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Scientists collect climate change data from Irene flooding
Scientists were in the thick of the storm collecting data to help them better understand the role of big storms in climate change.
August 30, 2011
Aleksei Aksimentiev makes medicine personal with supercomputers
Using the world's fastest computers to scrutinize DNA, Aleksei Aksimentiev wants to enable future doctors to tailor medical procedures to your genetic makeup.
August 30, 2011
Creating a Milky Way on a supercomputer
An experiment creating the first simulation of a galaxy like the Milky Way supports the cosmological model of a cold dark matter universe.
August 30, 2011
Hurricane Irene and its history
Irene came into being on August 15, 2011 as a tropical wave off the coast of Africa and slowly moved to the west ...
August 30, 2011
Domestication robbed stallions of genetic variation
Modern stallions almost certainly lost the genetic diversity their ancient ancestors once had after domestication, a new study revealed.
August 29, 2011
Striking image of The Eyes of the cosmic Virgin
ESO's Very Large Telescope has taken a striking image of a beautiful yet peculiar pair of galaxies nicknamed the Eyes.
August 29, 2011
Video games can help kids learn
Video games let people step into other shoes, make decisions, explore consequences, said Alan Gershenfeld of E-Line Media - all skills we need for the 21st century.
August 29, 2011
Where is Irene now? Track the tropical storm
UPDATE: Sunday, August 28, 5:40 p.m. EDT (21:40 UTC). Tropical Storm Irene has been gradually weakening and is beginning to lose tropical characteristics.
August 28, 2011
Forever young: Earth’s crust recycles faster than we thought
Scientists from Max Planck Institute for Chemistry say Earth's crust may be recycled in only half a billion years, based on data from volcano Mauna Loa.
August 28, 2011
SETI searches on
The search for signals from intelligent beings beyond Earth will continue when the SETI Institute reboots its array of 42 antennas north of San Francisco.
August 28, 2011
