Hurricane Sandy- The Biggest in Atlantic History

Hurricane Sandy is a monster tropical hurricane that earlier affected Jamaica, Cuba, The Bahamas, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States, and is currently threatening the East Coast of the United States and Eastern Canada. Sandy developed from an elongated tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22. It became a tropical depression,...

Google phasing out internal use of Microsoft Windows: FT

Internet major Google is phasing out its internal use of Microsoft Windows operating system due to security concerns, which arose mainly after its China operations were hacked, a media report has said.The report by the UK daily Financial Times, citing several Google employees, said the internet giant is "phasing out internal use of Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns."The directive to move to other...

Toddler smokes 40 cigarettes a day!

Ardi Rizal is just a two-year-old boy, but is not less than a chain smoker.Rizal who lives in a fishing village Musi Banyuasin, Indonesia, smokes at least 40 cigarettes in a day. He got addicted to smoking after his father gave him a fag when he was just 18 months, reports thesun.co.uk.He weighs more than 25 kilograms and finds it almost impossible to run with...

Oil Hits Home, Spreading Arc of Frustration

PORT FOURCHON, La. — For weeks, it was a disaster in abstraction, a threat floating somewhere out there.Not anymore. In the last week, the oilslick in the Gulf of Mexico has revealed itself to an angry and desperate public, smearing tourist beaches, washing onto the shorelines of sleepy coastal communities and oozing into marshy bays that fishermen have worked...

Why We Exist: Matter Wins Battle Over Antimatter

The seemingly inescapable fact that matter and antimatter particles destroy each other on contact has long puzzled physicists wondering how life, the universe or anything else can exist at all. But new results from a particle accelerator experiment suggest that matter does seem to win in the end. The experiment has shown a small — but significant — 1 percent...

Black hole 'hurled out of galaxy'

A supermassive black hole may have been observed in the process of being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed. The finding comes from analysis of data collected by the US Chandra space X-ray observatory. However, there are alternative explanations for the observation. The work, by an international team of astronomers,...

Thailand backtracks on red-shirt protest crackdown

Thailand's leaders have suspended plans to cut supplies to anti-government protesters camped in Bangkok.Officials had announced that utilities, food, transport and telephones would be cut in a bid to move the protesters, known as the red-shirts. But they cancelled the measures after complaints from residents in the area. The government has been trying to...