Oct 08 Diving into the particle that 'won' the Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs, the theorists who in 1964 predicted the existence of what is known as the Higgs boson, the particle that gives mass to the… Continue reading
Oct 08 What we're watching Tuesday Good morning! From our coffees to yours, here's what we are watching this a.m. It is day 8 of the government shutdown. The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in two cases: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission,… Continue reading
Oct 07 Shutdown puts T. rex's new stomping grounds on hold The near-complete T. rex fossil was due to be moved to Washington before the government shutdown. Photo by Flickr user Greg Goebel A near-complete T. Rex fossil that was due to make Washington's Smithsonian National Museum of… Continue reading
Oct 07 Iowa Governor's SUV fleet now 'on the grid' Law enforcement officials in Iowa will no longer be kept in the dark when they scan license plates for Gov. Terry Branstand's official vehicle and 13 others in his security detail fleet. Before, the license plate information was not… Continue reading
Oct 07 Home built for healing in competition at Dept. of Energy Solar Decathlon EmbedVideo(7645); For these future architects and engineers, designing a house for this year's Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition came with a mission: to give back and to heal. More than 100 Washington, D.C., college students built… Continue reading
Oct 07 Debt limit overtaking shutdown as U.S. crisis focus WASHINGTON -- A market-rattling federal default loomed and the partial government shutdown lingered on Monday, but a gridlocked Congress betrayed little or no urgency toward resolving either of the nation's most challenging short-term economic disputes. Stocks got a case of… Continue reading
Oct 07 Graphic warnings on cigarette pack not enough to deter UK teens A survey by the British Heart Foundation shows half the teenagers in Australia are deterred from smoking by the standardized cigarette labels, compared to only one third of UK teens deterred by non-standardized labels. Australia is the… Continue reading
Oct 07 First worldwide measure of digital natives puts U.S. near the top More than 13 percent of the United States' population are digital natives, which ranks sixth in the world, according to a United Nations report measuring information and communication technology development across countries. This was the first time a… Continue reading
Oct 07 Supreme Court steps back into business with record-low approval ratings By News Desk Image courtesy of Pew Research. SCOTUS returns to the bench today to record-low favorability ratings. According to analysis by Pew, only 48 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the court, while 38 percent had an unfavorable… Continue reading
Oct 07 Happy birthday, Mr. President (Putin) Russian President Vladimir Putin greets leaders at the APEC summit. Russian president Vladimir Putin is spending his 61st birthday attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on the Indonesian island of Bali Monday. What he didn't expect, however,… Continue reading