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  1. Why Kids Ask Why LiveScience.com - Mon Nov 23, 11:46 AM ETSent 946 times

    A child's never-ending "why's" aren't meant to exasperate parents, scientists say. Rather, the kiddy queries are genuine attempts at getting at the truth, and tots respond better to some answers than others.

  2. Scientists gather at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) data quality satellite control center of the ATLAS detectors during the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Scientists turned on the Large Hadron Collider on Friday night, Nov. 20, 2009, for the first time since the machine suffered a failure more than a year ago and had to be shut down shortly after the start. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
    Big Bang atom smasher starts speeding proton beams AP - Tue Nov 24, 11:56 AM ETSent 727 times

    GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher used its accelerator Tuesday to speed up proton beams for the first time as scientists moved ahead in efforts to learn more about the universe.

  3. Shocking Treatment Helps Erectile Dysfunction LiveScience.com - Mon Nov 23, 8:36 AM ETSent 117 times

    If you experience impotence, instead of a little blue pill maybe you want to apply shockwaves to your privates instead.

  4. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Mars in 2005. A new detailed map of Mars shows what was likely a vast ocean in the north and valleys around the equator, suggesting that the planet once had a humid, rainy climate, according to research published Monday.(AFP/NASA-HO/File)
    New Map Bolsters Case for Ancient Ocean on Mars SPACE.com - Mon Nov 23, 5:30 PM ETSent 101 times

    Several lines of evidence point to the possibility of a past ocean on Mars, from apparent ancient shorelines to chemicals in the soil.

  5. File photo shows people evacuating a village close to Havana following Hurrican Ike. Flooding in the world's major port cities caused by melting icecaps could cause up to 28 trillion dollars (18 trillion euros) in damage in 2050, environmental group WWF said in a report Monday.(AFP/File/Adalberto Roque)
    Melting icecaps to damage major port cities: WWF AFP - Mon Nov 23, 1:56 AM ETSent 68 times

    GENEVA (AFP) - Flooding in the world's major port cities caused by melting icecaps could cause up to 28 trillion dollars (18 trillion euros) in damage in 2050, environmental group WWF said in a report Monday.

  6. University students carry large red ribbons on a street during an HIV/AIDS awareness rally ahead of World AIDS day in Shenyang, Liaoning province November 29, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer
    UN: HIV outbreak peaked in 1996 AP - Tue Nov 24, 10:14 AM ETSent 21 times

    GENEVA - The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS — about 33 million — has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.

  7. Texting a Pain in the Neck, Study Suggests LiveScience.com - Mon Nov 16, 12:02 PM ETSent 18 times

    Texting long messages can be a pain in the neck - literally.

  8. This image made from NASA TV Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 shows the 12 space travelers aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex during a news conference. Atlantis will undock from the space station on Wednesday. (AP Photo/NASA)
    Shuttle, station crews seal hatches for departure AP - Tue Nov 24, 2:02 PM ETSent 17 times

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After nearly a week together, the crews of shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station said goodbye Tuesday and closed the hatches between them.

  9. 5 Questionable Health Screening Tests LiveScience.com - Tue Nov 24, 2:02 PM ETSent 13 times

    Knowledge is power, unless that knowledge comes with so much baggage that it becomes crippling. Such is the trouble with many cancer and health screening tests.

  10. FILE - This March 17, 2009 file photo shows the cooling towers of Three Mile Island's Unit 1 Nuclear Power Plant reflected in a parking lot puddle in Middletown, Pa. A small amount of radiation was detected in a reactor building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania Saturday afternoon, 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    Pipe-cutting led to radiation at Pa. nuke plant AP - Mon Nov 23, 2:48 PM ETSent 12 times

    HARRISBURG, Pa. - Radioactive dust unexpectedly blew out of a pipe being cut by workers during weekend maintenance at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, and officials on Monday were trying to determine exactly how and why it happened.

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  1. Interactive graphic on the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest atom-smasher, which was shut down soon after its inauguration amid technical faults and is set to restart.(AFP iactiv)
    Big Bang atom smasher starts speeding proton beams AP - Tue Nov 24, 11:56 AM ET

    GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher used its accelerator Tuesday to speed up proton beams for the first time as scientists moved ahead in efforts to learn more about the universe.

  2. In this image from NASA TV, members of the combined Space Shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station crews embrace during a farewell and hatch closing ceremony as the shuttle prepares for undocking from the station November 24, 2009. REUTERS/NASA TV (UNITED STATES SCI TECH) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
    Shuttle, station crews seal hatches for departure AP - Tue Nov 24, 2:02 PM ET

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After nearly a week together, the crews of shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station said goodbye Tuesday and closed the hatches between them.

  3. Shocking Treatment Helps Erectile Dysfunction LiveScience.com - Mon Nov 23, 8:36 AM ET

    If you experience impotence, instead of a little blue pill maybe you want to apply shockwaves to your privates instead.

  4. UN: HIV outbreak peaked in 1996 AP - Tue Nov 24, 10:14 AM ET

    GENEVA - The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS — about 33 million — has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.

  5. Is Case Finally Closed on 1965 Pennsylvania 'UFO Mystery'? SPACE.com - Tue Nov 24, 4:16 PM ET

    In the chronicles of UFO oddness, there's been a long-standing oddity – some say folklore, others deem it reality. This saga, now over four decades old, centers on a reported out-of-the-sky incident involving the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.

  6. A highway in San Francisco, California. US President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to boost hopes of a landmark deal at the Copenhagen climate summit, as a new report showed the crisis facing the planet is deeper than previously thought.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)
    Obama, Singh boost hopes of climate deal AFP - 1 hour, 53 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama sought to boost hopes of a landmark deal at the Copenhagen climate summit, as a new report showed the crisis facing the planet is deeper than previously thought.

  7. New Map Bolsters Case for Ancient Ocean on Mars SPACE.com - Mon Nov 23, 5:30 PM ET

    Several lines of evidence point to the possibility of a past ocean on Mars, from apparent ancient shorelines to chemicals in the soil.

  8. Play 'Cosmic Slot Machine' and Help Astronomers SPACE.com - Tue Nov 24, 11:00 AM ET

    A new website will let people play a form of "cosmic slot machine," matching up images of colliding galaxies with millions of simulated mash-ups to find the best model.

  9. Melting icecaps to damage major port cities: WWF AFP - Mon Nov 23, 1:56 AM ET

    GENEVA (AFP) - Flooding in the world's major port cities caused by melting icecaps could cause up to 28 trillion dollars (18 trillion euros) in damage in 2050, environmental group WWF said in a report Monday.

  10. 5 Questionable Health Screening Tests LiveScience.com - Tue Nov 24, 2:02 PM ET

    Knowledge is power, unless that knowledge comes with so much baggage that it becomes crippling. Such is the trouble with many cancer and health screening tests.

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  1. A shadow of a scientist is projected as he walks past a screen at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) control center of the ATLAS detectors during the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva. Two circulating beams produced the first particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider, three days after its restart, scientists announced.(AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
    Big Bang atom smasher starts speeding proton beams AP - Tue Nov 24, 11:56 AM ET

    GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher used its accelerator Tuesday to speed up proton beams for the first time as scientists moved ahead in efforts to learn more about the universe.

  2. China moves to protect pandas from swine flu AP - Tue Nov 24, 7:03 AM ET

    BEIJING - A panda research center in northwestern China has been closed to visitors as a precaution to protect the endangered species from catching swine flu, state media reported on Tuesday.

  3. Wind turbines turn in the breeze near Peitz, about 150 km(93 miles) southeast of Berlin, November 24, 2009. Heads of states will gather in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 for a U.N. climate summit to come up with a new U.N. plan to succeed the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT ENERGY)
    Obama, Singh boost hopes of climate deal AFP - 1 hour, 53 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama sought to boost hopes of a landmark deal at the Copenhagen climate summit, as a new report showed the crisis facing the planet is deeper than previously thought.

  4. China called on the European Union to step up cooperation on climate change. "Soon after the summit the international community will have the Copenhagen conference on climate change," Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun, pictured in 2006 said, referring to the meeting in Denmark to agree a new UN pact on global warming.(AFP/HO/File)
    China calls for stepped up climate cooperation with EU AFP - Tue Nov 24, 12:10 PM ET

    BEIJING (AFP) - China called on the European Union Tuesday to step up cooperation on climate change, saying global warming would be at the top of the agenda at next week's China-EU summit.

  5. European Space Agency astronaut Frank DeWinne (L), the first ESA Commander of the International Space Station, speaks during a change of command ceremony with the combined crews of the station and the Space Shuttle Atlantis in this image from NASA TV November 24, 2009. REUTERS/NASA TV (UNITED STATES SCI TECH) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
    Shuttle, station crews seal hatches for departure AP - Tue Nov 24, 2:02 PM ET

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After nearly a week together, the crews of shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station said goodbye Tuesday and closed the hatches between them.

  6. Effort to scrap anti-nuclear law in Minn. ramps up AP - Tue Nov 24, 2:33 PM ET

    ST. PAUL, Minn. - A push to scrap a Minnesota law barring new nuclear power plants gained a pair of influential supporters Tuesday, adding intensity to a debate before a state Legislature that has narrowly resisted the change.

  7. Fla. Ag candidate says 'No, Baby, No' to drilling AP - Tue Nov 24, 10:25 AM ET

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A Democratic candidate for agriculture commissioner has a response to Republican calls to "Drill, Baby, Drill."

  8. Climate Con Job Investor's Business Daily - Tue Nov 24, 6:44 PM ET

    Junk Science: The Senate expects to take up global warming legislation by spring, but nothing more should happen in Congress on this issue until there's been a thorough probe of the ClimateGate scandal.

  9. A NASA image shows Planet Earth in one of the most up-to-date images of the world to date. Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued Tuesday.(AFP/HO/NASA/File)
    Mankind using Earth's resources at alarming rate AFP - Tue Nov 24, 1:00 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued Tuesday.

  10. FILE - This Oct. 4, 2009 file photo shows Daniel Fawcett of the U.S. Forest Service setting a back-fire to combat a wildfire in Wrightwood, Calif. Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated, beyond some of the grimmest warnings. Officials from across the world will convene in Copenhagen next month to seek a follow-up pact, one that President Barack Obama says 'has immediate operational effect...an important step forward in the effort to rally the world around a solution.' (AP Photo/Francis Specker, File)
    Opposition backs Australian carbon reduction bill AP - Tue Nov 24, 10:09 AM ET

    CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's opposition leader Tuesday pledged his party's support for contentious legislation proposed by the government aimed at curbing the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

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