Green Comet Lovejoy To Brighten Skies Until Mid-January 2015
Amateur astronomers are in for a treat even after a once-in-a-lifetime green comet made its closest approach to Earth – an event that will not happen again in 8,000 years.
Amateur astronomers are in for a treat even after a once-in-a-lifetime green comet made its closest approach to Earth – an event that will not happen again in 8,000 years.
Although Apple is considered as a leading innovator, it is Samsung that has introduced flexible phones such as the Galaxy Round and Galaxy Note Edge. However, Apple seems to have its own plans to create a flexible "electronic device" like a bendable and even foldable iPhone and recently got a patent for this. Whether this has indications on how the eagerly anticipated iPhone 7 turns out remains to be seen.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 might not have a curved screen but since its launch it has become hugely popular and the LG G Flex 2 is looking to dethrone it from its position at the top of the smartphone market.
In a head-on comparison between the new LG G Flex 2 and the older Nexus 6, the latter enjoys the advantages of having a bigger screen and better bang for the buck.
After months of feverish anticipation and several leaks about its specs, the Galaxy A7 finally made it appearance before the general public at a recent event hosted by Samsung. This event was held in Malaysia to launch the Galaxy A3 and A5. Samsung also took advantage of the opportunity to present its Galaxy A7 to the attendees.
For the first time, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N.A.S.A.) will embark on a mission to the International Space Station (I.S.S.) that will run for a year to test the physiological and psychological effects of long-term space flight.
The ASUS ZenFone 2 was launched recently at CES 2015, and it immediately caught the attention of reporters at the show. The smartphone is packed with a record-breaking 4GB of RAM. It is the first smartphone to have the same size of RAM as many current laptops have.
At the recent CES 2015, Panasonic announced that the Lumix DMC-CM1 smartphone, which the company released in September 2014, would come to the U.S. market sometime during this summer. In its release last year, the Lumix CM1 smartphone was made available in limited numbers to the French and German markets.
A group of researchers may have just discovered the most Earth-like planet with a rocky surface and flowing water outside the Solar System. Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said that planet Kepler 438b, which orbits a distant star in the constellation of Lyra 475 light years away, could be as hospitable to life as Earth.
Kodak had long hinted that it was designing a smartphone. Finally on Tuesday, the company launched IM5, its first Android phone, during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2015) in Las Vegas.
The LG G Flex 2 and the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge come with great design and curved screens, but they look completely different as one features a bent tip that flows over its right edge while the other has a fully curved body and screen.
A Canadian woman in her 70s received approval for assisted suicide after becoming unable to cook for her family and feeling that she no longer had value, according to two Toronto psychiatrists who say Canada’s MAiD system has expanded too far. University of Toronto psychiatry professors Madeline Li and Gary Rodin described the case in a New York Times op-ed published Monday while warning about the direction of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program.
Two Republican senators have introduced legislation aimed at protecting students preparing for religious vocations from losing federal financial aid because their chosen careers may lead to lower earnings. Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced the Religious Education Fairness Act last week to amend federal higher education law and protect certain theology and religious studies programs from becoming ineligible for Title IV aid based on graduate earnings.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the 2022 Dobbs ruling that ended the federal constitutional right to abortion was a case that demanded judicial courage, while predicting that the court is unlikely to overturn its 2015 same-sex marriage decision. Alito made the remarks in an interview with CBS News’ Jan Crawford ahead of the release of his book, *So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution*, reflecting on major cases from his two decades on the high court.
A nearly century-old cross and a Nativity display in Los Angeles’ historic El Pueblo district can remain in place after a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision not to order their removal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday declined to reverse a district court ruling that rejected atheist plaintiff Jack Gerritsen’s request to remove the displays from Olvera Street.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has launched a humanitarian effort to bring at least 500 Nigerians home from South Africa. The first 100 returnees arrived at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Sept. 24 after flying from Johannesburg.