From now on, the US plane passengers will be “undressed.” Special services obtained equipment that will scan passengers, checking them under the clothes. Airports personnel believe that this measure would help to prevent terrorist attacks and speed up security control. The innovation was caused by an attempt of a terroristic attack on board of Northwest [...]

A new report drawn up by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) indicates that there is a correlation between the ozone layer and climate change and also points towards a success in efforts to stop the ozone gap from spreading. However, there is another side to the coin. The [...]

A hacker attack Thursday( 06.08.2009) shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems. Twitter said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through. The fact that a relatively common attack [...]

    In early October, a powerful meteor shower will come down to Earth. It will be brought by comet Giacobini-Zinner, which passes near our planet quite often. However, meteors shower are rear enough, but it is possible that they have contributed to the emergence of gold on the planet and even the origin of [...]

A Russian businessman has filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court accusing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of failing to act properly, a leading Russian business daily . Kommersant wrote that the lawsuit filed by the businessman from the city of Buguruslan in the Orenburg Region, the Volga Federal District, was against Putin not as [...]