Earth may be crashing through dark matter walls

Earth is constantly crashing through huge walls of dark matter, and we already have the tools to detect them. That's the conclusion of physicists who say the universe may be filled with a patchwork quilt of force fields created shortly after the big bang. ...

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No crime" in paying for assistance during campaigning: SDA

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Democratic Alliance has said there is "no crime" in paying for assistance during the hustings.The party was referring to its use of supporters, many of them youths, who have been helping in the Punggol East by-election.The party sent out a statement in response to an online report of supporters being paid to assist in campaigning for its candidate, Desmond Lim.The...

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Will Obama's new methods be better?

President Obama announces his administration's new gun law proposals Wednesday.STORY HIGHLIGHTSDavid Gergen: Since re-election, Obama seems smarter, tougher, bolderHe says president outmanuevered opponents on taxes, key appointmentsDid Obama miss an opportunity to work cooperatively with GOP, Gergen asksGergen: Conservatives fear Obama is trying to run over themEditor's note: David Gergen is a senior...

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Te'o Denies Involvement in Girlfriend Hoax

Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te'o told ESPN that he "never, not ever" was involved in creating the hoax that had him touting what turned out to be a fictional girlfriend, "Lennay Kekua.""When they hear the facts, they'll know," Te'o told ESPN's Jeremy Schaap in his first interview since the story broke. "They'll know that there is no way that I could be a part of this.""I...

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Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate

Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world Species: Ambystoma maculatumHabitat: throughout the eastern USA and parts of southern Canada, leaving other salamanders green with envy ...

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Authorities checking on property agents who evade stamp duty

SINGAPORE: Channel NewsAsia understands authorities are conducting spot checks on at least seven property developers to find out if they have backdated their documents.It has been about a week since the latest round of property cooling measures kicked in.Among the changes is an increase in Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty of five to seven percentage points across the board.In a bid to help...

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Serena hits herself in face with racket

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Poll: Majority of Americans back stricter gun laws

By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus and Leigh Ann Caldwell As the president outlined sweeping new proposals aimed to reduce gun violence, a new CBS News/New York Times poll found that Americans back the central components of the president's proposals, including background checks, a national gun sale database, limits on high capacity magazines and a ban on semi-automatic...

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Armstrong Admits to Doping, 'One Big Lie'

Lance Armstrong, formerly cycling's most decorated champion and considered one of America's greatest athletes, confessed to cheating for at least a decade, admitting on Thursday that he owed all seven of his Tour de France titles and the millions of dollars in endorsements that followed to his use of illicit performance-enhancing drugs.After years of denying that he had taken...

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Battle of the bottle: How to curb overindulgers

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Cycling: IOC asks Armstrong to return Olympic medal

LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday asked disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong to return the Olympic bronze medal from the time-trial event at the 2000 Games in Sydney.The IOC had written to Armstrong late Wednesday to ask him hand back the medal, IOC spokesman Mark Adams told AFP.The IOC had to wait for world cycling's governing body to sanction Armstrong,...

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Tonight, we hear what he told Oprah

STORY HIGHLIGHTSMedia reports say Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugsSource tells CNN the former cyclist in talks to repay some sponsorship moneyInterview with Winfrey lasted 2 1/2 hoursArmstrong apologizes to cancer foundation workers for their stressStill own a Livestrong bracelet? Tell us about it.(CNN) -- Appetites already whet by Lance Armstrong's reported admission to Oprah...

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Manti Te'o says he's the victim of "girlfriend" hoax

Updated 11:20 p.m. ET SOUTH BEND, Ind. Notre Dame said a story that star Manti Te'o's girlfriend had died of leukemia — a loss he said inspired him all season and helped him lead the Irish to the BCS title game — turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against the linebacker. 13 PhotosManti Te'oNotre Dame Fighting Irish Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick held a press conference late Wednesday...

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Notre Dame: Football Star Was 'Catfished' in Hoax

Notre Dame's athletic director and the star of its near-championship football team said the widely-reported death of the star's girlfriend from leukemia during the 2012 football season was apparently a hoax, and the player said he was duped by it as well.Manti Te'o, who led the Fighting Irish to the BCS championship game this year and finished second for the Heisman Trophy,...

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NASA rover ready to drill into Martian rock

Victoria Jaggard, physical sciences news editor(Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)NASA's Curiosity rover is about to tap the rocky veins of Mars, which might yield clues to the Red Planet's watery past. Exploring a region not far from where it landed on 6 August, the Curiosity rover has found rocks shot through with veins of light-coloured minerals. Chemical analysis from one of the rover's remote-sensing...

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Japan mulling military equipment near disputed isles

TOKYO: Japan may station military equipment on islands near an archipelago at the centre of a dispute with China, officials said Wednesday, after a number of airborne near-confrontations.The defence ministry will ask for money in the next fiscal year to study the idea of putting mobile radars and communication systems on islands near the Japan-controlled Senkakus, which Beijing calls the...

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Online courses need human element

Online courses are proliferating, says Douglas Rushkoff, but will really succeed when they bring humanity to learning processSTORY HIGHLIGHTSDouglas Rushkoff: Education is under threat, but online computer courses are not to blameHe says education's value hard to measure; is it for making money or being engaged?He says Massive Open Online Courses lack human exchange with teachersRushkoff: MOOCs should...

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