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Should Americans Travel to the Middle East?
Today the area is often perceived as a murky and dangerous blur on the map. But how unsafe, really, is this area for tourists?
October 23, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
Italian Scientists Sent to Jail Because They Downplayed the Risk of an Earthquake
Six scientists and one former government official will do time for failing to accurately convey the risk of an earthquake
October 22, 2012 |
By Colin Schultz
Volcanoes: The Top Hotspots of the World
Volcanic landscapes draw countless tourists to rumbling mountains, rivers of lava and boiling geysers. Here are a few of the hottest destinations
October 19, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
Giant, Foot-long Daddy Longlegs Discovered in Cave
A huge, 13-inch long harvestman - better known as a daddy longlegs - turned up in Laos
October 19, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
The History of Trick Or Treating Is Weirder Than You Thought
It's almost that time of year when underaged kids get into costume and traipse around the neighborhood ringing doorbells and begging for treats
October 18, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
More Wines from Unexpected Places
Good, locally made wines can now be found in such unlikely locales as equatorial Kenya, the Texas Hill Country, and temperate and rainy Japan
October 17, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
Picasso, Matisse and Monet Paintings Stolen From Dutch Museum
Seven paintings from some of Western art's greatest masters went missing from a the Kunsthal Museum in Holland this morning
October 16, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Today We Celebrate a Woman Who Saw the Future of Computers
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day celebrating the life of Lady Lovelace, a seventeenth century countess who published a paper that might be the first computer program ever devised
October 16, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
The Man Who Deserved ’66 Percent of the Credit’ for Cloning Dolly Has Died
Earlier this week Keith Campbell, one of the scientists responsible for Dolly, died at the age of 58
October 12, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Bafflement Over the European Union’s Peace Prize Win
The European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize this morning, much to the dismay of many Europeans and Tweeters
October 12, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Four Surprising Places Where Local Wines Thrive
Almost everywhere European explorers went, vineyards grew behind them. Here are a few places tourists might never have known there was wine to taste
October 11, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
China’s ‘Provocative and Vulgar’ Mo Yan Wins Nobel in Literature
Chinese author Mo Yan took this year's Nobel Prize in Literature for his "hallucinatory realism"
October 11, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Saudi Arabia, World’s Largest Oil Exporter, Pushes for Solar at Home
Saudi Arabia is going green so that it can keep selling its oil
October 09, 2012 |
By Colin Schultz
Where Travelers Go to Pay Their Respects
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is not a fun place to go, yet tourists flock here, and to
other somber sites around the world
October 09, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
Archaeologists Uncover Massive Stone Age Complex in Scotland
A 5,000-year old temple complex may have been the centre of Stone Age British culture
October 08, 2012 |
By Colin Schultz
Like Salamanders, African Spiny Mice Can Grow New Tails
The spiny mouse achieves regeneration feats thanks to its unique gene expression, but new research shows that tissue regeneration may not be so uncommon in mammals as scientists once thought
October 08, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
When Did Human-Neanderthal Hook Ups End?
Upper Paleolithic humans coming out of Africa lost romantic interest in Neanderthals about 47,000 years ago
October 08, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Black Mamba Venom Beats Morphine as a Painkiller
Black mambas' toxicity turns out to have applications other than rodent-killing
October 04, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
How Mosquitos Are Out-Smarting Humans
Mosquitos have figured us out and have started biting during the daytime
October 04, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
UNESCO-Listed Medieval Souk in Syria Burned, Bombed
Aleppo, the site of an ancient UNESCO-listed souk in Syria, went up in flames on Sunday as clashes between troops and rebels infiltrated the market quarter.
October 03, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
