GENEVA, Switzerland (PNN) - March 14, 2013 - It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago.

In what could go down as one of the great Eureka! moments in physics - and win somebody the Nobel Prize - scientists said Thursday that after a half-century quest, they are confident they have found a Higgs boson, the elusive subatomic speck sometimes called the "God particle".

CARACAS, Venezuela (PNN) - March 7, 2013 - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has died aged 58, after 14 years in power.

Chavez had been seriously ill with cancer for more than a year, undergoing several operations in Cuba.

BREMEN, Germany (PNN) - March 4, 2013 - German university student Dennis Siegel invented a device that captures electromagnetic fields like WiFi and radio waves and converts them to stored energy in batteries.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 1, 2013 - Eighteen-year-old Taylor Wilson has designed a compact nuclear reactor that could one day burn waste from old atomic weapons to power anything from homes and factories to space colonies.

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (PNN) - February 21, 2013 - Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. has defended his comments from earlier this week under criticism from local reporters who said his remarks that strict gun legislation could lead to a “second Amerikan Revolution” were inflammatory.

Major solar storms possible.

GREENBELT, Maryland (PNN) - February 20, 2013 - A colossal sunspot on the surface of the sun is large enough to swallow six Earths whole, and could trigger solar flares this week, NASA scientists say.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - February 15, 2013 - It started in Berlin. Freedom fighters, donning black bloc attire, hit the streets at night in pairs, small groups, or alone to smash and dismantle the CCTV surveillance cameras adorning the city streets.

By Wendy McElroy

February 13, 2013 - Anyone planning to permanently leave the Fascist Police States of Amerika should give deep thought to whether he or she is emigrating or defecting.

NEW YORK (PNN) - February 11, 2013 - Security and law enforcement experts agree the biggest threat to the individual today is identity theft. It often begins with online invasion of privacy.

By Brent Johnson

The American revolution was a remarkable event. Against the might of the British monarchy and her minions of well-trained troops, a small, rag-tag, untrained corps of citizen-soldiers wrested control of the colonies from subjection to the king. Such an amazing accomplishment required amazing men; men of character and principle, men of morals and values; men who could distinguish between right and wrong, without an order from the king.