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The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits. Complete Story...
Spencer on elitism in the IPCC climate machineCrumbling icesheets could add 5m to sea levelsBig success at Large Hadron ColliderNASA Invites You to do real Mars research at the same time you are playing a video gameAnthropogenic Global Warming Suffers Crushing Blow The CRU Hack: Much Ado About NothingWeather Channel Founder & 30,000 Other Scientists Want to Sue Al Gore for Global Warming Fraud Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 4:07 PM
The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted not to place tighter restrictions on embryonic stem cell research than those outlined under federal guidelines, which were expanded after President Barack Obama took office.
A space shuttle is no tinker toy. But is it the most complex machine ever built?
For the first time in seven months, the Mars rover moved.
In a Nov. 18 story about the vaccine industry, The Associated Press misspelled the surname of a government official quoted in the story. The director of the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority is Robin Robinson, not Robertson.
A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs — like wild boar tusks — roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported Thursday. While this fearsome creature hunted meat, not far away another newly found type of croc with a wide, flat snout like a pancake was fishing for food.
Conservationists searching for one of the world's most endangered crocodile species say they have found dozens of the reptiles lounging in plain sight — at a wildlife rescue center in Cambodia.
Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch a glimpse of what was advertised as an intense Leonid meteor shower, but the show fizzled rather than sizzled for many because of cloudy conditions.
The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.
Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time. Despite a global economic slump, worldwide carbon dioxide pollution jumped 2 percent last year, most of the increase coming from China, according to a study published online Tuesday.
The Sept. 19, 2008, failure of the Large Hadron Collider is costing 40 million Swiss francs ($40 million) to fix and it set back experiments for more than a year. But the world's largest atom smasher has lesser hiccups to contend with:
Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
The mother of recently separated conjoined Bangladeshi twins does not want custody of the daughters she gave up for adoption and wants them to have new lives in Australia, newspapers reported Saturday.
Environmentalists on Monday said an international deal to reduce catches of Atlantic bluefin tuna didn't go far enough to protect the species from extinction.
A team of Australian surgeons were working Monday on a delicate and complicated surgery to separate twin sisters who are joined at the top of the head.
The six astronauts on Atlantis' flight to the International Space Station include two former football players as well as several Gulf War veterans.
Sixty-five world leaders have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December, and several more have responded positively to invitations, Danish officials said Sunday.
CRU Refuses FOI Request, Whistle Blower Releases Sought After Data?A very interesting post by Steve MacIntyre about the possible motivations of the person/persons who released the emails and other data from CRU. It may be a whistleblower and not a random hacker. This is far more likely in my opinion.
Watching a cannibal galaxy dineA new technique using near-infrared images, obtained with ESO's 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT), allows astronomers to see through the opaque dust lanes of the giant cannibal galaxy Centaurus A, unveiling its "last meal" in unprecedented detail -- a smaller spiral galax …
Nuclear weapons: Predicting the unthinkableIf a nuclear weapon were detonated in a metropolitan area, how large would the affected area be? Where should first responders first go? According to physicist Fernando Grinstein, we have some initial understanding to address these questions, but fundamental issues remain unresol …
Astronaut's wait over as daughter born at homeAstronaut Randolph Bresnik is a new dad again, after launching into space and taking a spacewalk, all for the first time.
Large Hadron Collider progress delights researchersResearchers working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) say they are delighted with the progress made since the machine restarted on Friday. One official said the collider had done more in a few hours than it did in nine days of operations last year. The LHC is being used to sma …
After Space Shuttle, Who'll Have a Ticket to Ride?The simmering debate over the future direction of our nation's human space flight program hit even more air turbulence over the past couple weeks.
Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute - NYTimes.comLooks like the facts are getting in the way of their agenda and they can't have that ,
ACS Genes Discovery May Make Valuable Plants Survive In Difficult TerrainAccording to a recent GENETICS study, a family of genes (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase, or ACS genes) are responsible for production of ethylene and since this gas affects many aspects of plant development, it could lay the foundation for future genetic manipulation …
Stem cells: the first human trialPeople suffering from a form of incurable blindness could soon become the first patients in the world to benefit from a new and controversial transplant operation using stem cells derived from spare human embryos left over from IVF treatment.
Valley in Jordan inhabited and irrigated for 13,000 yearsArchaeologist Eva Kaptijn has given up digging in favour of gathering. With her colleagues, she has been applying an intensive field exploration technique: 15 metres apart, the researchers would walk forward for 50 metres.
Hunter's remains earliest knownInitially, Tam thought the site was early Neolithic but a talk with an expert in pre-history revealed the amazing fact that some of the tools that Tam and his team had discovered were about 16,000 years old (later Paleolithic).
New fossils reveal a world full of crocodilesNew fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday.
Triumph in Geneva! LHC beams up and running again Dimensional portal invasion back on trackThere were emotional scenes last night at the headquarters of underground international atom-smasher science alliance CERN, as joyful boffins celebrated the successful restarting of the Large Hadron Collider
Mike's Nature TrickWith the release of the hacked emails from CRU this week a lot of information about how certain papers were constructed has been released. It is damming in the extreme to those who have been pushing certain themes in climate science. This is one of them.
War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation?In the 24/7 Internet world, people make lots of claims. Science provides a guide for testing them
Global Warming: Emails Shed a New LightI know we could debate the morality of the theft that made this information available: some will say it was a completely unwarranted breach of privacy, whereas others will liken it to a 'black ops' mission essential for ending the conspiracy of global warming.
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