http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us Green-colored polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo. Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1270624 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:57:24 -0700 There has been a lot of chit chatter about Honda's new 5-door hybrid that is apparently a Prius-killer. Up to now there has been very little information available. Honda finally announced and shared some picture of the Honda Insight Concept.... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1262284 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:57:37 -0700 Darren Taylor is not here to dazzle the Olympic crowd. His only goal is to stay alive. He launches from 35 feet as if he is an eagle and land with a splat into 12 inches of water. The landing... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1252019 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:13:13 -0700 In search of planets and the summer Milky Way, astronomer Tunç Tezel took an evening road trip. Last Saturday, after driving the winding road up Uludag, a mountain near Bursa, Turkey, he was rewarded by this beautiful skyview to the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1252016 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:06:48 -0700 A $350 million high school in Los Angeles that has gone through many delays as a result of environmental, seismic and legal troubles has finally opened . The school has been behind schedule for almost a decade. Many students have... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1251904 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:30:31 -0700 At first glance, the Helix Nebula (aka NGC 7293), looks simple and round. But this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, produced near the end of the life of a sun-like star, is now understood to have a surprisingly complex... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1251902 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:05:54 -0700 On July 4th, 2005, the Deep Impact spacecraft directed a probe to impact the nucleus of Comet Tempel 1. Still cruising through the solar system, earlier this year the robotic spacecraft looked back to record a series of images of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1246465 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:37:53 -0700 Astronomers turn detectives when trying to figure out the cause of startling sights like NGC 1316. Their investigation indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started, about 100 million years ago, to devour a smaller spiral galaxy... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1242908 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:35:06 -0700 China has brought forward the launch date of its third manned space flight to late September, a report said Tuesday. The launch of Shenzhou VII is now expected to take place between September 17 -- the end of the Beijing... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1236589 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:18:00 -0700 Vladimir Putin was dismissive of European leaders today who suggested that concrete action would be taken against Russia after its military action in Georgia - including suspension from the G8. The Russian Prime Minister - shown in new macho-style pictures... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1236547 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:29:01 -0700 Scientists have found an animal that spends his whole life drinking alcohol in the jungles of Southeast Asia. That animal is a pen-tailed tree shrew (Ptilocercus lowii) which resembles a small rat. The pen-tailed tree shrew feeds on nectar of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1229131 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:44:51 -0700 Contrary to the famous myth, you can't see the Great Wall of China from the Moon ... even during a total solar eclipse. But on August 1 you could see the Moon eclipsing the Sun from the Great Wall. In... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1228380 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:06:58 -0700 What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth? Visible are snow peaked mountains near and far, tremendous cliffs, distant plateaus, the tops of clouds, and a dark blue sky. Mt. Everest stands 8.85 kilometers above... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1224168 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:09:53 -0700 Here is a project in Canada that is probably supported by donations from the oil industries. A group of scientist are determining if turbines make bat lungs explode. Sounds pretty crude. The project is to prove turbines are bad cause... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1221065 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:12:49 -0700 11 Month Old Colombian Baby Weighs 62 Pounds. Doctors are trying to determine why this baby weighs that much. This is the average weight for an 8 year old. The mother said the boy started to grow after he was... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1220565 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:16:45 -0700 In a rare feat, doctors at a hospital in Lucknow, India have reconstructed the right bronchus of a two-year-old boy, it was announced here Friday. It took three hours to reconstruct the right bronchus of Mohammed Salim at the Chhatrapati... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1215076 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:59:37 -0700 The Russian-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov will inaugurate the "largest mosque in Europe" on October 17 in Chechnya, the Russian official news agency Novosty reported. Over 10,000 worshipers will be able to pray inside the mosque, which will be named... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1210435 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:14:34 -0700 Advertising regulators in the UK have ruled that one of Apple's iPhone television commercials mislead customers and ordered it banned from further broadcast. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it received complaints from two local viewers who took issue with... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1205471 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:14:49 -0700 Arctic Ocean sea ice has melted to the second lowest minimum since satellite observations began, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Sea ice melt recorded on Monday exceeded the low recorded in 2005, which had... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1205412 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:07:13 -0700 Israeli paratrooper Radi Kaiof has been paralyzed for the past 20 years. Thanks to a new device called ReWalk he now walks down the street with a dim mechanical hum. That is the sound of an electronic exoskeleton moving the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1192488 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:50:03 -0700