"For a brief and shining moment there was hope for change we can believe in, but the appointment of Monsanto's biotech champion from Iowa effectively kills the idea that consumer rights will be any different under Obama."

Biggest full moon for years enhanced by shooting stars

The afterlife has long been an article of religious faith. And now scientists are finally putting the idea to the test

A British museum curator has built a working replica of a 2,000-year-old Greek machine that has been called the world's first computer.

Up and down the East Coast, residents and naturalists alike have been scratching their heads this autumn over a simple question: Where are all the acorns???

Many people are reporting that their perception of the passage of Time is accelerating. There must be scientific and general public forum discussions, in order to arrive at a general consensus of the problem. Hurry, because time is of the essence on this!

Archaeologists have discovered what they say is the oldest surviving human brain in Britain, dating back at least 2000 years to the Iron Age.

Earth's molten core is generating a dynamo-generator effect, creating magnetic field lines of force that extend well outside Earth's atmosphere, and is known as our magnetosphere. This shields us from dangerously charged solar particles, and is fading!

The South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly is growing, moving, and is now showing signs of allowing intense solar radiation to come closer to the Earth's surface! Scientists are planning to launch SWARM to map these changes, that are now considered dangerous!

Between 1.5 - 2 trillion tons of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska has melted at an accelerated rate since 2003, according to NASA scientists. In one of the latest signs of what they say is a continuing trend of global warming.