The largest and most powerful space telescope will be launched this month in a tandem mission that promises to transform understanding of the origins of the Universe and the birth of its stars and galaxies.The Herschel space observatory will blast off>>

A senior British Army officer and 6 other military personnel survived attack when a tethered donkey laden with explosives was detonated as their armored vehicle passed in southern Afghanistan.The huge explosion showered the soldier standing on "top cover"

24 unusual stars,18 of them newly discovered, have been observed in new Hubble telescope images.The stars are white dwarfs,a common type of dead star, but they are odd because they are made of helium rather than the usual carbon and oxygen."Helium-core>>

Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date. The water vapor is thought to be contained in a jet ejected from a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy,named MG J0414+0534.The water emission is seen as a maser>

The Obama administration opened the way to regulating U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on Friday by declaring climate-warming pollution a danger to human health and welfare,in a sharp policy shift from the Bush administration.Environmental activists and >>

New calculations made by marine chemists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) suggest that low-oxygen "dead zones" in the ocean could expand significantly over the next century.Concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing rapidly>

Before leaving office,the Bush Administration snuck through midnight regulations that would weaken the Endangered Species Act.The regulations make it harder to protect polar bears,gray wolves,canadian lynx,pacific salmon and thousands of other endangered

Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea.The 47.5 million-year-old fossils,discovered in>>

There is a 15 yr old boy in Massachusetts that wants the legislature of the state to make it illegal to remove the vocal cords of dogs and cats. I would like to help him by starting this petition and getting at least 10,000 signatures and sending it to

Here is another example of a young Australian getting away lightly with animal torture. What message does this give to young Australians? What about introducing tougher penalties to perpetrators for their cruelty to animals? This will be a better deterent