September2016

News Hour: These developments are described in a review published in EPJ C by Andrea De Simone and Thomas Jacques from the International School for Advanced Studies SISSA, in Trieste, Italy. EFT models offer the advantage...

News Hour: If you can understand Cantonese – and roughly 80 million people around the world can – then this tagline is actually a bit risqué. 7 in this language is pronounced “tsat,” which also happens to be...

News Hour: The more objects that are found at extreme distances, the better the chance of constraining the location of the ninth planet that Sheppard and Trujillo first predicted to exist far beyond Pluto (itself no...

News Hour: Researchers initially classified the star as elderly, perhaps a red supergiant. But a new study by a NASA-led team of researchers suggests that the object, labeled IRAS 19312+1950, might be something quite different —...

News Hour: Measurements show that the Milky Way galaxy weighs about 1-2 trillion times as much as our Sun. About five-sixths of that is in the form of invisible and mysterious dark matter. The remaining one-sixth...

News Hour: “Smells Like Teen Spirit” has always been a goodie. Now it is an oldie. The song that played a large part in vanquishing hair metal was released 25 years ago Saturday. That’s right. The...

News Hour: Luxury brand Nicholas K kicked off New York Fashion Week Thursday, bringing its desert inspired style to the city with a display of long caftan style dresses and asymmetrical jackets. Wearing shades of creams...

News Hour: Police and suspected criminals traded gunfire when the law enforcers were raiding a suspected militant den in Azimpur area of Dhaka this evening. Police have killed one militant and captured 3 female militants, whom...

News Hour: IOM organized its first humanitarian repatriation charter flight from southern Libya on 6 September, flying 171 stranded Nigerien migrants back to Niger. The flight departed from Taminhint Airport and arrived in Niamey, Niger in...

News Hour: Every day, 20 million people are drinking water full of dangerous levels of poisons. The vast majority even don’t know they are doing so. It kills an estimated 43,000 people in Bangladesh every year,...