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Climate Scientist, Heated Up Over Satirical Video, Threatens Lawsuit
The Penn State climate professor who has silently endured investigations, hostile questioning, legislative probes and attacks by colleagues has finally spoken out. He says he'll sue the makers of a satirical video that's a hit on You Tube. Their r...
Crews may set fire to burn off leaked Gulf oil
This time, it's not a hurricane that threatens to wreck their livelihoods -- it's a blob of black ooze slowly making its way toward the Gulf Coast. Hotel owners, fishermen and restaurateurs are keeping anxious watch as an oil slick spreads from a ...
'Noah's Ark' found in Turkey
The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish mountain, it has been claimed.
Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking
THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to...
Star Wars 2010? U.S. military launch space plane on maiden voyage... but its mission is top secret
A top secret space plane developed by the US military has blasted off from Cape Canaveral on its maiden voyage. Billed as a small shuttle, the unmanned X-37B heralds the next generation of space exploration. It will be the first craft to carry out...
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A huge meteor lit up the skies over several Midwestern U.S. states on Wednesday night, the National Weather Service reported.
Controversial procedure enables kids to have DNA from three people to bypass genetic disorders
UK scienctists have created embryos containing DNA from a man and two women in a controversial experiment aimed at bypassing genetic disorders in families and eradicating fatal genetic diseases.
A new portable device, invented by researchers at California's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), is capable of performing an HIV test in less than 10 minutes.
Swiss stockbroker, Mexican chef jailed in New Zealand for hunting, possessing protected lizards
A Swiss and a Mexican men were sentenced to 18 weeks in a New Zealand prison on Monday for hunting and possessing protected native lizards.
A U.S. company, owned by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Toshiba are planning to jointly develop a small nuclear reactor, Toshiba said Tuesday.
Game show contestants turn torturers in a new psychological experiment for French television, which aims to find out whether television could push people to outrageous lengths.
British scientists from University College London revealed they could differentiate brain activity linked to different memories and thereby identify thought patterns by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
The world's first male elephant twins were born in the northeastern Thai province of Surin on Saturday.
Bacteria living in the human intestine may help cause obesity and a range of health-threatening symptoms that go along with it, researchers reported on Thursday.
According to a new study, people's subjective age has implications for the process of aging, so the saying "You're only as old as you feel" turns out to be true - in fact.
New gene test may help choose your diet
According to a new study, genetic testing may help dieters the ideal type of diet, thus maximizing weight loss, Interleukin Genetics Inc. reported on Wednesday.
A British grandfather had been using an odd-looking stone in his rock garden as an ornament for nine years, when came the revelation that it was, in fact, a 135-million-year-old dinosaur fossil.
According to a new study, people who identified as liberal and atheist can boast higher IQs and the same applies to sexual exclusivity in men.
According to a research conducted by Australian scientists, some of the secrets of attraction are hidden in immune system genes, which we inherit from our parents. The more varied they are, the more boyfriends a woman will likely to have.
US researchers unveils car that makes money
US researchers has introduced a car that earns money for its driver. The vehicle was shown Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego, California.