Billionaire Richard Branson's latest creation met the press today in the California desert. Branson and legendary designer Burt Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne won the $10 million Ansari X-prize for reaching suborbital space five years ago, unveiled SpaceShip..

National Geographic News's most popular coverage of 2009 scientific finds is swarming with megamouth sharks, giant snakes, a transparent-headed fish, and rare species rescued from obscurity--then eaten.

Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, "The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today ...whether they realize it or not,

NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of asteroids and comets on a collision course with Earth. This spacecraft mission was recommended by Sunstroke author David Kagan, a US aerospace engineer.

Remember when the pesticide lobby attacked First Lady Michelle Obama because she wasn't championing the use of chemicals in her White House garden? Somehow a top official from CropLife -- the powerful chemical industry trade group that went after Mich

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Atlantis Resources Corp is to test the world's biggest tidal turbine in the rough waters off the Orkney Islands next year in preparation for Scotland's plan to use ocean energy for half a million homes by 2020.

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LOS ANGELES -- It turns out there's lots of water on the moon -- at least near the lunar south pole. The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data