Apr 19 Pakistan Elections Could Mark Historic Transfer of Power By Cat Wise Election sign for Imran Khan who heads the party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. The former cricket champion-turned-politician casts himself as an anti-corruption crusader. Photo by Daniel Sagalyn. If everything goes according to plan, Pakistan's election on May 11 will be the first… Continue reading
Apr 18 Two Earth-Sized Planets with Earth-Like Temperatures Discovered by Kepler The artist's concept depicts Kepler-62e, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Photo by NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech. Two Earth-sized planets with… Continue reading
Apr 18 Gang of Eight Senators Say Immigration Bill Is ‘Common-sense Approach’ EmbedVideo(6240, 482, 304); Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and John McCain, R-Ariz., and their colleagues in the so-called Gang of Eight, held a news conference Thursday to detail the 844-page immigration reform legislation, officially released earlier this week. In a… Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch Supreme Court Rules Foreign Human Rights Cases Can’t Be Tried in U.S. Supreme Court Rules Foreign Human Rights Cases Can't Be Tried in U.S. Continue watching
Apr 17 Senate Blocks Expanded Gun Sale Background Checks EmbedVideo(6227, 482, 304); President Barack Obama expressed frustration Wednesday following the Senate defeat of the Manchin-Toomey amendment, which would have expanded background checks. Obama was introduced by Mark Barden, the father of Sandy Hook victim Daniel Barden. WASHINGTON --… Continue reading
Apr 17 Science of Light Diffusion Brings Gollum to Life EmbedVideo(6222, 482, 304); Watch Visual Effects artist Joe Letteri explain how the science of light diffusion made digital characters more realistic. It was near midnight in the winter of 1998 when computer graphics researcher Henrik Jensen made… Continue reading
Apr 17 Panama in Poetry and Prose Tugboat Gatun, first boat to enter the Panama Canal in 1913, passing through the west chamber. Photo by Time Life Pictures/Getty Images. It isn't often that a visiting Latin American political leader starts a talk to a Washington audience… Continue reading
Apr 16 Watch Report Finds ‘Indisputable’ Proof That U.S. Tortured Detainees After 9/11 Report Finds Indisputable Proof That U.S. Tortured Detainees After 9/11… Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch Supreme Court Hears Custody Case for Child of Native American Descent Supreme Court Hears Custody Case for Child of Native American Descent… Continue watching
Apr 16 Reaction from Major Earthquake Near Iran-Pakistan Border A major earthquake hit the Iran-Pakistan border early Tuesday morning. The 7.7 magnitude earthquake, the second deadly quake to hit Iran in less than a week after a 6.1 struck near Bushehr, has killed at least 46 people. This… Continue reading