It was entirely predictable that the denialists would hype up the glitch in the surface temperature record for last month. This opinion piece by Christopher Booker was picked up by Drudge, so the usual collection of global warming denialists have been ful

This is too much. Sarah Palin gave a policy speech today in which she claimed that she wanted more support for children with disabilities, more tools to test for disorders, and while also decrying the expense of scientific research.

The longest living insect in the world is Phobaeticus Chani, also known as Chan's megastick. We showed you some giant insects in here before and knew that the record was hold by Borneo native Phobaeticus kirbyi, at more than 14 inches (35.6 cm), but not a

McCain urges his supporters to be respectful of Obama McCain-Palin supporters increasing their attacks on Obama during rallies Some supporters have yelled out "treason," "kill him" and "terrorist"

A bug which lives entirely on its own and survives without oxygen in complete darkness underground has been discovered in South Africa.

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.

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.

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