Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 26, 2011. The following statement is attributed to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Today, I join my fellow Americans in celebrating the anniversary of the passage of a great civil rights achievement, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As we look[Read More…]
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Public to Hunt Lost Gospels, Literature and Letters
UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–26 July 2011. Members of the public are being asked to help decode papyri, in order to find fragments of lost gospels, works of literature, and letters about everyday life in ancient Egypt, in a new project launched by Oxford University. Ancient Lives (http://ancientlives.org/) which launches today, is putting[Read More…]
Minnesota Court Says Pesticide Drift Is Trespass
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 26, 2011. Yesterday, in the case of Oluf Johnson v. Paynesville Farmers Union Cooperative Oil Company, Judge Ross of the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled that pesticides drifting from one farm to another may constitute trespass. Organic farmers Oluf and Debra Johnson filed a civil suit alleging that[Read More…]
Astronomers Reveal A Cosmic ‘Axis Of Evil’
Source: Hubblesite.org Liverpool-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers are puzzled by the announcement that the masses of the largest objects in the Universe appear to depend on which method is used to weigh them. The new work was presented at a specialist discussion meeting on ‘Scaling Relations of Galaxy Clusters’ organised by the Astrophysics[Read More…]
Galaxy Sized Twist In Time Pulls Violating Particles Back Into Line
(Graphic Supplied) University of Warwick, UK-(ENEWSPF)- A University of Warwick physicist has produced a galaxy sized solution which explains one of the outstanding puzzles of particle physics, while leaving the door open to the related conundrum of why different amounts of matter and antimatter seem to have survived the birth[Read More…]
Presidential Proclamation–Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 25, 2011. Generations of Americans with disabilities have improved our country in countless ways. Refusing to accept the world as it was, they have torn down the barriers that prohibited them from fully realizing the American dream. Their tireless efforts led to the enactment of the Americans[Read More…]
Study Links Birth Defects to Pesticides, Coal Smoke
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 25, 2011. Exposure to certain pesticides and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the womb has been linked to neural tube defects, which lead to conditions such as spina bifida, according to researchers at Peking University in China. The study finds elevated levels of the organochlorine pesticides DDT, alpha-hexachlorocyclohexane[Read More…]
Twisted Tale of our Galaxy’s Ring
In a strange twist of science, astronomers using the Herschel Space Observatory have discovered that a suspected ring at the center of our galaxy is warped for reasons they cannot explain. Image credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA-(ENEWSPF)- New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas[Read More…]
Massive Solar Eruption Close-up (Video)
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- On June 7, 2011 the Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME). This video uses the full-resolution 4096 x 4096 pixel images at a 1 minute time cadence and to provide the highest quality, finest detail version possible. It also shows the[Read More…]
Social media study: Conservatives were top tweeters in 2010 elections
Ann Arbor, MI-(ENEWSPF)- The results of a study on candidates’ use of Twitter in the 2010 midterm elections suggest that Republicans and Tea Party members used the social medium more effectively than their Democratic rivals. The University of Michigan study, among the first to examine the Tea Party’s social media[Read More…]
