Germany, Austria and Switzerland are expected to withdraw financial support for Turkey's controversial Ilisu Dam. The two billion euro ($2.8 billion) dam threatened to flood Kurdish settlements and ancient archaeological sites, while starving Iraq and its endangered marshes of water...
Conflicts on environments like Second Life can open up new legal questions
Letter from 20 experts calls bill a "powerful advance"
Last Friday, a second alleged Indian artifact thief turned up dead in an apparent suicide. Steven L. Shrader, 56, appeared to have shot himself twice in the chest behind an elementary school in Shabbona, Ill., where he had gone to visit his mother...
While it's possible to search the Web for images, there's still no way of searching the images themselves. Google is hoping to change this through a research project that can match digital photos of certain famous landmarks with text descriptions of those landmarks (including their namesname and where they're located) without the need for a conventional search engine...
Cellulose-loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover
In a report in the American Journal of Public Health performed in New York City, subways were the loudest mass transit option, with potentially hearing-damaging noise levels. Steve Mirsky reports...
The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has prompted a reassessment of how financial markets work and how people make decisions about money
A new government study surveyed top-tier research universities to see how women were faring in the largely male-dominated fields of math and science
Particulates drop sharply, nitrogen oxides next to improve
Nuclear power plants may not emit greenhouse gases, but they sure could suck in the tax dollars.
An analysis by economist Mark Cooper at the Vermont Law School claims that adding 100 new reactors to the U.S...
A lone male wolverine arrived in northern Colorado earlier this month, making him the first confirmed wolverine in the state since 1919.
In December, conservation biologists had outfitted the young wolverine, which is part of a reintroduction program farther north, with a tracking collar and watched him make the 500-mile (805-kilometer) journey from the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, crossing rugged landscapes and even busy Interstate-80, reports the Denver Post ...
Where do the billions in global health funds come from, and where do they go?
After failing to get the shuttle Endeavour off the launch pad this week, NASA had better luck with its mission to map the moon.
An Atlas V rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)...
About $31 billion in stimulus funds will go to science. Can watchdogs keep track of those funds?
A new study shows that diesel trucks and buses are spewing far less soot and smog into the air than they did just a few years ago
Editor's Note: Scuba instructor and underwater videographer Drew Wheeler is traveling on board the Algalita Marine Research Foundation's 50-foot (15.2
Prisoners have no constitutional right to DNA testing to challenge their convictions, the Supreme Court ruled today in a 5 to 4 vote.
The majority seemed concerned that requests for testing would overwhelm—and possibly undermine—the courts...
First, drop that name
Heavy use of fertilizers causes environmental problems in the U.S. and China, but a global team of scientists is prescribing more use of fertilizers for sub-Saharan Africa
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