Archive for September, 2010

A Habitable Exoplanet — for Real This Time

After years of saying habitable exoplanets are just around the corner, planet hunters have finally found one. Gliese 581g is the first planet found to lie squarely in its star’s habitable zone, where the conditions are right for liquid water. “The threshold has now been crossed,” said astronomer R. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution [...]

Lil Boosie Death Penalty on Murder Charges

UPDATE: Lil Boosie Busted Smuggling Drugs into Angola A grand jury indicted Torrence “Lil Boosie” Hatch on Thursday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with first-degree murder charges for the death of Terry Boyd, 35, who died from shots fired through his home window by two men. These men, Michael Louding and Adrian Pittman, were hired by [...]

No link found between vaccine mercury and autism

It shows kids who had been exposed as babies to high levels of the preservative — through vaccines they received or their mothers received while pregnant — were no more likely to develop autism, including two distinct subtypes of the condition. “This study should reassure parents about following the recommended immunization schedule,” said Dr. Frank [...]