Space & Tech News
Scientists are embarking on a research mission to discover the cause of hundreds of mild earthquakes that have occurred in a bizarre offshore location in recent weeks.
April 16, 2008
After causing early stages of lightning in clouds, scientists say they're much closer to being able to control actual lightning bolts with lasers.
April 16, 2008
Nearby residents had to flee as clouds of ash and debris shot out of Mount Egon on the island of Flores, government officials announced.
April 16, 2008
The island's Communist government has lifted a ban that prevented citizens from signing up for cellular service for more than a decade.
April 15, 2008
Crystals from the walls of a government-run nuclear waste facility contain 253-million-year-old cellulose and possibly ancient DNA, scientists announced.
April 15, 2008
A 9,550-year-old "Christmas tree" discovered on a Swedish mountain is the planet's most ancient known living plant, according to scientists.
April 14, 2008
The first statewide temblor forecast calculates a 99.7 percent chance that a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will strike the state in the next 30 years.
April 14, 2008
Researchers in Indonesia have discovered a rare frog species that has no lungs and instead gets all its oxygen through its skin.
April 14, 2008
If confirmed, the rocky world would be the first outside our solar system to be revealed by its effect on the orbit of a planetary neighbor.
April 11, 2008
The world's best preserved woolly mammoth—a 37,000-year-old female—gets CT-scanned in an unprecedented look at prehistoric biology.
April 11, 2008
A baby woolly mammoth frozen in Arctic Russia has provided the first detailed glimpse of the inner workings of a prehistoric mammal, scientists say.
April 11, 2008
See wind-swept Martian dunes, planes upturned by a tornado, Haitian food riots, Martin Luther King, Jr., remembered, and more.
April 11, 2008
The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Yi So-yeon and two Russian cosmonauts docked successfully Thursday with the International Space Station.
April 11, 2008
The tiny moon Phobos and its enormous impact crater star in several colorful new images taken by NASA's HiRISE camera.
April 10, 2008
A new technique that looks at chemical clues in seawater suggests that the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was a mere 2.5 to 3.7 miles (4 to 6 kilometers) across.
April 10, 2008
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