In recent months, two similar projects have stirred concerns about their safety and their propensity to cause earthquakes. In the United States, the Energy Department is scrutinizing a project in Northern California run by AltaRock Energy to determine...

Repairs to two small helium leaks in the world's largest atom smasher will delay the restart of the giant machine another month until November, a spokesman for the operator said. James Gillies said an additional setback to the timing could result

The discovery of ancient human burial site in Niger, Africa last Summer (by Paleontologist Paul Sereno, Univ. of Chicago) with graves possessing numerous artifacts and and even plant fibers and seeds, was indirect confirmation of what scientists have

An infant chimpanzee seized in Africa for the US Air Force in the 1950s, Marty was recruited into the military's air and space research program, paving the way for America's first manned spaceflight in 1961 and, ultimately, the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, computer scientists are debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society's workload

LAKES rather than oceans may have given birth to the first animals, new research suggests. Complex animal life appeared around 500 million years ago after three billion years of nothing living on Earth but simple single-cell organisms such as bacteria

Just as CERN finished repairing the damage last September's Large Hadron Collider helium leak, a new problem cropped up. Engineers discovered two vacuum leaks in areas of the enormous atom smasher that are supposed to be maintained at ultracold

Females may be outwardly choosy when selecting sexual partners -- accepting or shunning mates in very public ways -- but males may get the last say in this battle of the sexes.New research found that males can adjust the speed and effectiveness of their

Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon.Now, they'll be able to watch the Apollo 11 mission recreated in real time on the Web, follow Twitter feeds of transmissions betwee

The Senate confirmed on Wednesday retired astronaut Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden as administrator of NASA, just in time for the space agency's 40th anniversary celebrations of man's first steps on the moon.His confirmation also came just hours after the laun