For much of the past 10
years, beekeepers,
primarily in the United
States and Europe, have
been reporting annual
hive losses of 30 percent
or higher, substantially
more than is considered
normal or sustainable.
But this winter, many
U.S. beekeepers e...
SAN MATEO, Calif.
â The
organization whose
big-money prizes helped
get the private
spaceflight industry off
the ground isn't done
issuing high-profile
challenges to spur
exploration of the final
frontier.
Voters in Portland, Ore.,
will decide tomorrow (May
21) whether the city will
begin fluoridating its
water. For weeks,
residents have been
contentiously debating
water fluoridation, the
addition of fluoride to
public water supplies for
the purpose of ...
Tornado season has been
relatively quiet this
year. There were only 72
tornadoes nationwide in
April, 70 percent below
the 10 year average,
according to the Weather
Channel. But within in
the last week, tornado
outbreaks have been
erupting from North...
SAN MATEO, Calif.
â Mr.
Spock may think space is
the final frontier, but
Earth's deep oceans are
just as mysterious and
unknown. Now, one
scientist says thousands
of people could explore
the oceans using cheap,
remotely controlled ro...
Florida has a long list
of problematic invasive
species, from the vervet
monkey to the lionfish,
but the Burmese python
might be the state's
public enemy No. 1
â so
much so that residents
will hop out of their
cars at night to catch...
LONDON
â The
first British astronaut
ever to visit the
International Space
Station will launch in
2015 for a six-month
mission that may involve
spacewalks, wrangling
visiting robotic
spacecraft and space
experiments, the UK Space
Ag...