Biodisc-Visuals Unlimited, Inc. A cross-section of a cyanobacterium. Why scientists are heading underwater to search for a new generation of cures. by Michael Behar When Hendrik Luesch invited me to Florida to go snorkeling, I didn’t expect to be wading through brackish muck in the Indian River Lagoon, a 156-mile-long estuary. I’m traveling aboard a […]

Washington– More than a decade ago, a federal judge ordered the government to compensate farmers for discrimination and thousands were. But it wasn’t until February that the Obama administration announced a settlement with seventy thousand more farmers. It was up to Congress to dole out more than a billion dollars in damages. After missing multiple […]

via Yahoo! Finance Virginia resident Sue Van Glanden is so committed to shopping on Black Friday that she’s celebrating Thanksgiving a day early this year. “We’re having Thanksgiving on Wednesday, so I’ll have the whole day Thursday to rest up, get online to do research and check Twitter,” Van Glanden says, adding that she plans […]

via cnn.com Cleveland Indians outfielder Shin-Soo Choo helped South Korea’s baseball team clinch the gold medal Friday from defending champion Taiwan in the 16th Asian Games. But will it be enough to exempt him from serving in South Korea’s military? Cleveland’s general manager seems to think so, even though, as of Saturday, the Indians have […]

via cnn.com President Barack Obama stood by new controversial screening measures Saturday, calling methods such as pat-downs and body scans necessary to assure airline safety. Speaking at a NATO press conference in Lisbon, Portugal, the president called the balance between protecting travelers’ rights and their security a “tough situation.” Per the new rules, travelers may […]

  via cnn.com In 2010, the Year of the Tiger, about 3,600 of the majestic predators remain in the wild, their existence threatened by habitat-loss and poaching. If there is one man who can give hope to a species whose numbers have plummeted from 100,000 only a century ago, it would be Russian Prime Minister […]

  A State Department team is traveling to South Korea Sunday, after a U.S. scientist reported that North Korea has a new uranium enrichment facility. North Korean officials said the facility is operating and producing low-enriched uranium, according to Stanford University professor Siegfried S. Hecker. The scientist posted a report of his November 12 visit […]