Dying aspen trees sound alarm for world's forests

They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but that's not true for the US's iconic aspen trees. They appeared to survive a severe drought between 2000 and 2003, but it is now clear that it fundamentally weakened them. If...

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Football: West Ham recommended for Olympic Stadium move

LONDON: West Ham United took an important step towards moving into London's Olympic Stadium after being granted 'first bidder' status by the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) on Wednesday.The Premier League team are competing with third-tier football club Leyton Orient, a football business college and a Formula One racing group to become permanent tenants of the east London...

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Facebook has 350 apps with 1M+ monthly active users each

Facebook's app world is getting pretty big. The social networking giant today says there are now more than 350 apps on its Web site, with more than 1 million monthly active users each. On the mobile side, nearly 200,000 iPhone andAndroid apps are integrated with Facebook, including nine of the top 10 grossing iPhone apps. Additionally, more than 45 percent of the top 400 grossing iOS apps use the...

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Scientific Results From Challenger Deep

Jane J. Lee The spotlight is shining once again on the deepest ecosystems in the ocean—Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (map) and the New Britain Trench near Papua New Guinea. At a presentation today at the American Geophysical Union's conference in San Francisco, attendees got a glimpse into these mysterious ecosystems nearly 7 miles (11 kilometers) down, the former visited by filmmaker...

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Fiscal Cliff: Can Savings Be Found Without Sacrifice?

How does one come up with $4 trillion in revenue and spending cuts?That's the question members of Congress, the Obama administration and fiscal experts around the country are grappling with as "fiscal cliff" talks continue to stall.The fiscal cliff is a combination of the soon-to-expire Bush tax cuts coupled with a series of deep budgetary cuts to defense and domestic programs-...

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Back-to-basics money shot shows a cent's battle scars

Sumit Paul-Choudhury, editorThe euro has taken a bit of a battering of late - and not just in the financial markets. As you can see for yourself above, the surface of a 1-cent coin, while smooth to the naked eye, is pitted and scarred when viewed through a powerful microscope. To create this image, artist Martin John Callanan, a fellow at University College London based in the Slade Centre for...

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Iran claims US drone captured

TEHRAN: Iran claimed on Tuesday to have captured a small US drone that penetrated its airspace over Gulf waters, but the US Navy in the region denied any of its unmanned spy planes were missing.The naval arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said in a statement on the Guards website Sepahnews.com that "the unmanned US drone patrolling Persian Gulf waters, performing reconnaissance and...

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iPad shipments could hit 26 million this quarter, says analyst

Apple's latest iPads.(Credit:Brooke Crothers/CNET)TheiPad should ring up lots of holiday cheer for Apple, according to a forecast from analyst Sameer Singh.An analyst with mergers and acquisitions consulting group Finvista Advisors, Singh put together his projections for iPad shipments based on some historical cues.The second and fourth quarters have traditionally been the strongest ones for the iPad,...

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Pictures We Love: Best of November

Photograph by Qais Usyan, AFP/Getty ImagesThe family of a five-year-old Afghan girl, victim of an alleged rape by a 22-year-old man, sits at her hospital bedside in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, on November 12. News agencies reported that the assailant, a neighbor, was later detained by police.(Read about the continued struggle of women in Afghanistan in National Geographic magazine.)Why We Love It...

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Insiders Reveal 2012 Election Secrets

Pete Souza/White HouseThe 2012 election cycle came full circle last week when representatives from the Obama and Romney campaigns, as well as top advisers to many of the GOP primary candidates and several influential outside groups, gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government for a 2012 debrief — finally answering some of the lingering questions about the race.On neutral ground in Cambridge,...

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