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John Seidensticker on saving wild tigers
Only about 3,200 tigers remain in the wild. John Seidensticker predict that, without international intervention, wild tigers will go extinct by the year 2022.
December 27, 2010
Life discovered deeper underground than ever before
A research team (Stephen Giovannoni) has discovered life deeper in the Earth's crust than ever before, a mile below the ocean floor in the North Atlantic.
December 27, 2010
Oldest object known yet in the universe
The oldest object in the universe discovered thus far is a very small galaxy created over 13 billion years ago.
December 27, 2010
Snowpocalypse pounds U.S. east coast December 2010
Another snowpocalypse! A blizzard pounded the U.S. east coast over the 2010 Christmas weekend, grounding hundreds of flights in the U.S. Northeast.
December 26, 2010
Does holiday muzak mess with your mind?
U.K. sound expert has considered whether background instrumentals played like holiday muzak in department stores has a psychological effect on us. Apparently ... it does.
December 23, 2010
Image of blood vessel in brain looks like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Scientists thought they saw an eye, tail and antlers in an image of a blood vessel in the brain. They enhanced the image to bring out the red nose ...
December 23, 2010
Top 10 climate events for 2010
Who knew, decades ago when scientists first began talking about global warming, that extreme weather events would be such a big part of the picture?
December 23, 2010
Scientists engineer a mouse that sings like a bird
Japanese researchers with the "Evolved Mouse Project" have used a genetically engineered "evolution" to create a mouse that sing like birds.
December 22, 2010
English schoolkids publish study on bees
In what could be a first, a group of schoolkids has had its scientific study of bees published in the December 22 edition of a science journal, Biology Letters.
December 22, 2010
Saturn’s moons Dione and Enceladus in stunning images
The Cassini spacecraft finished its four-year mission to explore Saturn and its rings and moons in June 2008. But it is still sending back images of Saturn's moons.
December 21, 2010
