of millions — or even billions — of years after planets would have initially formed around two unusual stars, a second wave of planetesimal and planet formation appears to be taking place. "This is a new class of stars, ones that display conditions now ripe for formation of a second generation of planets, long, long after the stars themselves formed." picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

An unusual electrical disturbance has been spotted in space, travelling unchanged through the ionised gas surrounding Earth. A European space mission called Cluster detected a "soliton" wave, a phenomenon similar to the self-contained solitons that can travel along optical fibres and channels of water on Earth. This is the first known soliton in space. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Europe is now the "king of spam," and is responsible for 44 percent of all spam sent worldwide, according to Symantec. picked by DemureArt 8 months ago

NASA encouraged Europe to work on the development of its own manned spaceship. In such a way Europe will be able to provide the world, and mainly the United States, an additional way of get to the international space station. (without paying the Russians hundreds of millions of dollars) picked by maxriter 4 months ago

Scientists have discovered what they think may be another reason why Greenland 's ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth's crust is enabling underground magma to heat the ice. They have found at least one “hotspot” in the northeast corner of Greenland -- just below a site where an ice stream was recently discovered. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Sony Corp will start selling a new configuration of its PlayStation 3 video game console, with less built-in storage capacity, in Europe on October 10, priced at 399 euros, the company said on Friday. picked by punthe 1 year ago

The LHC is getting all the coverage, but another major physics experiment the Virgo gravity-wave interferometer, an €80 million (US$114 million) has been incapacitated by a vacuum failure for most of the summer, and is expected to stay out of commission for a month or two to come. It is searching for that elusive Gravity Wave picked by bernardblack 1 month ago

To absorb heat from the sun efficiently—to use it, for example, to heat water—you need large, flat, black surfaces. One way to do that is to construct those surfaces specially, on the roofs of buildings. But why go to all that trouble when cities are full of black surfaces already, in the form of asphalted roads? picked by rambler 1 year ago

Miami Heat basketball player Antoine Walker was held up at gunpoint in his downtown home -- the second time he's been robbed in his hometown in the past several years. picked by nesbyniccolo 1 year ago

Sleepiness among judges and other members of the judiciary is not uncommon and is viewed unfavorably by the media and society, says an Australian study. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago