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5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week
(Newser) - A possible piece of Amelia Earhart's plane and a centuries-old virus found in an unsavory place make the list: Is This a Piece of Amelia's Plane? : A team that's been investigating the disappearance of Amelia Earhart says it identified a piece of metal retrieved in 1991 as... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, Science.
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Daredevil Readies 2 Tightrope Walks in Chicago, Without Net
(Newser) - Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda declared today that he's ready to attempt two back-to-back skyscraper crossings in Chicago, one of them blindfolded. For Sunday's televised walks, the 35-year-old daredevil promised to uphold the "Flying Wallendas" family tradition of working without a net or harness. City officials said they'... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Some Stores Buck Trend of Opening on Thanksgiving
(Newser) - The state of Black Friday mania is such that stores can now make headlines for announcing they'll be closed on Thanksgiving. Nordstrom, GameStop, and Costco are among the big-name retailers who will give employees the holiday off, reports CNNMoney . Nordstrom has made a tradition of the move in recent... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Dig Reveals Mass Sacrifice of Kids, Llamas
(Newser) - Physical anthropologist John Verano has seen plenty while working in Peru over the last 30 years. What he came across this summer in the village of Huanchaquito, however, is "not what we've seen before, especially on the coast," he says. Locals noticed bones poking out of a... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Space Tourism Ship Crashes in Test Flight; 1 Pilot Dead
(Newser) - A spacecraft intended to carry tourists into space someday crashed this afternoon in California's Mojave desert, with one pilot dead and another injured, reports AP . "Our first concern is the status of the pilots," says a Virgin Galactic statement following the loss of its SpaceShipTwo craft. NBC... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Ancient Meteorites Change Story of Earth's Water
(Newser) - At least when it comes to life as we know it, water is a basic requirement. So a new analysis of meteorites suggesting that water could have appeared on Earth 14 million years after the start of solar system some 4.6 billion years ago—more than a hundred million... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Last Chance to Send Your Name to Mars!
(Newser) - If you've concluded that a one-way ticket to Mars isn't for you, there's a tamer alternative: Send your name to Mars instead. Today is the last day to sign up to get your moniker on a "dime-sized microchip" that's being blasted into space on the... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Working Kills 54K Americans Each Year
(Newser) - If you've ever muttered under your breath, "This $%&* job is seriously going to kill me," you might actually be right. An average of 11 US workers die every day (yes, every single day) on the job, and another 50,000 or so die each year... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Worker Suspended for Using Robot Voice on Phone
(Newser) - It may sound pretty funny to answer customer-service calls at an IT help desk in a robot voice ... but Ronald Dillon didn't stop when his boss told him to, and now he's been suspended from his job at New York City's Health Department, without pay, for 20... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Better Late Than Never: Britain to Repay WWI Debt
(Newser) - Britain is beginning to pay back some of the $3.2 billion it borrowed to help pay for World War I. The government plans to redeem some national war bonds (issued in 1917) in February, when it refinances $348 million of debt issued as far back as the 18th century.... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Our Salamanders May Be in Trouble
(Newser) - When a fungus that has coexisted with amphibians in Asia for 30 million years recently found its way to the Netherlands, only 10 fire salamanders managed to escape death there. The fungus eats the skin, and that tends to prove fatal because amphibians perform much of their respiration through their... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Google Fined for Showing Cleavage on Street View
(Newser) - The latest embarrassment for Google Street View: Google has been fined more than $2,000 after its mapping feature showed an image of a woman's cleavage. A Montreal judge found that Maria Pia Grillo's privacy was invaded in having "part of her breast exposed," Gigaom reports,... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, November 1, 2014 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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