Tuesday, September 22, 2009 NASA’s Cassini orbiter has sent back remarkable images from Saturn, revealing that the planet’s famous rings are far more bumpy than expected. Astronomers previously thought that the rings were almost completely flat, with changes in height of only a few metres. However analysis of the new images show ridges up to 4 kilometres tall, similar in […]
Hydrogen fuel cell cars promoted in various states, but U.S. federal funding cut
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 American Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is cutting US$100 million dollars from hydrogen fuel cell vehicle research and diverting the remaining $69 million to hydrogen fuel cell research for household current. Former president George W. Bush advocated the zero-emission vehicles and launched $1.2 billion for hydrogen fuel cell research over a number of years. President Barack […]
Ferry MV Suilven sinks in Suva, Fiji
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 MV Suilven, a ferry in service in Fiji, capsized and sank in Suva Harbour today. Around thirty people, all crewmembers, were on board. Local media report all were rescued. The 41-year-old vessel previously saw service in Scotland and New Zealand. The ship capsized early this afternoon and sank within an hour. It had been converted from […]
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Submitted by: Kaspar Schmidt Over time, Dr. James Watson, the esteemed Nobel Prize winner, established himself as a magnificent scientist. In fact, Watson was held in such high regard as Dr. Francis Crick, his Nobel Prize winning associate. Watson was a philosophical-yet-practical intellectual who applied liberal, deducible and introductory logic., who left no room for error in his experiments, specifically […]
Nagin, Landrieu advance to runoff in New Orleans mayoral election
Sunday, April 23, 2006 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Secretary of State Mitch Landrieu will most likely face each other in a May 20 runoff election for mayor of New Orleans. With all 442 precincts reporting from elections on Saturday, Nagin has reportedly received 41,489 votes (38%), leading all candidates but falling short of the majority needed to […]
Mars orbiter finds widespread evidence of water-bearing minerals
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found evidence of hydrated silica or opal, a form of mineral, over large areas in the Martian surface, including in the large martian canyon called Valles Marineris. The discovery was made by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer (CRISM) instrument on the orbiter. The findings are published by Ralph Milliken of Jet […]
Panama: Eleven years of a conflict between PPC and ex-workers of Port Authority
Friday, June 15, 2007 Eleven years ago the Panama Ports Company (PPC) got a concession to manage Panamanian Ports at the gates of the Panama Canal — Balboa and Cristobal. They made a contract with Panamanian State to get this concession. This concession began a conflict between ex-workers of these Ports (previously managed by Panamanian State by Port Authority) and […]
City Planning Board postpones decision on Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal
Buffalo, N.Y. Hotel Proposal Controversy Recent Developments “120 year-old documents threaten development on site of Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal” — Wikinews, November 21, 2006 “Proposal for Buffalo, N.Y. hotel reportedly dead: parcels for sale “by owner”” — Wikinews, November 16, 2006 “Contract to buy properties on site of Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal extended” — Wikinews, October 2, 2006 “Court date […]
CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate Max Lombardi running in Cambridge
Friday, September 26, 2008 On October 14, 2008, Canadians will be heading to the polls for the federal election. New Democratic Party candidate Max Lombardi is standing for election in the riding of Cambridge. Lombardi is an information technology specialist who has lived in Cambridge for 25 years. Held since 2004 by Conservative Gary Goodyear, the riding of Cambridge includes […]
Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Libertarian candidate Larry Stevens, Kitchener-Conestoga
Thursday, October 4, 2007 Larry Stevens is running for the Libertarian Party in the Ontario provincial election, in the Kitchener-Conestoga riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign. Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, New Democratic Party members, […]