Aphids Are Sentinels Of Climate Change

Your fingerprints can now be analyzed to discover what you've touched. The analyzer that does this - if it can be miniaturized and automated - will also be able to find molecules associated with cancer in the human body.

Today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration marks its first half-century of exploration and discovery. But missions to the Moon and beyond are only part of the story. Without Nasa's scientists, life on Earth would be very different indeed.

A gang of Russian hackers is infesting computers using a program called Coreflood to record keystrokes and grabs other information from at least 100,000 computers using Microsoft administrative tools. Joe Stewart is hot on their trail, though.

Guess who made the anthrax antidote? - Bayer Dealing anthrax and other biological weapons to Iraq: James Baker, Donald Rumsfeld, and George H.W. Bush It's just business The US news media is unlikely to ask the most obvious question about

The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people. The FBI estimated the chances of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be 1 in 113 billion.

Known as the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, it will award $10 million to whomever can crack the 100-mpg puzzle and best demonstrate the achievement during cross-country races.

NOAA scientists reported in the current issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives that an algal toxin commonly inhaled in sea spray, attacks and damages DNA in the lungs of laboratory rats.

The mountain of Le Morne, a former hideout of runaway slaves in Mauritius, a Nabataean archaeological site in Saudi Arabia and earthen houses in Fujian Province in China have been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

A major archaeological investigation is getting under way at one of Western Europe's most impressive prehistoric sites.