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In a first for any U.S.-based pageant organization, the Miss Universe Organization has taken the unusual step of releasing topless photos of outgoing Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza to the media. Just how did pageant officials come to be in the business of releasing sexy photos instead of reacting to them?
Officials said Friday they have dropped an investigation into a beauty queen's claim that her evening gown was doused with pepper spray, citing a lack of evidence to support criminal charges.
Our use of ever-higher megapixel cameras, iPods with large hard drives and jumbo video files posted on YouTube is starting to crush us — digitally, that is.
The deeper astronomers gaze into the cosmos, the more they find it's a bizarre and violent universe. The research findings from this week's annual meeting of U.S. astronomers range from blue orphaned baby stars to menacing "rogue" black holes that roam our galaxy, devouring any planets unlucky enough to be within their limited reach.
After a flurry of accusations and skepticism, an exhaustive investigation has determined that someone did try to sabotage a beauty contestant's bid for the Miss Puerto Rico Universe by dousing her garments with pepper spray, police said Wednesday.
A security guard who was "playing around" backstage may have contaminated Miss Puerto Rico Universe's clothes and makeup brush with pepper spray, setting off allegations of sabotage, the island's police chief said Thursday.
Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.
A map of the cosmic microwave background made by NASA's WMAP satellite shows density fluctuations in the early universe – regions of higher density were slightly warmer than voids. Similar maps by Planck may reveal the existence and shape of extra spatial dimensions (Image: NASA/WMAP Science Team)
An astronaut removes the High Resolution Spectrograph to make way for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph during the second servicing mission in 1997. The telescope can hold four telephone-booth sized instruments and four piano-sized instruments (Image: NASA)
Some of the most distant galaxies ever seen appear in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field North, a portion of which is shown here. If a new servicing mission is approved, a new instrument called the Wide Field Camera 3 would spot galaxies even more distant, and therefore further back in time (Image: NASA/ESA/S Beckwith/HUDF team)
Small Galaxies Have Highter Percentage of Dark Matter"As we looked at smaller objects - individual galaxies and satellite galaxies, the normal matter content gets steadily less..."
Nude Model Goes Un-AirbrushedIn the interview, Hawkins says, "I'm not a stick figure--I thought it would be great to tell women to just be themselves and be confident."
Hubble telescope shows earliest photo of universe - Yahoo! NewsHubble telescope shows earliest photo of universe!
Planet-hunting telescope unearths hot mysteriesNASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.
Image Gallery: Beauty of the UniverseHere are stars packed like golden sand, gas combed in delicate blue threads, piled into burgundy thunderheads and carved into sinuous rilles and ribbons, and galaxies clotted with star clusters dancing like spiders on the ceiling. More Articles
Two Objects Found: Too Small to be Stars, Hotter than the Stars they CircleNASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars. More Articles
Reaching for the starsThe Hubble telescope has expanded our vision of the universe. Soon its replacement will unleash a torrent of new discoveries Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to SeeAfter hovering over Mount Everest and the gorges that plunge to the Ganges, you are pulled through the Earth's atmosphere to glimpse the inky black of space over Tibet's high desert.
Hulu - Cosmic Journeys: The Horizons of Deep Time - Watch the full episode now.A very informative 21 minute video about time, the universe, and attempts to discover through experiments with the hadron collider, the ultimate fate of the universe.
How and why the dark matter announcement has been overhypedYesterday, there was a widely hyped (though not, at least publicly, by the experimental team itself) announcement of the results of one of the premier dark matter direct detection experiments, the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search.
Black Holes in Star Clusters Stir up Time and Space (w/ Video)Within a decade scientists could be able to detect the merger of tens of pairs of black holes every year, according to a team of astronomers at the University of Bonn's Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie... More Articles
Sultry Water-World Found Circling the Star GJ 1214Astronomers said Wednesday that they had discovered a planet composed mostly of water. More Articles
Where does the universe end? The Universe doesn't end, as counter-intuitive as this seems. Once again, language confuses concepts. We speak of a 'Big Bang' but don't mean a 'bang' like an explosion, which has a centre and a shock wave that moves spherically out into air from the explosion.
A Blueprint For A Quantum Propulsion MachinePush on the electromagnetic fields in the quantum vacuum and you should get an equal and opposite force. More Articles
Alien Technology 2 - Reverse-Engineering The Roswell CraftI'm not sure of what to make of this! If he is a quack he is a very intelligent one. He explains the technology very well (as layman as he can get given the technology being explained). I'd love to see more of these. If anyone has links please let me know. Cheers,
*Exclusive* Great Footage by NASA of 2 UFOs Emerging From Earth and Visiting the Space ShuttleThis is interesting footage. I'm not sure what they are but there is no doubt in my mind that they aren't ice or debris.
Media Immigration Human Rights Environment Water Health Drugs Sex Corporations and Work World Politics Take Action 3 Silly Religious Beliefs Held By Non-Silly PeopleMany of the beliefs held by religious moderates -- smart people who respect science and the separation of church and state -- are as untenable as the dogma of fundamentalists.
Mystery 'dark flow' extends towards edge of universe - spaceSOMETHING big is out there beyond the visible edge of our universe. That's the conclusion of the largest analysis to date of over 1000 galaxy clusters streaming in one direction at blistering speeds.
Mystery 'dark flow' extends towards edge of universeSomething big is out there beyond the visible edge of our universe. That's the conclusion of the largest analysis to date of over 1000 galaxy clusters streaming in one direction at blistering speeds.
Photo: Crescent EarthThis dazzling picture of our planet, all dark but the cerulean sliver of the South Pole, was a long time coming. More Articles
Neutralinos--Candidate for Dark Matter and Lynchpin for Supersymmetry Next on List at LHCThe reason physicists are so excited about the LHC, though, is that the kind of supersymmetry that best solves the problem with the Higgs will become visible at the higher energies the LHC will explore.
10 Geeky Laws That Should Exist, But Don�t | GeekDad | Wired.comThere are many, many laws having nothing to do with government, that are useful to know because they tell you something about how the universe works.
Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatoryAn unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.
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