Scientists were today celebrating the first successful prediction of an asteroid smashing into the Earth's atmosphere. The chunk of space debris burst in a spectacular fireball though it was no more than 15ft across.

Refrigeration and cooling have an often-overlooked but nonetheless major impact on global warming. That's why Greenpeace has teamed up with Ben & Jerry's to bring climate-friendly freezers to

Someone "sprayed an irritant into the mosque". The 300 or so inside were celebrating the last 10 days of Ramadan with dinner and a prayer session.Wiley said an adult and juvenile were taken to area hospitals and others had their eyes or faces washed.

A chemical was sprayed into a room where babies and children were being kept while mothers were at prayer in the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton Mosque on Friday. An anti-Muslim DVD being distributed may have been the instigation for the attack.

Mr Oktar, 52, who successfully campaigned for Mr Dawkins' official website to be banned in Turkey, has said he will give 10 trillion Turkish lira, roughly equal to £4.4trn "to anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution."

As the world seems to march toward downloaded or streamed digital music, SanDisk today is unveiling a new physical medium for music.It's called slotMusic, and it's basically an album on a thumbnail-size microSD card.

Chris Stringer and colleagues (including Finlayson and Barton) have a paper in the current PNAS early bin describing Neandertal exploitation of marine mammals in the Gibraltar caves (Vanguard and Gorham's). The Neandertals left some seals and dolphin bone

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A newly discovered species of a blind, subterranean predator -- dubbed the "Ant from Mars" -- is likely a descendant of one of the very first ants to evolve on Earth, a new study finds.

So this website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?