SYDNEY  An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg that struck a glacier off Antarctica and dislodged another massive block of ice could lower the levels of oxygen in the world’s oceans, Australian and French scientists said Friday.The two icebergs are now drifting together about 62 to 93 miles (100 to 150 kilometers) off Antarctica following [...]

SHANGHAI Two prominent schools in China dispute allegations that hacking attacks on Google and other firms originated from them, a report said Saturday.The New York Times reported late Thursday that security investigators traced the hacking to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School in China.The official Xinhua News Agency cited an unnamed university [...]

JERUSALEM, Israeli archaeological Agency Wednesday (10/2/2010) to find a street in the Old city of Jerusalem, which became the central veins of the economy and trade about 1,500 years ago. The old road was discovered when workers from the city infrastructure to conduct excavations on the side of the Jaffa Gate, west of town. Here [...]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Astronomers have found a comet-like object they believe was created by the collision of two asteroids, possible siblings of the rogue rock blamed for killing the dinosaurs millions of years ago.The object, known as P/2010 A2, was circling about 90 million miles (144 million km) from Earth in the main asteroid belt [...]

CAIRO  Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Tuesday.The ruins of the Ptolemaic-era temple were discovered by Egyptian archaeologists in the heart of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great in the 4th century [...]

Students in kindergarten through high school will receive teaching materials on climate change. This material was developed from Climate4Classrooms (C4C), which is made by the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Meteorological Society, UK. Besides in Indonesia, the British Council also distribute C4C to students in China, Mexico and England. But not C4C separate subjects [...]

A total of 18 Australians were interested in exploring the cultural community of Bangka Belitung (Babel) is thick with indigenous Malayan.”As many as 18 people of Australians could be said to intern with the digging of culture Bangka until February 2010. They settled in several areas in this province,” said Head of Youth and Sports [...]

Astronomers announced this week they found a water-rich and relatively nearby planet that’s similar in size to Earth. While the planet probably has too thick of an atmosphere and is too hot to support life similar to that found on Earth, the discovery is being heralded as a major breakthrough in humanity’s search for life [...]

A steamy ‘waterworld‘ six times bigger than Earth has been discovered orbiting a faint star 40 light years away.The planet is believed to be too hot to sustain Earth-type life, but could consist of 75 per cent water. Evidence suggests it has an atmosphere, and astronomers believe it to be more Earth-like than any ‘exoplanet’ [...]

Stunning images of the intriguing hexagon shape crowning Saturn have been captured by Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft.Scientists have waited nearly 30 years for the Sun to illuminate the ringed planet’s north pole, which heralds the arrival of spring on Saturn.It has allowed them to take the most detailed pictures yet of the hexagon phenomenon, which has [...]