Nov. 8, Mercury will pass through inferior conjunction, a point in its orbit where it is directly between Earth and the Sun. Normally the innermost planet is not visible during an inferior conjunction.

A new paper published in the American Journal of Human Biology concludes that having a male in a household can affect the timing of menarche, when a young woman first gets her period.

"We've recreated some of the key systems that plants use in photosynthesis."

A biological scientist has published a paper suggesting that human culture may be significantly influenced by a parasite that commonly infects cats, but also targets humans.

A team of South Korean scientists on Sunday claimed to have created a "cellular fountain of youth,'' or a small molecule, which enables human cells to avoid aging and dying. The team argued the newly-synthesized molecule, can even make cells younger.

Microsoft gives up a sneak peek at their latest work which they'll be demonstrating next Wednesday 8/2 at SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston.... very cool vid.

Rare mother-of-pearl colored clouds caused by extreme weather conditions are seen above Australia's meteorological base in Antarctica, July 25.

An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe

A new haptic device will be shown at the next SIGGRAPH. This virtual reality system, the Fingertip Digitizer, has been developed at the University of Buffalo

Any Open-source FairPlay DRM projects could find their creators in the slammer for up to three years, and fined up to $375,000. I feel for any Care2 folks in France if this gets finalized. Would this mean no french wikis, I wonder? OpenOffice 2.0? etc