Wednesday, May 12A handout picture made available by the Israeli Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center (IMMRAC) shows a grey whale off the coast of Israel. The appearance of the grey whale off the coast of Israel has stunned scientists, in what was thought to be the first time the giant mammal has been seen outside the Pacific in several hundred years.
The ancient text shown in this drawing was discovered on a shard of pottery in Israel, and turned out to be the earliest known example of Hebrew writing.
Scientists have discovered the earliest known Hebrew writing – an inscription dating from the 10th century B.C., during the period of King David’s reign.
Young children spanked by their parents may grow up to be happier and more successful than those who have never been hit, a study has found.
Hum-winger … streams of pink and red gas look like fragile insect wings
A COSMIC butterfly stretches its wings in a stunning new picture from the Hubble space telescope.
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
—Psalms 19:1
Whirl of fortune … snap of a distant galaxy
But the delicate insect is really vast streams of gas racing at over 600,000mph from a dying star.
The image tops several spectacular new snaps taken by the orbiting eye on the sky since it was repaired and upgraded in daring spacewalks by shuttle astronauts in May.
Its new camera is ten times better – and its digital “film” was built by a British company, e2v Technologies of Chelmsford, Essex.
Another dramatic new shot from Nasa’s Hubble family album shows the Cat’s Eye nebula – a cloud of gas heated to millions of degrees around another doomed star in the constellation of Draco, the dragon.
Hubble also peered six million light-years beyond our own Milky Way to capture a galaxy of billions of stars in the Great Bear.
What a gas … Cat’s Eye stares across space
A suggested lesson plan that calls on students to write letters to themselves about what they can do to help President Obama following his address to students nationwide is troubling and establishes the president as a “superintendent in chief,” education experts told FOXNews.com.
Al Gore questioned at hearing: ‘How long are we going to be around as a species?’…
The lawmakers gazed in awe at the figure before them. The Goracle had seen the future, and he had come to tell them about it.
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Speaking out two years after being embroiled in a gay sex scandal, former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard said Friday his sexual identity is complex and can’t be put into “stereotypical boxes,” but that his relationship with his wife is stronger than ever.
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Participants applaud speakers in the Faith in Action Interfaith Gathering at the Wells Fargo Theater in the Colorado convention Center in Denver on Sunday Aug. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Bill Ross)
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The Pope, in Australia this week-end, is playing a clever hand in his cautious, long-range intervention in the Anglican row. Apart from his ecclesiastical status, he also heads a secular state which has its own international diplomatic corps. It shows.
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