Infowars.com | Radiation left over from weapons testing in the 1950s and 60s.

The Verge/Washington Post | code was originally stolen in a network breach in 2006, then used for randsom

Washington Post | If approved, Obama will sever NASA’s partnership with European Space Agency to send probes to Mars

The Independent | World’s new largest airliner may be grounded to a glitch in its engineering

Guardian | Other tycoons have also funded series of reports into future geoengineering of the climate

Daily Mail | Found in a cave on Spain’s Costa del Sol.

ENE News | Just four Sieverts per hour is a fatal dose – worst contamination is just feet from groundwater

Real Science | Strange that NASA’s Hansen isn’t talking about this remarkable event.

BBC | American space agency looks set to pull the plug on its joint missions to Mars with the European Space Agency.

Joe Wright | Fukushima has been an unfortunate wake-up call to the planetary fallout that nuclear power harnesses.

Press TV | Iran has made major breakthroughs in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing important military equipment and systems.

Press TV | The newly found planet, called GJ 667Cc, has a mass 4.5 times that of Earth.

RT | Online collective Anonymous is taking credit for crashing the website of the US Department of Homeland Security.

Washington Post Facebook is friend the feds, ready to splash cash for its own A Team of insider lobbists

When Tech Fails | There is a serious risk present regarding the planet’s 450 nuclear reactors

Michael Cooney | The piracy, counterfeit and copyright battle has moved to the Super Bowl.

Corporate Accountability International | Its stated mission: to “transform the water sector” by establishing “new normative approaches to water governance”

Daily Mail | Scientists believe they have found a way to read our minds…

The Daily Bell | If Facebook is not what it seems, then what it is?

Guardian | Research paves way for brain implants to translate thoughts of people who have lost power of speech

The Independent | New breed of giant pythons are threatening other Florida wildlife with extinction

London Telegraph | Plans to force smart meters on public have been shelved over health, privacy fears and legal costs

Washington Post | Google is now developing a fully autonomous vehicle that can pilot itself

Daily Mail | Shipwreck surveyors found a giant remarkable, but strange object in the depths of the Baltic Sea

Mail Online | Unexplained material solidified before being released in droplets among the hail stones

Eric Allen Bell | If you were raised in front of a TV set, as most of us were, you learned that life is about waiting to be entertained.

Israel Defense | First time that an IDF UAV crashed during flight, details of the incident are under investigation

Mail Online | Solar output goes through 11-year cycles, and Cycle 25 will be bringing us a long deep freeze

Daily Mail | Met Office releases new figures which show no warming in 15 years.

Mail Online | ‘Forced to stand for 24 hours, suicide nets, toxin exposure and explosions’ – all in a day’s work

Rady Ananda | “Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now,” they write.

John Fitzgerald | On a heavy spraying day, we talked to passers-by on what they made of the persistent contrails blanketing the city.

Wall Street Journal | Leading scientists draft new statement saying there’s no need to ‘decarbonize’ world’s economy

Mail Online | Hollywood won a small victory, but the real war has only just begun

Washington Post | Much hyped iPhone feature is the ultimate guzzler of bandwidth imaginable

Kinston.com | The philanthropic arm of Monsanto Company is launching America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education.

Daily Mirror | Male house mice don’t just squeak but sing melodic love songs to attract female partners, just like birds.

AP/Washington Post | CA cash-rich electronics firm left Microsoft in its wake, along with oil giant Exxon

Mail Online University of Texas lab have successfully cloaked a 3-D object for the first time (so they say)

NPR | At some point, governments may decide “to do something desperate to protect our food and our people,” Ken Caldeira said.

Ethan A. Huff | New Hampshire quickly gaining momentum to be the first entire US state to outlaw adding fluoride chemicals to public water supplies.

Guardian | The use of satellite uplink jamming is spreading, and the international media body wants new safeguards

Fox News | Powerful M9-class solar storm unleashed a coronal mass ejection toward Earth in early hours of Jan. 23

Mail Online | Subjects actively did not make the effort to remember when they thought they could look it up later

Mail Online | Excavation site in South Africa nets the oldest dinosaur fossils, pushing life on earth further back

Washington Post | Scientists are planning to build a telescope that will capture the so-called ‘event horizon’

Kevin McCaney | Impact of the largest solar storm in almost seven years is expected to hit Earth Jan. 24.

All Gov | Latest mega intergovernmental initiative will be a gold mine for a number of contractors involved

Bloomberg Business Week | Climatists’ solar revolution was overly dependent state subsidies, now a massive waste

Boston Globe | Scientists created easier-to-spread versions of deadly bird flu.