As usual, Beck's hysterical rantings have no basis in reality or fact and as usual the same dedicated collection of wing-nuts and conspiracy theorists have picked up the story as gospel truth without even the slightest degree of skepticism or doubt.

Earth Day may fall later this week, but as far as former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and other UFO enthusiasts are concerned, the real story is happening elsewhere.

The world-renowned scientist and writer, who is paralysed with motor neurone disease, was taken to hospital by ambulance for 'urgent tests' after his condition worsened.

GeoEye-1, the satellite that will supply Google with high-resolution imagery of the Earth, took a high-resolution photograph of the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The satellite is expected to start producing data for Google in coming weeks.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Global warming is increasing the frequency of extremely high clouds in the Earth's tropics that cause severe storms and rainfall, according to a NASA study released Friday.

Omega Centauri is one of the finest jewels of the southern hemisphere night sky, as ESO's latest stunning image beautifully illustrates.

Louis Pasteur said, "Chance favors the prepared mind." That's the genius behind all these accidental inventions - the scientists were prepared. They did their science on the brink and were able to see the magic in a mistake, set-back, or coincidence.

But then media caught on to something that no oil spill had seen before: an activist named Lisa Gautier and several hundred volunteers were using mats of human hair to soak up the oil from the sands of Ocean Beach, just south of the Golden Gate Bridge.

GRIDPP has been created for the CERN Large Hadron Collider, a tier design - fibre optic - near the speed of light information transfer system, operating globally. This has allowed the UK to design the new, next generation future public search engine!

SolarCraft has just announced it has completed the design and installation of a 39.2 kW solar-electric grid system for Trione Vineyards in Geyserville, California.