| Google Maps Gets a 'Face-Lift'  | What happens when you combine Google Maps with facial recognition software? You get Google Faces – a search tool that scans the earth's surface, finding human features in unlikely places.
| Read More »  Elusive Animals Caught on Camera in China  | New hidden camera footage from the giant panda's home offers a peek into the secret lives of China's wild creatures.
| Read More » GPS Could Issue Tsunami Alert in Minutes  | The global positioning system (GPS) — the same system that helps people navigate unfamiliar places — could also serve as an early-warning system for tsunamis, according to new research.
| Read More » See Jupiter, Venus and Mercury Dance in Sunset Sky  | Take a look at the western sky just after sunset this week, and you'll see an amazing sight: three bright planets in close formation.
| Read More » Elusive Pandas Caught on Camera in China Habitat | New hidden camera footage from the giant panda's home offers a peek into the secret lives of China's wild creatures.
| Read More » Surprising Pollution Problem: Too Many Trees (Op-Ed) Read More » New Cave-Dwelling Scorpion Species Discovered  | Two new species of short-tailed whip scorpions have been found living deep inside the cool, humid caves of northeastern Brazil, a study reports.
| Read More » Dogs Bring Swarm of Bacteria Into Your Home  | Your loyal pooch may be bringing a whole world of bacteria into your home — but don't panic. Research suggests that exposure to a wide variety of microbes may be good for us.
| Read More » Baby's Life Saved with 3D Printing  | When April and Bryan Gionfriddo brought home their newborn son, Kaiba, in October 2011, he seemed like a healthy baby. But one night, when the family was out to dinner, Kaiba stopped being able to breathe and turned blue. Bryan laid Kaiba, just 6 weeks old, on the restaurant table and performed chest compressions on him before he was rushed to the hospital.
| Read More » Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon  | By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday. The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. So far, more than 300 strikes have been recorded. ...
| Read More » U.S. industry touts 'drone' promise as public debate flares  | By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public backlash against deadly overseas drone strikes may undermine promising uses of such technology for anything from disaster response to mail delivery, a top U.S. industry group said as it launched a lobbying effort to "demystify" unmanned planes. The Aerospace Industries Association wants to prevent misperceptions and regulatory roadblocks from cutting into a market it says could be worth $89 billion over the next decade, according to a report the trade group will release on Thursday. ...
| Read More » NASA investing in 3-D food printer for astronauts  | By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - In a scene right out of Star Trek, a Texas company is developing a 3-D food printer for astronauts to create custom meals on the fly. With support from NASA, the firm, Systems and Materials Research Corp of Austin, intends to design, build and test a food printer that can work in space. "This project is to demonstrate we can create and change the nutrition of the food and be able to print it in a low-gravity environment," the company's research director and lead chemist, David Irvin, told Reuters. ...
| Read More » The Career That's Growing in Popularity: Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship has become a popular career option for people from all across the United States. Read More » Lost Apollo 11 Moon Dust Found in Storage  | Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon have been found inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years.
| Read More » China Space Program Ramping Up Capabilities, Pentagon Says  | China's growing space prowess shows no signs of slowing, the U.S. Department of Defense said in its annual report to Congress on military and security developments involving the People's Republic of China.
| Read More » Can We Protect Against the Next Moore Tornado?  | The scenes of devastation in Moore, Okla., after a possibly 2-mile-wide tornado tore apart schools and homes on Monday (May 20) led to an inevitable question: Could anything have been done to save buildings and lives?
| Read More » Tornado Recovery: What Moore Can Learn from Joplin  | Monday's monster tornado in Moore, Okla., was a terrible reminder of nature's tremendous wrath for people in Joplin, Mo., a town also hit by one of the country's worst twisters.
| Read More » Normal or Not? When Collecting Becomes Hoarding Perhaps the piles of newspapers, almost-working appliances, or old Barbie dolls start out as part of a harmless, if eccentric, collection. Or perhaps they are items on a languishing to-do list. But as the clutter builds, it can become pathological. Read More » The Art and Science of the Diagram: Communicating the Knowledge of the Heavens, the Earth and the Arcane, Final Part  | The Art and Science of the Diagram: Communicating the Knowledge of the Heavens, the Earth and the Arcane, Final Part
| Read More » 3D Printers Demonstrate Rapid Robot Evolution  | NEW YORK — Robots are simply more efficient than humans at certain tasks. They already excel at building cars, exploring distant planets and hunting for explosives, but it turns out that robots might also evolve much faster than their flesh-and-blood counterparts.
| Read More » Heat-Related Deaths in NYC May Increase with Climate Change  | Heat-related deaths in New York City's borough of Manhattan may rise about 20 percent over the next decade, according to a new study.
| Read More » More Evidence That Ancient Mars Could Support Life Found by Old Rover  | The venerable Mars rover Opportunity, the older and smaller cousin of Curiosity, has discovered another water-weathered rock hinting that the Red Planet could have supported life in its ancient past, NASA officials said.
| Read More » Solar Plane Completes Longest Leg of Cross-Country Flight  | A solar-powered airplane successfully completed the longest leg of its historic coast-to-coast flight across the United States today (May 23), landing in Dallas after nearly 20 hours in the air.
| Read More » Stephen Hawking Gets Superhero Treatment in New Comic  | Living legend Stephen Hawking has already achieved superhero status in the eyes of many science geeks, and now his ideas are being honored in comic book form.
| Read More » Glow-in-the-Dark Cockroach Among Top 10 New Species  | A glowing cockroach, a monkey with a blue behind and a meat-eating sponge snagged spots on a list of top 10 new species named in 2012, scientists announced today (May 23).
| Read More » Moore Tornado Damage Revealed in Google Maps Image  | A satellite image available via Google Maps shows the path that a deadly tornado took as it tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday (May 20) and the scar it etched into the suburban landscape.
| Read More » NASA Unveils Space Apps Contest Champions  | An interplanetary weather app, a spot-the-space-station tool, and a Mars greenhouse concept are among the winners of the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge. The contest solicited mobile apps and technologies that aid space exploration and enrich life here on Earth.
| Read More » Europe Opens New Asteroid-Hunting Center  | Europe has a new hub that will help coordinate scientists' efforts to detect and track potentially dangerous asteroids.
| Read More » 7-Minute Workout: Fact vs. Fiction The "seven-minute workout" is getting a lot of attention these days, and it sure sounds enticing. But experts say the express exercise routine is not as effective — or as short — as it sounds. Read More » Simple Vision Test Predicts IQ  | A simple visual test is surprisingly accurate at predicting IQ, according to new research.
| Read More » How the White Tiger Got His Coat  | The strikingly beautiful, milky coats of white tigers are caused by a single change in a known pigment gene, a new study finds.
| Read More » Solar plane completes second leg of cross-country flight in Texas DALLAS (Reuters) - A solar airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the globe landed safely on Thursday in Texas, completing the second and longest leg of an attempt to fly across the United States powered only by the sun. The spindly experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse, touched down at Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport shortly after 1 a.m. local time, logging 18 hours and 21 minutes in the air to cover 823 nautical miles from Arizona. The flight set a new absolute world distance record in solar aviation, organizers said. ... Read More » Yikes! Cockroaches Evolved to Avoid Sugary Baits  | In the ongoing battle between humans and cockroaches, the insects have a leg up. A new study finds that roaches evolved their taste buds to make sweet insecticide baits taste bitter. As a result, the roaches avoid the baits and thrive, to the frustration of homeowners everywhere.
| Read More » Captive-Bred Wallabies May Spread Antibiotic Resistance  | Wallabies in captivity carry antibiotic-resistant gut bacteria, which they could potentially transmit to wild populations, a new study finds.
| Read More » Amazing Ash Cloud Spied from Space Station  | Clear skies and a passing space station combined for an extraordinary view of Alaska's erupting Pavlof volcano on May 18.
| Read More » H7N9 Flu Study Hints at How It May Spread in People It's likely that the new H7N9 bird flu virus can spread through the air on a limited basis, according to a new study that looked at how the virus spreads in animals. Read More » Star Mystery Solved: Stellar Twins Closer to Earth Than Thought  | A strange pair of stars is much closer to Earth than scientists ever thought, a discovery that finally helps explain a puzzling mystery behind the stellar twins, scientists say.
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