The Ashes

Do you remember the times when you and your girlfriends used to have pajama parties? Do you remember how much fun these evenings of polishing toe nails and finger nails could be? Perhaps what sticks most in your mind is the camaraderie you felt with the girls your age and how much you all bonded [...]

FAQ: How can the unemployment rate fall if the economy is losing net jobs, especially since the population is growing? This data comes from two separate surveys. The unemployment Rate comes from the Current Population Survey (CPS: commonly called the household survey), a monthly survey of about 60,000 households. The jobs number comes from Current [...]

The DOL reports weekly unemployment insurance claims fell to 550,000 from 588,000 the week before. In the week ending Aug. 1, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 550,000, a decrease of 38,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 588,000. The 4-week moving average was 555,250, a decrease of 4,750 from the [...]

Cells from flakes of skin have grown into living, breeding mice, through a bit of biotechnological wizardry. This feat helps confirm that reprogrammed adult cells, considered a potentially convenient source of stem cell therapies, share the shape-changing powers of embryonic stem cells. The goal was to create an animal made entirely from reprogrammed cells, and [...]

A desert plant has apparently figured out how to water itself. Ecologists had been puzzling over the desert rhubarb for years: Instead of the tiny, spiky leaves found on most desert plants, this rare rhubarb boasts lush green leaves up to a meter wide. Now scientists from the University of Haifa-Oranim in Israel have discovered [...]

Only two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they’ve never been able to find one until now. Astrophysicists identified what appears to be the first-ever medium-sized black hole, pictured in an artist’s rendition above, with a mass at least [...]

The enemy of our enemy may be our new partner in stopping a global health crisis.With World Malaria Day (April 25) around the corner, new discoveries suggest our greatest allies in the fight against malaria may be the mosquitoes themselves. Although saddled with a lousy public image, mosquitoes have immune systems that actually kill 80 [...]

I don’t know what’s crazier, the fact that this family plans to ride around the U.S. on bike or the fact that they are doing it all on a quint bike. Bill and Amarins Harrison along with their three kids plans to ride their custom bicycle from Florida to Alaska. The family left from Renfro [...]

The Victoria Transvaal is a 67.89-carat, brownish-yellow pear shaped stone. It was cut from a 240-carat crystal that was found in the Transvaal, South Africa. Victoria Transvaal Diamond The first cutting produced a 75-carat 116-facet stone that measured 1 x 1³/8 inches; a recutting retained the same length and width, but reduced the depth to [...]

Tesla Motors said that they have earned profit last month.  This is the first time the company has made a profit since 2002.  The company made $1 million on $20 million revenue in July after shipping 109 Roadsters.  The company said that the profit was due to improved margins on the two-seater car and a [...]