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Ancient Galaxy Cluster Still Producing Stars

Star formation in the Galaxy Cluster CIG J02182-05102. (Credit: Spitzer Space Telescope, IRAC, MIPS/Subaru/NASA/JPL-Caltech/K Tran & C. Papovich (Texas A&M University)) ScienceDaily (Aug. 23, 2010) — Much like quiet, middle-aged baby boomers peacefully residing in some of the world's largest cities, families of some galaxies also have a hidden wild youth that they only now [...]

SoundCloud offers Creative Commons integration

Music distribution service SoundCloud has partnered with Creative Commons (CC) to allow its users to users locate, remix and re-use any content offered under a CC licence. The platform now has a dedicated CC section at www.soundcloud.com/creativecommons so users can easily find free-to-use samples and audio content. SoundCloud CEO Alexander Ljung says, “Providing the talented [...]

Infant, Magma-Ball Earth Glimpsed Via Newfound Rocks

"Time capsule" may be best hope for decoding early Earth's composition. Canada's Baffin Island, home to perhaps the world's oldest rocks (file photo). Giving new meaning to the phrase "older than dirt," scientists have found evidence of an underground rock reservoir left over from the days when Earth was a ball of magma, a new [...]

A Go-to Actor for ‘That Guy’ Roles

David Oxberry/Anchor Bay Entertainment Eddie Marsan in the coming film “The Disappearance of Alice Creed.” Mr. Marsan has been busy in both blockbusters and indies, notably in films by Mike Leigh. THE boyish-looking actor in the Chiswick coffee shop here can’t possibly be the ferocious Eddie Marsan. That Eddie Marsan is usually fuming, and usually [...]

Archaeologists find oldest paintings of apostles

Italian professor Fabrizio Bisconti shows a painting inside the catacomb of Saint Tecla in downtown Rome June 22, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Tony Gentile (Reuters) – Archaeologists and art restorers using new laser technology have discovered what they believe are the oldest paintings of the faces of Jesus Christ's apostles. The images in a branch of the [...]

Clean-up of oil spill may cause long-term damage

HANDLE with care. That's the advice of coastal ecologists and geologists to those who are planning the clean-up of the Gulf ecosystems threatened by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Louisiana's salt marshes are at particular risk from the leaking oil (Image: John Moore/Getty) Louisiana's ecologically important but fast-eroding marshes, which serve as nurseries for commercially [...]

Joan Armatrading North American Tour Dates Set

Joan Armatrading Album Available Now in U.S. and in Canada on June 29 on 429/Fontana North SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ — Celebrated songstress Joan Armatrading is returning to North America this summer by kicking off her visit with an appearance at the Montreal Jazz Festival (July 5).  She'll perform songs from her new [...]

Greenpeace Asks Nestlé to Give Orang-utans a Break

30 Greenpeace activists dressed as orang-utans urged Nestlé shareholders to “give orang-utans a break” and stop profiting from rainforest destruction. Seriously – you gotta love Greenpeace. I wrote about the NGO’s creativity in an earlier post about sustainable seafood at Trader Joe’s. And now, they did it again. I mean, who else would dress up [...]

The Eerie Silence

The open cluster NGC 290 contains hundreds of stars and spans 65 light years across. The vastness of the universe, filled with such a multitude of stars, has led many to conclude that life must be elsewhere. Paul Davies’s new book challenges this view. Image credit: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona/E. Olszewski Why have we not made [...]

Digital Kings

Kings Of Leon have become the first band in history to sell 250,000 digital albums, it has been announced. The Followill clan's fourth LP, 'Only By The Night', has entered the record books by hitting the milestone. It heads the latest releases from Lady Gaga, Florence & The Machine, Lily Allen and Coldplay in the [...]

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