Japans Fishing Industry Hit Hard after the Tsunami

After the tsunami hit Japan earlier this year, one thing that caught everyone’s attention was the tsunami hit nuclear plant in the country. But one more thing that should’ve been a hot topic of discussion but was not was the seafood industry. What once were the seafaring towns, fishing towns is now nothing else but [...]

Super-Black Material developed by NASA

NASA engineers have come up with a material that absorbs more than 99 per cent of all light that strikes it. The team of engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, reported the findings recently at the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference. The material, comprised of something like a shag carpet of [...]

Italy Pressurized to Push through the implementation of Reforms

Will this evening Italy come under the renewed pressure to give clarifications about its intentions of implementing economic reforms to reduce its debts. The European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, a spokesman for Olli Rehn, in a meeting of the eurozone finance ministers said,  this evening would be addressed by Giulio Tremonti , Italy’s finance [...]

Greek PM Survives through Confidence Vote

Prime Minister George Papandreou, who narrowly won last night’s vote of confidence in the Greek Parliament, said he will begin talks soon on forming a new coalition government. Greece’s embattled Prime Minister, on Saturday began efforts at forming a coalition government to secure broad approval for Greece’s latest international bailout deal and avert financial catastrophe [...]

NASA study suggest life below the surface on Mars

For years now NASA has collected data regarding the existence of abundant liquid water on the surface of the red planet from more than 350 sites. But this water has existed only for short duration of time during the end of the period lasting for hundreds of millions of years when the warm water had [...]

Power is Still Out For 1.6 Million in Northeast

After the rare and deadly October snowstorm, the residents of more than 1.6 million homes in the Northeast remained without power for days and some were told it could take 10 more days to restore electricity. The situation is really pathetic there. At the peak of the storm, more than 800,000 homes in Connecticut were [...]