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A library without books is a joke, except for the soon to open in Texas, United States, which is considered the first public library without paper books in the world.
Today digital stores consoles are not something secondary, offering a catalog that often includes gems.
A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk in (Russia) has prompted a tsunami warning (withdrawal just ten minutes after being issued) and has been felt as far away as Moscow or Siberia.
Unknown mechanisms plants use to detect other plants when they are blocked all routes except the sound communication.
The Danish company Lego has performed in New York the largest model ever built with construction parts. It is a life-size replica of one of the ships of the Star Wars film saga.
A U.S. company research to create a completely vegetable egg substitute called 'Beyond Eggs' with the same properties and the same taste of this food. The new product will be more economical, healthy and environmentally friendly.
The new outbreak of H7N9 avian flu, which is expanding in China, has claimed at least 33 lives of the approximately 130 cases reported.
Love has always been a reason to save the world especially in times 'hipster' and amid some lysergic experiences. As postmodernism retrieves everything, but amplified, has drawn attention to a documentary entitled: 'Fuck For Forest', which portrays a social movement that promotes what...
This Saturday, May 25th, will be an international protest against Monsanto. More than 50 countries shout against the excesses against nature, farmers and consumers of the biotech company.
The Google search service is not free of prejudice. At least that is derived from a study by the University of Lancaster (United Kingdom), whereby search results could be seen as racist, sexist or homophobic.
Sometimes, as writers, we are lucky to find real treasure! This happened to me recently. My bathroom is being remodelled, and a couple of days ago the contractor came to me clutching a faded piece of paper. It was four newspaper pages, dated 15 January 1981, concertina folded, tha...
From a single drop of blood a group of researchers from the University Medical Center Erasmus of Rotterdam, Netherlands, you can specify the exact age of a person.
The Japanese company Hitachi Zosen in collaboration with scientists from Kyoto University have developed a new system of barriers that automatically responds to tsunami wave propagation and retains water currents.
The importance of natural resources and natural services are a necessary part if life on earth to support humans, animals, and plants.
Food, Rob already knew, was a problem not just for the hungry and the sick, food shopping often the greatest drain living costs, so could he come up with a cheaper and more efficient way to fuel the body than eating traditional food
Whilst the prosecutions in the USA are welcome news, in truth the vast majority of those involved, along with the real ring-leaders and most of the cash are unlikely ever to be caught, charged or recovered,
Nine men and three women, between the ages of 28 and 50, stood before the Boschfontein periodical court, in Mpumalanga, charged with murder and arson, having been arrested, with the inclusion of the community headman, called an iduna.
Their work is not aimed at taking sides in the religion and atheism debate, aiming instead to highlight that understanding religion in humans requires accommodating the fact of there being believers and non-believers in vast numbers.
The young girl was in fact only 13 when her adoptive mother hatched her bizarre scheme, and the daughter - even yet a virgin - is thought to have miscarried one child at only 14 yet still been forced into going on to have a baby at 16
These huge snakes, which usually grow to around 10ft long, have secured a foothold in the south-eastern USA, because pet snakes have either escaped or been released into the wild.
The aptly named Ocean Sole sandal recycling company - cleaning up East African beaches in the process - employs some 45 Nairobi workers in creating 100 different products - back in 2008 shipping an 18 ft giraffe to a Rome fashion week.
The sympathetic council are now doing all they can to assist Kathleen by speeding through her application and keeping costs to a bare minimum - acknowledging that an over-zealous official had clearly blundered when the lamp-post was installed.
All three around Cleveland, in Ohio - all found in a residential area just south of down-town Cleveland, only few miles from where they had all been snatched..
Crowd members even joined in the fun, the lady officers all in standard-issue dark police uniforms, sunglasses and caps, 80 of them doing the Psy signature horse-riding dance from the South Korean rapper.
Their getaway car, being pursued by a motorcycle cop, suddenly lurched as the robbers threw the safe at their pursuer - a smart move as it turned out - the stolen safe split, and money flew all over the street for at least 100 metres
