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An incident that took place earlier this year forced the American space agency to temporarily suspend its balloon science program, pending a full review. Now, two months after the document was released, NASA is finally comfortable with letting its balloons carry our science sorties again.According to a press release ... |
16 December 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Statistics show that students who drink and drive are still a major cause of concern, as far as public health goes. Young adults tend to engage in risky behaviors throughout their college years, but none is arguably more dangerous than drinking and then getting behind the wheel. According to a new research, it would ... |
1 June 2010
03:21 GMT |
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Many people fear that robots may be taking over our world. Critics protest each time the military announces the development of a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or similar robot featuring advanced weaponry and intelligence, saying that accidents are bound to happen if decisions are left to the merciless, calculated... |
8 May 2010
06:14 GMT |
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The Alice Springs Balloon Launching Center, near the town of Alice Springs, in the northern territory of Australia, was today the scene of a serious accident, which took place as NASA scientists attempted to launch a new observations balloon. The massive, 400-foot (121-meter) object suffered an unexpected glitch shor... |
29 April 2010
10:58 GMT |
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Scientists in the United States looking into ways of stopping progressive spinal cord injuries following accidents may have stumbled upon a method of doing this that actually works. In their experiments, they used the dye known as Brilliant Blue G (BBG), which is similar to those used to color foods. The University o... |
28 July 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Seeking to find a reason why teenagers in the United States engage in such risky behavior as “car surfing,” researchers at the Case Western University School of Medicine, in Cleveland, Ohio, have set out to analyze what drives the young ones to perform true acts of madness. Moving past a simple neurologic... |
21 July 2009
20:51 GMT |
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People who suffered heavy disfigurement following an accident, or who were simply born this way, tend to walk around the city with their faces covered, and with a fast pace that doesn't allow many others to see them, because, if they would, they would stare. And most of them, psychologists say, wouldn't do ... |
26 May 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Researchers in the automotive industry start to focus their efforts on the safety of pedestrians as well, rather than continuing to laden the inside of vehicles with numerous safety features, such as seat belts, airbags and automatic driver-assist systems. The concern is caused by the fact that even collisions that t... |
16 April 2009
11:03 GMT |
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A serious plane crash has taken place today in Holland, when a Turkish airliner collapsed to the ground while carrying 135 people. Preliminary reports hint at the fact that light fog was responsible for the crash, which nevertheless claimed the lives of 9 people, according to Dutch airport officials. An additional 50... |
25 February 2009
14:01 GMT |
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On February 8th, small Jeremy Doble disappeared while playing with his brother and their dog on the banks of a flooded mangrove swamp, in Australia. Since then, parents have been looking for him like crazy, turning the swamp upside down and scouting every corner. In the end, authorities started examining the bellies ... |
18 February 2009
06:01 GMT |
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A new investigation led by researcher Bruno Frey at the University of Zurich in Switzerland has discovered that English passengers aboard the HMS Titanic had a higher fatality rate than others, simply because they did not forget their manners in time of crisis, and were more likely to wait orderly in queues rather th... |
21 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The World Health Organization (WHO) says that one of the main causes for the incredibly large number of car crashes that occur in the world yearly is poor street lighting, in that, in some places, even the basic light poles are missing, or have never been there. A new study from Cochrane Researchers shows that some o... |
21 January 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Paintball is now one of the most popular sports in terms of recreation in the developed world, and people play it dressed up properly and using protection. Nevertheless, accidents can occur and, of those, the most dangerous involve hits to the eye. The high velocity at which the ball travels can cause blindness in an... |
16 January 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Comparing the dimensions of an intercontinental airliner against those of a small bird may not yield results that will back up the conclusions that several commissions investigating plane crashes came to, namely that stray birds or flocks managed to destroy propellers and cause significant damage to the engines, forc... |
16 January 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Accidental deaths among children total a whopping 830,000 each year, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report recently revealed. Most of these deaths occur in Africa, or in the poorest regions of the globe, where children are offered inadequate protection against car traffic, or are not safeguarded from falling i... |
11 December 2008
06:58 GMT |
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Whether you're an accident fanatic that wants to know each and every morbid detail, or you're just concerned about the road you'll be taking your kids to school on, it doesn't matter. This map tells you about the most dangerous roads on the planet and gives additional information about them to tho... |
21 January 2008
17:46 GMT |
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Although there's some subtle irony in looking at a gorgeous car smashed into a tree and it kind of makes you sit back and wonder what the point of owning a nice car is, if you know that about one of three people in traffic will be injured or killed in a car accident (and at this point, you start counting the mem... |
7 January 2008
12:06 GMT |
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