Before the massive blowout of BP's Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, tests showed that the slurry Halliburton pumped down into the well could be unstable.
A French chateau that once belonged to African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa has been sold at auction for 915,000 euros (?760,000). It will cost three times as much to fully refurbish it.
The call to prayer is normally delivered by a sea of voices from minarets across Cairo. Now there are plans to transmit a single broadcast to reduce the cacophony.
Some urban planners still believe that the best way to ease traffic congestion is to build more roads, especially roads that can take drivers around or over crowded city streets.
A lost cat once journeyed 200 miles over two months to return to its home, all on its own! How do animals manage such prodigious—and precise—feats of travel?
A lost cat once journeyed 200 miles over two months to return to its home, all on its own! How do animals manage such prodigious—and precise—feats of travel?
Despite all the improvements in work over recent decades, there is still an ingrained attitude that happiness lies outside work; that we are waiting for the weekend.
The rhetoric about longer working hours also needs to be put in perspective. The average working day has increased in length over the last two decades, but by just one minute and forty-two seconds.
Oftentimes when the weekend arrives we party hard. We eat and drink too much. And then we feel guilty. Maybe if we didn’t deprive ourselves of simple pleasures all day every day, we wouldn't feel so compelled to overdo it.
Oftentimes when the weekend arrives we party hard. We eat and drink too much. And then we feel guilty. Maybe if we didn’t deprive ourselves of simple pleasures all day every day, we wouldn't feel so compelled to overdo it.
When N was ten, he accompanied his grandfather on a cruise which took them to over twenty countries, from Venezuela to Hong Kong and Japan. N claimed that whatever port they visited, his grandfather knew the local language.
Controversy still exists over whether Thomas Prest's character was based on a real person. No records of a barber shop on Fleet Street, or a barber named Sweeney Todd have been found.
It is dawn in the Andes. A grimy carpet of red dust stretches over rolling featureless hills towards a horizon dominated by the icy cone of Chile's Licancabur volcano.
Even at 10%, the high possibility of life is overwhelming. There are at least a few hundred billion stars in our galaxy, which means that around 20 to 40 billion planets have the potential for the development of organisms.
The comparisons between the Earth and Gliese 581g should not be overstated, however. Even if Gliese 581g can sustain organisms, it would be a very different place to live.