Recently, scientists from Bristol University (UK) and the Carnegie Institution (USA) found that virtually the entire globe is involved in the “production” of diamonds, except, perhaps, the nucleus. In a Brazilian mine minerals were discovered that appear to have formed at the depths of 400-660 kilometers from the surface of our planet.
 Even those who never touched a diamond know that... 

The Phobos-Grunt lander is designed to land on the Martian moon Phobos, return soil samples to Earth, study its physicochemical characteristics, collect data on the origin of Mars moons, Mars atmosphere and the interaction between small bodies of the Solar System and solar winds. Constructors of the Fobos-Grunt probe have revealed details of the space mission to Mars, which is to break a 20-year absence... 

Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result: Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity is being challenged by findings by the Cern team. Scientists have said they have clocked subatomic particles travelling faster than light – a feat that, if true, would break Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity and undermine laws that underpin physics. The Cern team says a neutrino... 

A screen shot shows how the Foldit program posed the monkey-virus molecular puzzle. Video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years, and those scientists say the accomplishment could point the way to crowdsourced cures for AIDS and other diseases. “This is one small piece of the puzzle in being able to help with AIDS,” Firas Khatib, a biochemist at the... 

Commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili A senior Iranian Army commander says the Islamic Republic is building a more sophisticated version of Russia’s S-300 missile defense system at home. “The flaws and defects of the (Russian) S-300 system have been corrected in the indigenous version of the system and its conceptual designing has been... 

Sneaky Samsung is supposedly preparing a patent suit against Apple that should ban the next-gen iPhone sales in Korea. This was shared by a senior Samsung executive, wishing to remain anonymous, with The Korea Times. The soon-to-be patent suit will involve Samsung’s wireless technology patents, which will supposedly be used by Apple in the iPhone 5 (or 4S). Apparently the Korean manufacturer... 

Stealthy and bulletproof: A road-going Mercedes ML, the type which has been modified with armour plating and jamming technology, and allegedly given to Muammar Gaddafi by France. Muammar Gaddafi has escaped in a state-of-the-art armoured vehicle provided by Nicolas Sarkozy, it emerged today. In the latest extraordinary twist to the Libyan rebellion, it emerged that the French President gave the ‘green... 

Gamers at the Tokyo Game Show use Xbox 360's motion sensor to 'dance' in a game - but a spokesman said new titles could 'project' game worlds into the living room. The latest 3D televisions let images ‘leap out’ of the screen – provided you’re wearing a pair of geeky glasses. But new ‘holographic’ technology might project images right into your... 

The newly discovered Kepler-16b orbits two suns. Scientists say NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has for the first time detected a distant planet with a double sunset orbiting two waltzing stars. According to the report published in the journal Science, there is a double sunset on Kepler-16b when the day ends. “This is really a stunning measurement by Kepler,” Reuters quoted Alan Boss of... 

Scientists working on the Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) experiment may have recorded evidence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) – a crucial step towards solving the mystery of ‘dark matter’, a material thought to make up the huge majority of the matter in the universe, but which is extremely difficult to detect. WIMPs are bodies... 

Matteo Ianneo An Italian explorer interested in astronomy and exploring of Mars has yet again discovered a great structure on Mars which is very similar to the Cydonia region of Mars where there are a couple of pyramids and what looks like an Egyptian sphinx. Mr. Matteo Ianneo’s discovery however looks like the head of an Asian, more specifically a Japanese warrior, a Samurai. Although shocking,... 

European astronomers have claimed to discover at least 16 new so-called “Super-Earths” —planets similar to our own but many times denser— of which one is potentially habitable. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) said the exoplanets were seen through the High Accuracy Radical velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) telescope in Chile. “The harvest of discoveries from HARPS has exceeded... 

Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it’s right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it’s that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially devastating consequences for life on Earth. To date, Fukushima has already released 168 times... 

THE PURPOSE: NASA's "recommendations" of no-fly zones are for preserving and protecting Apollo missions' historical sites and artefacts. No-fly zones will come into effect on the moon for the very first time by the end of this month! Why, even buffer zones that spacecraft may have to avoid will come into existence. The reason: avoiding any spraying of rocket exhaust or dust onto certain... 

Petteri Alinikula, Nokia's Head of Product Sustainability and one of the testers in action on the Baltic Sea. Finnish cell phone giant Nokia is on a mission to find out how to apply solar power technology to cell phone technology. The company started a project in June called Nokia Solar Charging Project which is coming to its conclusion at the end of September. It sent a group of people on the...