Google Maps steps into Christchurch's past

Google Maps is stepping into the world of time travel with a new feature that allows users to view historic images as well as modern ones.The new Google street view was launched in Christchurch today showing the dramatic changes the city has undergone since it was flattened by the 2011...

Scientists Spot A Planet That Looks Like ‘Earth’s Cousin’

An artists rendering of Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit in the habitable zone of a distant star. T. Pyle/NASA/SETI Institute/JPL-CaltechScientists who have been hunting for another Earth beyond our solar system have come across a planet thats remarkably similar to our...

Google considering tiny cameras for contact lenses, patent application shows

Googles application, filed last month with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, explains that its futuristic device could, for example, flag hazardous objects in the path of a wearer and even extend his peripheral vision. (link)

'Haunting' art by Jewish children in WW2 concentration camp

By Chris LongBBC NewsHelga Weissova, who was 14 when she was liberated, painted the girls' dorm ahead of an inspection by the Red CrossA collection of sketches by Jewish children who were held at a concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia during World War Two is going on show at a...

This scholar still thinks ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ is ‘hilarious’ and ‘patently fake’

Scientists who examined a controversial papyrus fragment written in Egyptian Coptic in which Jesus speaks of his wife concluded that the papyrus and ink are probably not a modern forgery. (Reuters/Karen L King/Harvard Divinity School)(link)

'World's oldest' message in a bottle arrives home

A message in a bottle tossed into the sea in Germany 101 years ago and believed to be the world's oldest has been presented to the sender's granddaughter, a museum said on Monday.(link)

The 100 most distinct and rare birds

The world's 100 most distinctive and endangered birds have been determined.Scientists in the UK and US chose the birds based on their rarity, but also how distinctive their appearance, behaviour and evolutionary history was.The list of birds contains several of the world's largest and most...

'Blood Moon' of April 15 Will Fulfill Biblical Prophesy

During the early hours of April 15, many will look up to the sky and assume that the end has finally come. Do not fret however; no matter how apocalyptic the moon will look, it will still just be a Blood Moon. (Photo : REUTERS/Mark Blinch)(link)

Huge Asteroid 1998 QE2 Sails By Earth on Friday

A massive asteroid nearly 2 miles wide will zip by Earth on Friday (May 31), in a cosmic event that has grabbed the attention of stargazers, scientists and even White House officials. The asteroid poses no threat of hitting Earth during the flyby, NASA officials assure.. NASA chief Charles Bolden...

Genetically Modified Phosphorescent Sheep

Scientists in Uruguay announced Wednesday the birth of the first genetically-modified phosphorescent sheep.~LINK~