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Lost treasures: Peking Man's bonesRussian scientists reach the Lost World after 30 years of workWhy Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past)Woolly mammoth caught on video? It looks fishyHow'd that meteorite get here? 30,000 years later, we knowRare pygmy Nile crocodiles turn up in new areas3-D images show earthquakes before and after activity
Two weeks after attending the State of the Union address, formerly homeless teen Samantha Garvey was back in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, where she displayed her scientific acumen — and got a shout-out from the president.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday praised the Russian scientists who have reached a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica hidden under more than two miles (3.2 kilometers) of ice, a pristine body of water that may hold life from the distant past.
For a president who promotes technology at every opportunity, Barack Obama often strikes an awed, self-effacing pose in the presence of technicians, scientists and high tech machinery.
NASA astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years, has died. She was 55.
Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He was 73.
The man who warned his employer of the equipment quirk that led to the deadly explosion of the space shuttle Challenger has died. Roger Boisjoly was 73.
President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he said would be crucial to the nation's long-term success.
Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.
NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.
North America's 2080 Water ForecastClimate models predict that as global temperatures rise over the next seven decades, subtropical regions like the American Southwest will get drier, while more northern areas, including much of Canada, will get wetter.
Code-breaking: Why yuor barin can raed tihsNo one knows why we're so good at reading garbled nonsense, but we have suspicions...
This chimp will kick your ass at memory games — but how the hell does he do it?This is Ayumu, he's an 11-year-old chimpanzee who lives and trains at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute. In his time there, Ayumu has come to excel at an incredibly difficult — albeit very straightforward — memorization game.
Coloring of zebras earns its stripes by repelling nasty fliesResearch shows black and white lines may have evolved because of bloodsucking insects
Russia says drillers reach long-buried Antarctic lake - CNN.com(CNN) -- Russian scientists briefly pierced the two-mile-thick veil over a freshwater lake hidden beneath Antarctica's ice sheet for millions of years, polar researchers announced Wednesday. Scientists hope samples of Lake Vostok, a body the size of Lake Ontario, will yield sign …
Razor-sharp scales help sharks speed through the waterSkin generates tiny whirlpools that pull the beasts along, researchers find
Enceladus Backlit by Saturn (1023×1024)Enceladus [en-SELL-ah-dus] is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. It is quite similar in size to Mimas, but has a smoother, brighter surface. Enceladus reflects almost 100 percent of the sunlight that strikes it.
The Miraculous NASA Breakthrough That Could Save Millions of Lives (UPDATED)There are no hospitals in space. The closest E.R. is back on Earth, and astronauts can't exactly jump in a cab to get there.
First photos of tiger snapped in vital India habitat corridorConservationist team runs into Bengal in area critical to the endangered animal
A forest grows in Antarctica - an extensive forest may have flourished about 3 million years ago<From 1970 to 1986>, scientists came to believe that the stark and frigid <antarctic> landscape we see today has existed for a very long time; the climatic message embedded in sea sediments is that once an ice sheet enveloped East Antarctica 15 million years a …
Climate Timeline Tool: Climate Science for 100,000 YearsDue to variations in the Earth's orbital process, the planet has experienced a series of Ice Ages over the past 2.6 million years.
DNA, Ancestry and Human MigrationScience has discovered our genetic Adam and Eve. These individuals survived profound climate disasters. The most recent sever climate change is the Wurm Ice Age from 500 to 3,500 generations ago.
We Are All Mutants: Measurement Of Mutation Rate In Humans By Direct SequencingHuman genetic drift is 1 mutation in each 30 million nucleotides each generation. We have about 3,000 million nucleotides, so each generation carries about 100 new mutations forward for each living individual.
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