Big Bang still possible to deduce in the future

We could still find evidence of the Big Bang and an expanding universe a trillion years from now, even with no galaxies visible in the night sky.

How bacterial dirigibles might someday target disease

Tiny bacterial factories dubbed “bacterial dirigibles” might someday deliver disease-fighting chemicals straight to a targeted body part - like your intestine.

California condors are making a comeback

California condors were all but extinct a few decades ago. Their numbers are up, and they are now at the center of the controversy over lead hunting ammunition.

Jupiter climbs upward in eastern dawn during May 2011

You're not likely to see much of the planet Jupiter in early May 2011. However, the giant planet quickly climbs away the glow of dawn throughout the month. When will you first spot Jupiter, the sky's second planet, in the east before sunrise?

Video of The Elements, sung by Tom Lehrer

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium ...

Warped space-time visualized by physicists

Stretching and twisting lines can visually portray the warping of space-time and solve a mystery surrounding merged black holes.

Algae discovered inside salamander embryos

Ryan Kerney and a team of biologists found green algae living inside salamander embryo cells, the first cellular-level symbiosis ever seen in a vertebrate.

Honoring Yuri Gagarin on 50th anniversary of human space flight

The voyage of Yuri Gagarin lasted 108 minutes, 89 minutes of which were in space. He orbited the Earth once in his Vostok 1 capsule.

To celebrate Yuri, first space-Earth duet

NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman and Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson perform the first space-Earth duet celebrating Yuri.

Fukushima severity rating same level as Chernobyl

The Fukushima situation has not changed, but the rating on the severity scale has been raised from 5 to 7, highest level on an international scale.