Scientists have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision, and they find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar activity the sun develops a thin "cantaloupe skin" that increases its apparent oblateness.

The New Scientist has a gallery of gorgeous images that visualize science as artwork. The images are the winners of the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge: "The awards are given to the best photographs, illustrations and

A new initiative to bring old newspapers that pre-date the digital age to the web has been launched by the search giant Google. The company has partnered with around 100 newspapers to digitize them and make scanned copies available online.

Scientists have discovered that the last Siberian woolly mammoths may have originated in North America. Their research in the journal Current Biology represents the largest study of ancient woolly mammoth DNA.

"On the positive side, polyethylene products are a stable ingredient in landfills. They are not toxic and do not give off leachate or methane gas." In plain English, this means that plastic does not bio-degrade, it remains in the ground INDEFINITELY...

A bipartisan group of state legislators introduced a bill Wednesday to encourage the production of a "plug-in" hybrid vehicle.The bill is designed to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil from trouble spots around the world.

The inclusion of the Olympic data on the 2,100-year-old Antikythera mechanism provides evidence that for its scientific sophistication, the device also was put to practical use, researchers say.

An effort to enhance the United States' ability to detect "dirty bombs" went terribly awry at the Boulder campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology where dangerous plutonium sources were obtained without management approval

A total solar eclipse will darken some of Earth's skies on Friday, but geography, weather, the economy and even the Olympics are combining to make it a hard and expensive for people to see it. The total blotting out of the sun, which occurs

Call them the paleo-paparazzi. Scientists trying to learn more about dinosaurs are snapping aerial photos of tracks left behind millions of years ago near southern Utah's Coral Pink Sand Dunes. Researchers in a specially equipped helicopter