Italy court orders retrial in Knox sex-murder case
Italy’s highest court of appeal overturned the acquittal of US student Amanda Knox on Tuesday and ordered a retrial over the murder of her British housemate
Read MoreItaly’s highest court of appeal overturned the acquittal of US student Amanda Knox on Tuesday and ordered a retrial over the murder of her British housemate
Read MoreSpeaking on C-SPAN, Nader said the influence of money on the political process along with the weakening of unions had prevented candidates from addressing certain controversial issues. Voting for the lesser of two evils had also allowed candidates to skirt around particular topics.
Read MoreA large comet was the likely cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs, not an asteroid, new research has found. The research found that the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico was created by a smaller object than previously thought, and that when all the factors are taken together, an extremely fast traveling comet fits the evidence much better than an asteroid does.
Read MoreA sun-grazing comet and a solar eruption have been caught on film together by NASA’s twin STEREO spacecraft. The video shows comet Pan-STARRS and a massive coronal mass ejection (CME), caused by a recent solar flare, together in a striking new video.PAN
Read MoreThe 50-million pixel, all-sky snapshot of radiation left over from the Big Bang was compiled from data gathered by ESA’s Planck satellite, launched four years ago.
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