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Their first wave of construction work successfully completed, the 10 astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery and the international space station eagerly awaited their entrance Saturday into the latest addition to the orbiting complex. Complete Story...
Only TWO human species??NMU students seek signs of ancient humans along Superior shoreYou might not believe but this is a NASA website Defect Suspected in Fabric of Space-Time Our World Is Finite: The Implications of Resource Limitations Mystery Comet Explodes Into BrightnessJohn Stossel: "Global warming? Give me a break!"
Almost a third of all apes, monkeys and other primates are in danger of extinction because of rampant habitat destruction, the commercial sale of their meat and the trade in illegal wildlife, a report released Friday said.
Captured by Confederate sailors in a bloody midnight sneak attack in 1864, the gunboat Water Witch became one of the few Civil War ships to sail under the flags of both the Confederate and Union navies. Archaeologists say they found strong evidence Thursday they've located the Water Witch's wreckage buried under more than 10 feet of mud in the Vernon River south of Savannah.
Grizzly bears in the region in and around Yellowstone National Park have suffered unusually high mortality rates so far this year, likely because of a dearth of natural food sources, a researcher said.
A large stretch of the rugged, pristine northern shore of Lake Superior will become the world's largest freshwater marine protected area, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday.
Latin America and other poor regions of the world will bear the brunt of climate change, a top official from the organization that shared this year's Nobel Peace Prize said Thursday.
The image of Neanderthals may be in need of a makeover: scientists say at least some of these extinct hominids could have had fair skin and red hair.
The international community must respond more quickly to climate change, species extinction, dwindling supplies of fresh water and other threats to the planet, the U.N. Environment Program warned Thursday.
Astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery and the international space station joined forces Thursday, linking their ships and kicking off the biggest construction job ever attempted by a single team in orbit.
A Coast Guard reconnaissance team is heading to the far north this week to scope out a new frontier that the warming Arctic climate is opening to ship traffic.
NASA is flying an unmanned aircraft outfitted with high-tech imaging equipment to help firefighters battling wildfires raging across Southern California.
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names has chosen to name an island off the western edge of the Antarctic peninsula after a husband-and-wife team of University of Alabama at Birmingham scientists who spent 30 years working in the cold waters off the continent.
James Watson, the Nobel laureate who sparked an international furor last week with comments about intelligence levels among blacks, has retired from his post at a prestigious research institution.
Researchers at New Mexico's two largest universities are painting a grim picture of New Mexico's economic and agricultural future with predictions that climate change will mean less water in the Rio Grande watershed.
A person's optimism in the future seems to be controlled by a small front part of the mid-brain, according to a study that used brain imaging.
Embarking on an ambitious 10-year moon exploration program, China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday — a leap forward in the Asian space race that gave a boost to national pride, and the promise of scientific and military payoffs.
Discovery's astronauts used lasers and digital cameras Wednesday to examine the shuttle's wings for any signs of launch damage as they gained on the international space station with every circling of Earth.
Whenever the world's tropical seas warm several degrees, Earth has experienced mass extinctions over millions of years, according to a first-of-its-kind statistical study of fossil records.
IT is one of the strangest things to illuminate the night sky and may be about to make history. Comet Holmes - a ball of frozen matter that orbits the sun every seven years - has intensified in brightness one million times since Wednesday night.
Manager says redesigned suborbital plane could be ready as early as 2010 Rocketplane Global super-sized its suborbital spaceship on Friday, unveiling an upgraded design that boosts the craft's capacity to five passengers plus a pilot.
Discovery shuttle astronauts begin the difficult job of attaching an Italian-made module to the International Space Station. The project is expected to take ten days.
Almost a third of all apes, monkeys and other primates are in danger of extinction because of rampant habitat destruction, the commercial sale of their meat and the trade in illegal wildlife, a report released Friday said.
We compiled a comprehensive database of large wildfires in western United States forests since 1970 and compared it with hydroclimatic and land-surface data.
Climate change models, no matter how powerful, can never give a precise prediction of how greenhouse gases will warm the Earth, according to a new study. The result will provide ammunition to those who argue not enough is known about global warming to warrant taking action.
While the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous easily gets the most press, it was not the only such event in geologic history -- and far from the most severe. A study by the University of York looked at several of the other extinction events.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the changes were part of a normal review process and not aimed at minimizing the impact of global warming.
This Blogger is raising awareness of the plight of the Wood Stork which is being threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife Services attempt to remove it from the endangered species list, despite that its numbers are down this year due to severe drought conditions.
An accidental discovery could pave the way to one day coaxing stem cells to develop into human eyes in the lab.
A very good article by Alan Boyle on the nascent commercial space industry (what is called the alt.space industry as opposed to the "traditional" commercial satellite market). This i about the X-Prize cup that is going on this week out in New Mexico as well.
Environmental and public health experts overwhelmingly denounced editing by the White House of a federal health agency head's testimony to Congress Tuesday. Significant deletions were made from the testimony, concerning global warming and the potential impact on human health.
One of Australia's greatest ever scientists, Professor Frank Fenner, is finally retiring in full from science, just in time to celebrate his 93rd birthday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he would suspend the planting of genetically modified (GMO) pest-resistant crops until the results of an appraisal of the issue later this year or early in 2008... "I don't want to be in contradiction with EU laws, but I have to …
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