A murder investigation starts after the discovery of the bodies of two adults and two children at a house in Leeds.

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Murder inquiry after bodies found

Those smarty-pants at Silver-Spring-based Discovery’s “Mythbusters” series, while making some point or another about homemade cannons — hopefully something like “Never ever shoot a homemade cannon within 100 miles of a residential neighborhood no matter what your producer says” — fired a homemade cannon that was supposed to land in a container of water in the San Francisco area. Instead, the cannonball blew through a house and a minivan. Read full article > >

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Discovery’s ‘Mythbusters’ accidentally shoots cannon into neighborhood

In announcing this week that he was suspending his GOP presidential campaign, Herman Cain quoted from “Pokemon: The Movie.” He might better have referenced PBS’s “This Old House,” Discovery’s “Swamp Loggers” or ABC’s “The Bachelor” ( a shocking final-rose gag, maybe) — shows beloved by conservative Republicans, according to the media-research company Experian Simmons. Read full article > >

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The Nobel prize for chemistry has gone to a single researcher for his discovery of the structure of quasicrystals.

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STOCKHOLM — Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosaic-like chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Shechtman’s discovery in 1982 fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter. It initially faced strong objections from the scientific community, and even got him kicked out of his research group in the United States. Read full article > >

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Three researchers are honoured with a Nobel prize in physics for their discovery that our Universe’s expansion is accelerating.

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In science, revolutions take time. Eu­reka moments can stretch into noggin-scratching years. And so, the day after news broke of a possible revolution in physics — particles moving faster than light, violating Einstein’s ultimate speed limit — a scientist leading the European experiment that made the discovery calmly explained it to a standing-room-only crowd at CERN , the giant particle accelerator straddling the Swiss-French border. Read full article > >

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Particles faster than light: Revolution or mistake?

Talk about being high-strung. Suspended 35 feet off the ground in a rock-climber’s harness, I had a death grip on my friend Tom’s T-shirt as we lurched through the Lateral Limbo, one of nine high-ropes challenges on the University of Richmond’s leafy campus. This was “Fearless Friday,” what the team-building company Challenge Discovery calls the feel-good Friday evening fun time on its Odyssey Course. My group, however, felt mixed emotions during our three hours traversing the 20- and 35-foot-high obstacles of cables, ropes, beams and wobbly platforms strung out between open-air treehouses. Read full article > >

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Police in Papua New Guinea investigating the discovery of a woman’s body at the home of acting prime minister Sam Abal arrest his adopted son.

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The Transportation Security Administration is moving to fire more than 30 of its security personnel at Hawaii’s Honolulu International Airport after the discovery late last year that they were not properly screening checked bags for bombs, the TSA said Friday. A dozen more TSA workers face suspension, the TSA said. Those slated for firing included workers responsible for the actual screening, several supervisors and the federal security director for the Honolulu airport, the TSA said. “TSA holds its workforce to the highest ethical standards and we will not tolerate employees who in any way compromise the security of the traveling public,” TSA Administrator John Pistole said in a statement announcing the actions. Read full article > >

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TSA workers face dismissal over baggage screening

Cross-checks on data that hinted at the discovery of a new sub-atomic particle fail to support the observation, say researchers.

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Tests ‘reject new particle claim’

A man has been detained after the discovery of a woman’s body at a house in Grangemouth at the weekend.

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New details are emerging from Osama bin Laden’s time in hiding, including the discovery of pornography. The CIA is trying to get a second round of interviews with his wives. (May 14) Read full article > >

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Pornography found in bin Laden raid

Things are amiss in Oprahland: The Oprah Winfrey Network has fired its chief, Christina Norman, just four months after the network debuted. The move comes after the chief executive of Discovery Communications admitted OWN had a “slower start” than…

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NEW YORK — Family and friends of a missing New Jersey prostitute have held a vigil on New York’s Long Island marking the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, the investigation of which has led authorities to the discovery of several dead bodies and speculation about a serial killer.

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