College coaches making $20 million are football teams’ trophy assets

Indiana and Miami will square off for a national championship. The biggest stars may be two well-paid guys wearing headsets.
Local News Matters

Movies: Free films at SF libraries, ‘Shredding,’ ‘H Is for Hawk,’ ‘All You Need Is Kill,’ ‘Atropia’

New releases, surfer films and movies at local libraries are on the bill. The San Francisco Public Library continues to ...
New Scientist

Star appears to have vanished in a failed supernova

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...
Space.com on MSN

Sun unleashes powerful X-flare, CME hits Earth sparking severe geomagnetic storm

The powerful flare from sunspot region AR4341 peaked at 1:09 p.m. EST (1809 GMT), according to NOAA's Space Weather ...
Wired

Capturing the Moment a White Dwarf Exploded

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...