Congressional Hearing Scheduled on Legislation to Regulate the Industry Department of the Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke announced agreement to delay for six months, until June 1, 2010, required compliance with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA). The move blocks regulations to implement the legislation [...]
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a compact object — either a neutron star or a black hole — that blasts twin radio-emitting jets of matter into space at more [...]
U.S. Workers Express High Degrees of Optimism, Loyalty to their Companies Despite one of the worst economic environments in American history, U.S. employees report surprisingly high levels of confidence in the overall direction of their companies and their management, according to a new employee confidence survey released today. Conducted by APCO Worldwide in partnership with [...]
International coalition advances marine conservation as part of the solution to climate change A large international coalition today urged the United States to support marine conservation options that will help mitigate climate change. The ‘Blue Climate Coalition,’ comprised of sixty-six conservation groups and interests and over 150 marine scientists and professionals, from 33 countries, issued [...]
National Cyber Security Alliance Finds that Security Questions Cause Online Retailers to Lose Sales As Americans gear up for the holiday shopping season and Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the online holiday shopping season on November 23, it is clear that Web site security plays a major part in consumers’ purchasing decisions, according to [...]
The U.S. education system neglects the needs of our gifted and talented students, leaving the nation ill-prepared to identify and effectively serve high-potential students, a new survey reports. The report – 2008-2009 State of the States in Gifted Education by the National Association for Gifted Children and the Council of State Directors of Programs for [...]
NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover, Spirit, on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap. Spirit has been lodged at a site scientists call “Troy” since April 23. Researchers expect the extraction process to be long and the outcome uncertain based [...]
Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT has reached a box office gross of $200 million worldwide, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced. The film has taken in $61 million domestically and more than $140 million internationally. Commenting on the announcement, Jeff Blake, Chairman of Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing and Distribution said, “Moviegoers and film critics everywhere have truly [...]
An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis. Undergraduate and graduate students at Texas Southern University in Houston developed the experiment that will fly as part of the STS-129 mission. The mission is scheduled to launch at 2:28 p.m. EST on Nov. [...]
Voters want the EPA to be given more power to regulate chemicals A poll conducted in August by Lake Research Partners found Americans very concerned with how chemicals are regulated for consumer use in the U.S. The findings come as overhaul of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) will be introduced soon in both [...]