
Endangering Species: Listing Can Make Animals Valuable Black Market Commodities [Slide Show]
By certifying species as endangered, government programs can backfire
By certifying species as endangered, government programs can backfire
The growing problem of spammers who use the names of real Web writers to create bogus blogs
Some are already on their way and some are still in the works, but here is what we may see from unmanned exploration of space in the coming years
NASA is planning to send an orbiter to Europa as part of an international fleet of probes slated to explore Jupiter's environs that may even include a landing on the intriguing moon
A tagalong to the Russian sample-return mission makes some researchers uncomfortable
The twin Voyagers set the pace for planetary exploration. And although the technology on new probes far surpasses theirs, no other spacecraft has yet explored more of the solar system and its interstellar environs...
Once-promising biotechs pursuing a safe solution that could mimic blood's oxygen-carrying characteristics and treat wounded soldiers and trauma patients are falling by the wayside
The remote eastern Himalayas--home to tiny deer and big vipers--have offered enterprising researchers a wealth of new species to document and describe
Ozone reacts with compounds in skin oils, resulting in some potentially irritating chemicals
The unknown origins behind language, handedness, flu seasons, superconductivity, antimatter, proton spin, cosmic rays and sex
Galoshes seem to have come from a little fire, Amazonian Indians' boredom and Charles Goodyear's luck
Much ado about nothing: First a placeholder and then a full-fledged number, zero had many inventors
Although the dairy industry wants a free pass for carbon emissions, some scientists are looking for ways to help it cope with a warming climate
Fido's cousins may be Eurasian wolves, but new findings complicate the details of domestication
Imbibing the liquid of fermented fruit may have had its start in medicinal traditions
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