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A Belgian man who was thought to be in a coma for 23 years shared these feelings with a reporter today: "It was especially frustrating when my family needed me. I could not share in their sorrow." Complete Story...
The Clearest View Yet Of A 1,000 Year Old ExplosionSplitting Time from Space—New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein's SpacetimeDrinking Red Wine May Prevent Cavities Obama puts scientists, engineers in spotlightThe story the media doesn't want you to see about the Global Warming hoax.Ripples in space divide classical and quantum worldsHelp a Needy Astronomer's Play the "Cosmic Slot Machine"
The United States should be ready to spell out its long-term vision for reducing carbon emissions over the next two decades, not just until 2020, the European Union said Tuesday.
Dramatic pictures sent back over the weekend from an icy moon of Saturn show water erupting into space from fissures on the surface.
Hey kids, grab those beakers and Petri dishes, the White House is going to hold a science fair.
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate summit in Denmark.
Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
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.
Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.
Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.
The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia.
Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station early Wednesday and headed home with one astronaut eager to hold his newborn daughter for the first time and another who's been away from her young son since the summer.
Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday.
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.
Paper-thin batteries made from algaeScientists worldwide are striving to develop thin, flexible, lightweight, inexpensive, environmentally friendly batteries made entirely from nonmetal parts.
'Green' grass in biofuel research Scientists are working with farmers and fuel companies to produce a greener form of biofuel. The project is using sugar-rich varieties of perennial ryegrass as a raw material for producing bio-ethanol.
Rising sea levels: A tale of two citiesWhen people talk about the impact of rising sea levels, they often think of small island states that risk being submerged if global warming continues unchecked.
The Secrets Within Cosmic Dust - the particles returned from comet Wild-2At the threshold of a sterile lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, I pull on a white clean-room suit, a surgical cap and mask, booties and latex gloves.
Salmon debate: Learning the lessons of the Pahsimeroi RiverCentral Idaho's Pahsimeroi River used to be the prime example of how the federal government was promising more than it could deliver on improving habitat to help Idaho's endangered chinook salmon.
Hacked archive provides fodder for climate scepticsClimate scientists are reeling this week from the discovery that someone has hacked into the email archive of one of their most prestigious research centres, the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, UK, custodian of the most respected global temperature r …
Jupiter - friend or foe? III: the Oort cloud cometsIt has long been assumed that the planet Jupiter acts as a giant shield, significantly lowering the impact rate of small bodies on the Earth.
Violent World of Raptors ExploredDespite the ubiquity of raptors in terrestrial ecosystems, many aspects of their predatory behaviour remain poorly understood. Surprisingly little is known about the morphology of raptor talons and how they are employed during feeding behaviour.
Monster Waves on the Sun are Real"Now we know," says Joe Gurman of the Solar Physics Lab at the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Solar tsunamis are real."
Forget Global Warming - - Ominous Signs are Already Here the Planet is Experiencing Dangerous Climate ChangeAs I write, the temperature outside is almost 40°C, and daily highs have exceeded 35°C for eight days straight. The old record for November was four days.
Storm clouds gather over leaked climate e-mailsAn article from nature magazine on the subject of the leaked emails and the fallout thereof.
China to send two pandas to AustraliaChina will send two giant pandas to an Australian zoo this Friday as part of a joint research program.
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