This week the NFL suspended the New York Jets top pass rusher Calvin Pace. The reason for the four game suspension is because Pace violated the leagues substance abuse policy. One has to wonder just how the Jets defense will hold up without Calvin on the field.

The mechanism behind different types of lightning may now be understood, thanks to a combination of direct observation and computer modeling reported by a team of researchers from New Mexico Tech and Penn State.

The UK's Royal Air Force has launched fighter jets to intercept eight Russian military planes flying in airspace patrolled by NATO, UK officials say.

Jets of matter have been discovered around a very low mass 'failed star', mimicking a process seen in young stars. This suggests that these 'brown dwarfs' form in a similar manner to normal stars but also that outflows are driven out by objects as massive as hundreds of millions of solar masses down to Jupiter-sized objects.