A call for a global protest to demand governmental action in the face of global warming. The Alliance for the Planet (l'alliance pour la planète), a group of environmental associations, is calling on all citizens to create five minutes of "electrical rest" for the planet.
The video of Saddam Hussein's execution on the New York Times web site was sponsored by the Fox Searchlight film, "The Last King of Scotland."
An essay by Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security, defending his reduction in funds to secure New York City. He blames Congress for reducing the total amount his department was able to give away this time around.
The largest ever-produced map of the universe confirms that the universe is full of dark energy. This utterly inexplicable force is one of nature's great unsolved mysteries.
Nevaeh, which is Heaven spelled backward, is now a more popular name for baby girls than Sara and Vanessa.
A controversial new study detailed in the May 5 issue of the journal Science could explain one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. In the proposed "Cyclic Universe" new matter and energy are created every trillion years.
A 23-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested on Friday after allegedly licking the feet and legs of about 70 women on the subway.
A Russian telecommunications satellite in geostationary orbit failed following a "sudden external impact" of undetermined origin. The satellite is being moved into a graveyard orbit before on-board temperatures render it uncontrollable.
Newly discovered group of comets orbiting among the rocky asteroids in the main asteroid belt may be the origin of Earth's oceans.
For no apparent reason, the comet's nucleus split into at least three "mini-comets" flying single file through space.
"We're developing a tricorder," Robert Downs said, referring to the instrument used on the "Star Trek" television show that could be waved over materials to identify their chemical composition.
MIT researchers have developed a tiny light detector that may allow for super-fast broadband communications over interplanetary distances.
"Home available for short-term stay. Landscape is an airless but magnificent desolation. Closest grocery store is a quarter million miles away."
NASA press conference announces observations revealing what the universe was like in the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
NASA halted shuttle launch preparations at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday so workers could contemplate a rash of recent accidents, including one that the center director said could have been disastrous.
"Our current focus is to drive like hell … and try to get [Spirit] to safe winter havens before the power situation gets really bad," said Steve Squyres, lead Mars Rover Exploration scientist.
Flight Through Mariner Valley takes viewers on a journey through this vast canyon system on an imaginary scout ship that dives low over landslides and races through winding canyons.
Scientists looking at three rare and radiant pulsating stars have found they each are surrounded by a fairly bright layer of matter, a "cocoon," that has never before been detected around stars of this kind.
It was billed as an official NASA Headquarters briefing to space scientists—but turned into a powder-keg of emotion.
Tomorrow, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will reach Mars.
Images taken by aircraft, intelligence-gathering satellites and commercial remote-sensing spacecraft are fueling an intensive study of the intriguing oddity.
Though the consensus is that bubble fusion is theoretically possible, without a lusty rebuttal these latest blows could sound the death knell.
Since 1932, scientists have been picking up yellow-green glass in a 60-by-100-kilometer (35-by-60-mile) area of the desert of southern Egypt near the Libyan border.
A bottle believed to contain a toyol – a mythical supernatural creature – has been returned to the sea
The blog, called View from the Sidewalk, has become a way for Brown to vent, rant and reflect on his problems. He reveals the day-to-day travails, his guilt and anger about the situation, and his depression.
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