
Tourist arrives at space station

Tourist arrives at space station

Political Science: What Being Neat or Messy Says about Political Leanings
Do genes determine whether you'll be liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican?

Like a virgin: Shark spawns sans help

Millionaire space tourist -- and comedian Stephen Colbert's DNA -- set for liftoff

Medical Mystery: Only One Person Has Survived Rabies without Vaccine--But How?
ScientificAmerican.com talks with the first known survivor of rabies four years later

Montagnier, Barre-Sinoussi and zur Hausen Share Nobel
Physiology or medicine prize recognizes work on HIV and human papillomavirus (HPV) linked to cervical cancer--but leaves out Robert Gallo

What Is Benzene?
Apple says it's looking into whether one of its computers is giving off dangerous fumes--and smelling more like a new car than a Mac.

Biden and Palin talk energy and environment

More than 1.1 million people living with HIV in the U.S.

Probing images: Spacecraft to photograph Mercury

Warning: If antibiotics won't work, don't take them

Who will win the Nobel Prize? Cast your vote

Sarah Palin dishes on health and science: What does she really think?

Judge scraps lawsuit over Large Hadron Collider

Is testosterone to blame for the financial crisis?

Typhoons lashing Asia

Private rocket achieves orbit, paving the way for cheaper citizen space travel

Rocket man: How did a jet pack take Yves Rossy across the English Channel?

It's not easy being green: Kosher diets not always ecofriendly

Fly (them) to the moon, er, International Space Station; House okays trips through 2016

What are near-Earth objects?

Will an asteroid destroy Earth? Time for U.N. to keep tabs, say experts

Lance Armstrong back in the race; hires doc to prove no doping

China astronauts blast off, set for country's first spacewalk