
Star Wars: The Clone Wars hits theaters today

Star Wars: The Clone Wars hits theaters today

Bigfoot expert weighs in: "I'm extremely skeptical"

Big claim about bigfoot: bogus or bona fide?

The Latest Buzz: Aldrin Flies to the Moon Again
As a new film on the Apollo 11 mission is released, the second man on the moon tells ScientificAmerican.com what he thinks of NASA's current direction

They're back: The Perseid meteor shower peaks today

Cassini spacecraft searches for signs of life on Saturn's moon Enceladus

The Science of Star Wars: The Clone Wars--Q&A with Author Jeanne Cavelos
How close has science brought us to clone armies squaring off against blaster-wielding droids?

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: A Sneak Peek [Slide Show]
Get a first look at Anakin, Obi-Wan and a young Jedi trainee as they prepare to do battle with a new enemy in The Clone Wars

Top 10 Exoplanets: Weird Worlds in a Galaxy Not So Far Away [Slide Show]
A look at some of our extreme planetary neighbors right here in the Milky Way Galaxy

What will Tropical Storm Edouard do?

News Bytes of the Week: Large Hadron Collider gets its own rap song
Hot and spicy salmonella; Promising Alzheimer's drug; EPA studies nanotech safety; White Knight Two debuts; and more...

Presumed dinosaur flesh may just be bacterial sludge

Scientists Confirm Liquid Lake, Beach on Saturn's Moon Titan
Discovery makes Titan the only place besides Earth known to have a body of liquid on its surface

Forget the Dark Knight--the White Knight Two mothership has arrived

News Bytes of the Week--Cell phones: The new cigarettes?
Peppers fingered as salmonella culprits; Does soy lower sperm count?; Robot surveillance dragonfly takes flight; and more …

Scrolling “electronic ink” to hit newsstands this fall

Father of medical genetics, Victor McKusick, dies at 86

Mystery of Why Northern Lights "Dance" May Be Solved
NASA satellites find an explosion of magnetic energy reaching a third of the way to the moon intensifies the polar phenomenon

Soy vey! Does eating tofu lower sperm count?

Top 10 Water Wasters: From Washing Dishes to Watering the Desert
The many ways we squander water, from unintentional leaks to outright negligence

Watering a Thirsty World [Slide Show]
See how overstretched freshwater supplies will increasingly influence the way we live.

Fishing Bans May Save Corals from Killer Starfish
The more fish in the water, the fewer coral-munching starfish

News Bytes of the Week--Tomatoes get thumbs-up; but peppers still hot
NASA visitors boldly go; Italian cyclist booted for doping; Tattoos tattle on problem prisoners; Solar-powered racing cars; Grunting fish; and more...

The Wolf and the Moose: Natural Enemies That Need Each Other
Landmark project celebrates 50 years of tracking wolves and moose on a protected archipelago in Michigan's Lake Superior