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Lunar Eclipse -The "Blood Moon" Early Phase

A beautiful shot of the very beginnings of this week's lunar eclipse taken just after sunset, at the start of the total lunar eclipse, on the hills above Strathalbyn, South Australia. Credits

Physicists Discover How to Weave a Real Spiderman Suit

Yet again, sci-fi becomes reality. We may be used to seeing characters like Spiderman scale skyscrapers in the movies, but soon we may be able to experience it ourselves.

Physicists have found the formula for a Spiderman suit. Scientists have unlocked the secret of how spiders and geckos effortlessly scale walls and hang upside down from ceilings. It’s an incredible trait among nature’s many gifts to the animal kingdom, but it was doubted that this natural form of adhesion could be adapted to hold the weight of real life Peter Parkers.

NASA Finds Unknown Extremophile Stowaways

NASA builds its spacecraft in specialized, sterilized rooms in an effort to minimize contamination by airborne particles. Dust, along with its microbial passengers, could potentially impair instruments and render experiments invalid. For example, if scientists do find microbes on Mars, they will want to be very certain that they aren’t looking at hitchhikers from Earth that were somehow able to survive the inter-solar ride.

China's Cartoon Web Police to Patrol "Illegal Content"

Police in China's capital said that starting Sept. 1, they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.

New Video Game Claims to Decipher the Psyche of People Around You

Imagine having your own personal mind reader that can tell you if your lover is a cheat, or your boss is lying to you. ''Heart Scan'' is a breakthrough new video game from Sega Corp., that can analyze people's voices for a range of feelings like nervous, calm, happy, dissatisfied or irritated.

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Future Ice Age Put on the Back Burner

It comes as a sheer bafflement to most of us as we try and wrap our minds around the time-frames used to describe what our earth has gone through, and what it has still to encounter: Evolutionary epochs, ice ages and life spans are all detailed in the millions and billions of years.

But scientists don’t seem to mind, and according to a new research study by Dr. Toby Tyrrell of the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science at the National Oceanography Center, Southampton, the next ice ages may be delayed by up to half a million years by our burning of fossil fuels.

Spaceship Earth & Other Universes -A Galaxy Insight

“The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation, the only one that is tenable, of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.”

"Everything in our universe -- including you and me, every atom and every galaxy -- has counterparts in these other universes."

David Deutsch -Legendary Oxford Physicist

The Sandal & the Fall of Rome

Archaeologists have discovered a footprint made by the sandal -a hobnailed sandal called caliga- of a Roman soldier in a wall surrounding the Hellenistic-Roman city of Hippos, east of the Sea of Galilee.

The ancient city of Hippos (Sussita), at 350 meters above sea level, overlooks the Sea of Galilee. The city was established during the period of Seleucid rule. It flourished during the Roman and Byzantine periods until it was destroyed by an earthquake in the year 749. Hippos, together with Beit Shean and other cities east of the Jordan River, formed the "Decapolis", the area in which Jesus performed most of the miracles described in the New Testament.

Arctic’s Legendary Northwest Passage is Ice-Free for the First Time in Recorded History

The North-West Passage, the sea route that runs along the Arctic coastline of North America, should be perilously clogged with thick ice this time of year. However, the passageway is now almost completely ice-free.