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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. Complete Story...
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 moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
Suddenly, the moon looks exciting again. It has lots of water, scientists said Friday — a thrilling discovery that sent a ripple of hope for a future astronaut outpost in a place that has always seemed barren and inhospitable.
Record high temperatures are occurring more than twice as often as record lows.
For NASA's stuck Mars rover, the Spirit may be willing, but the wheels could prove too weak. The space agency on Thursday outlined a rescue plan to try to free the rover Spirit, which has been bogged in a sand trap on the red planet for half a year. The risky operation is expected to last several months.
Chimps, our nearest relative, don't talk. We do. Now scientists have pinpointed a mutation in a gene that might help explain the difference. The mutation seems to have helped humans develop speech and language. It's probably not the only gene involved, but researchers found the gene looks and acts differently in chimps and humans, according to a study published online Wednesday by the journal Nature.
Shares of Sanmina-SCI Corp. rose in Thursday, after the electronics services company said demand was increasing and issued an upbeat outlook.
An international group of scientists has decoded the DNA of the domestic pig, research that may one day prove useful in finding new treatments for both pigs and people, and perhaps aid in efforts for a new swine flu vaccine for pigs.
Two of three parachutes malfunctioned in the test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week, causing major damage to the booster, NASA said Friday.
The Associated Press sought independent statistical analyses of global temperatures to determine if there is a true cooling of Earth's climate.
Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book. Only one problem: It's not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several independent statisticians for The Associated Press.
When Kathy Perusse had weight-loss surgery and shed 120 pounds, she may have done more than make her own life easier.
Global warming is messing with the planet's thermostat.
NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel told the White House Thursday.
Remember Ida, the fossil discovery announced last May with its own book and TV documentary? A publicity blitz called it "the link" that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. Experts protested that Ida wasn't even a close relative. And now a new analysis supports their reaction.
Fossil bones housed at a Los Angeles museum belong to the smallest dinosaur discovered in North America, scientists said Tuesday.
NASA's newest rocket is on the verge of blasting off on a test flight, but minor problems are causing last-minute delays.
European astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. Scientists using the European Southern Observatory telescope didn't find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement increased the number of planets discovered outside the solar system to more than 400.
NASA's much-hyped mission to hurl a spacecraft into the moon turned out some worthwhile data after all, scientists said.
The Midwest and Northern United States are likely to get a warmer winter, while the Southeast can expect just the opposite: cooler and wetter conditions.
NASA's moon probe has separated into two pieces as planned, a major milestone toward a Friday morning double-barreled crash into the lunar surface.
NASA's great lunar fireworks finale fizzled. After gearing up for the space agency's much-hyped mission to hurl two spacecraft into the moon, the public turned away from the sky Friday anything but dazzled. Photos and video of the impact showed little more than a fuzzy white flash.
Joe Wright's "The Soloist" Exploits The Skid Row CommunityWhat I uncovered on Skid Row is a malaise more perverse than Mr. Wright's orgiastic assault on the poor and the mentally ill.
The CIA's Open SecretsIn a quiet, fluorescently lit room in the National Archives' auxiliary campus in suburban College Park, Maryland, 10 miles outside of Washington, are four computer terminals, each providing instant access to the more than 10 million pages of documents the CIA has declassified sin …
Climate change effects seen in Antarctic windsWASHINGTON – Changing wind patterns linked to global warming are altering the food chain in Antarctica and may lead to further increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Nasa engineers propose new rocket systemNasa administrators are pushing the Ares rocket program as a replacement, but this won't be ready until 2014 at the earliest.
Calif. shifts 2,000 National Guardsmen to firesWith crews exhausted by hundreds of wildfires and the season only beginning, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday ordered up 2,000 more National Guard troops to prepare for fire duty.
Stanford Olympians Headed to BeijingStanford University's alumni magazine profiles several of the athletes who will be competing in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. A sidebar in the print version of the magazine notes that Stanford athletes have won a total of 193 medals at the Olympics since 1908.
McCain's broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship - Los Angeles TimesThe nature and timing of his divorce from Carol Shepp alienated key friends -- and his version doesn't always match that in court documents.
Supply side economics. Ronald Reagan--we need you to come back. When prices are high, it means that there is limited supply. The solution is to increase supply of the item. Supply side economics.
Ubisoft Bids on Lara Croft?SCi Entertainment, owner of the Lara Croft Tomb Raider computer game franchise, admitted yesterday that for the second time in two years it had received a bid approach, believed to be from its French rival Ubisoft.
Research Suggests New Treatment for Spinal Cord Injuriesa new treatment of spinal cord injuries The study, to be published in the April edition of Journal of Neurochemistry, demonstrates that by using atorvastatin as neuroprotective factor after injury have the potential to lead to improved functional recovery and only a few residual …
Electronic Nerve Stimulator Enables WalkingFor those of us at the AAAS meeting, nothing was more impressive than the demonstration given by Jennifer French. She's not a scientist. She's a young woman sitting in a wheelchair, paralyzed from a snowboarding accident.
AOL and Super Computer International, Inc., (SCI) today announced the availability of PlayLinc, a next-generation online game browsing and instant messaging platform that gives gamers more control over their multiplayer gaming interactions.
How to use fifty 30" Apple cinema displaysTileViewer is a distributed visualization framework I developed as a part of my dissertation. It works on Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux (although for Linux, a couple of features are not available yet). Also different platforms can work together at the same time.
Real time satellite tracking (with Google Maps)Amateur astronomers will enjoy this cool mashup combining the coordinates of several satellites with the power of the Google Maps to show real-time locations as each of them oribts the Earth.
Don't flush it - breathe itThis week's space shuttle mission will bring a breath of fresh air to the International Space Station with the delivery and installation of a new device from NASA that can turn astronaut pee into oxygen.
Top Ten Accidental DiscoveriesHere is a list of the top 10 most useful inventions which were discovered accidentally! Penicillin X- Rays Vulcanized Rubber Cellophane Safety Glass Scotchgard Post-it Notes Superglue Velcro The Popsicle
Dilitium Crystals closer to becoming Science Fact, Not Fiction.It won't power the starship Enterprise, but an experimental "dilithium crystal" pyroelectric technology is said to enable compact nuclear fusion.
SCi Breaks Off Acquisition TalksUK publisher SCi made a brief statement that it "does not believe that it is in the company's or the shareholders' interests to prolong talks any further." This means that it has called off negotiations with whoever was in the running up until last week to take over SCi, who the
Lego Star Wars lifts SCi earningsEidos owner exceeds six-month sales target by $26.8 million; stock rises, guidance remains unchanged, as takeover rumors persist.
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