on Friday, July 4th. Red Mars and ringed Saturn converge just to the left of the bright star Regulus. Saturday, July 5th, with weekend fireworks at fever pitch, a lovely crescent Moon joins the show. Saturn, Mars, and the Moon trace

July 1, 2008: News Flash: On 4th of July weekend, NASA forecasts lights in the sky. No, not those lights. Look beyond the fireworks. Almost halfway up the western sky, just above the twilight glow of sunset, a trio of worlds is gathering: Saturn, Mar

Photovoltaics, the direct conversion of sunlight to electricity, could match and exceed the nuclear industry's current output before any new reactor could begin operating.

A PICTISH stone found in Cunningsburgh has been described as the most important archaeological discovery in Shetland for 10 years.

Dunwich, on the Suffolk coast, was a thriving metropolis before a series of storms and sea surges consigned the city to the North Sea five centuries ago.

. . .people often take the innovation of new technology for granted without giving much thought to the trial-and-error experimentation. . .

A clump of hair that lay frozen in the Greenland tundra for 4,000 years has yielded DNA from the earliest Arctic residents, and offers clues to their origins.

Research suggests our ancestors traveled the oceans 70,000 years ago.

Chimps and orangutans agree: Humor is truly fundamental.

As the Earth revolves around the Sun, it orbits through planetary debris left from the formation of the solar system.