Scientists say oil and gas seeps surrounding BP's Deepwater Horizon well appear to be mostly natural and to pre-date the 2010 spill.
Outer space is roughly analogous to the high seas: free for all to use for peaceful transit. We must condemn the initiation of hostilities in outer space rather than supporting unrestrained freedom of action.
Prof. Alan Strahler's current work involves a ground-based LiDAR instrument called ECHIDNA, after the spiky Australian egg-laying mammal.
A new paper estimates that "fracking" produces relatively few greenhouse gas emissions, and that the emissions due to extracting the gas are small in comparison to the emissions from burning it.
Eric Cantor, majority leader of the House of Representatives, rather glibly said this week that no aid should go to Joplin, Missouri unless budget cu...
Republicans are far more skeptical of "global warming" than of "climate change," a study led by a University of Michigan psychologist found. Among Democrats, on the other hand, about 85 percent do.
Essentially anyone in the vicinity of an OpenBTS tower with a cellphone can access and share vital information.
While Obama may indeed be right about America being in serious danger of falling behind on a worldwide scale, this Sputnik moment simply doesn't have a Sputnik. There is no one overarching threat.
By Gail Jacobs If planets are a dime a dozen, moons are less than a penny each. There are at least 139 moons just within our own solar system. Most o...
It is not a good policy to "internationalize" bi-lateral border disputes or "militarize" the vicinities of other nation's territorial waters.
There is an irony in that "green technologies" for the West might rely on environmentally unfriendly mining in China.
Today, we sit down with architectural historian and archaeologist Jes Alexander, who spearheaded the research team that discovered what could be a piece of real-life Atlantis.
While the book "Hubble: A Journey Through Space and Time" represents a sampling of the telescopes' 20-year contributions, many of Hubble's greatest discoveries are yet to come.
Here is a list of actions, policy shifts, and issues that are essential to giving Iranians more access to information and helping them fight against the Tehran's strong censorship.