Think we know everything about fire, after all those millennia of using it? Nope. But very cool experiments in zero gravity are revealing new insights into flames.
Rio, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, and Fortaleza have all asked for an FNSP presence, following protests that money should be spent on public services and not sporting events, such as the 2014 World Cup and the next Olympic Games.
TripAdvisor is buying GateGuru, which supplies real time airport data including weather and flights that's acquired partly through crowd-sourcing efforts.
Internet and mobile phone popularity in Tibet has "brought about social problems, including... online rumours, pornography and spam messages" said a Chinese official. "The real-name registration will help resolve these problems while benefiting the long-term, sound development of the internet."
Ground water at the crippled nuclear plant was found to contain Strontium-90, at 30 times the legal level, as well as elevated amounts of the radioactive isotope tritium.
Following pressure from a coalition of agriculture and livestock organizations, the company running cafeterias in House of Representative office buildings discontinued "Meatless Mondays."
NASA has revealed its astronaut candidate class of 2013, selecting 8 possible future space-farers from over 6,100 applicants. These are the people who may one day, just possibly, go to Mars.
