| Active Hurricane Season Expected, US Forecasters Say  | Get ready for a busy and possibly "extremely active" hurricane season, said forecasters who today (May 23) unveiled their predictions of the number and intensity of storms expected in the Atlantic Ocean basin during the 2013 hurricane season.
| Read More »  NASA puts shuttle launch pad in Florida up for lease  | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida. In a notice posted on its procurement website, the U.S. space agency said it was looking for one or more companies to take over operations and maintenance of Launch Complex 39A. The facility is one of two launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center built in the 1960s to support the Apollo moon program. Both were later modified for the space shuttles, which began flying in 1981. ...
| Read More » China Media Claim Private Mars Colony Mission Is a Scam  | Some people may find it hard to believe that a private mission will succeed in landing four astronauts on Mars in 2023, but several state-run media outlets in China are targeting the project with even harsher terms like "hoax" and "hype."
| Read More » Hubble Telescope Reveals True 3D Shape of Ring Nebula (Photos)  | The iconic Ring Nebula may seem like just a stunning circle of wispy interstellar gas, but new images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal it to be more like a deep-space jelly doughnut, scientists say.
| Read More » Destination Moon: Private Spaceflight Companies Eye Lunar Bases  | Human exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon.
| Read More » Battle-Bruised King Richard III Buried in Hasty Grave  | The body of King Richard III was buried in great haste, a new study finds — perhaps because the medieval monarch's corpse had been out for three days in the summer sun.
| Read More » Commercial human ventures planned for the moon: NASA study By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday shows. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures, said Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm. ... Read More » How Celibate Gay Christians Deal With Desire  | Between the faction of gay Christians who are happy with their sexual identity and "ex-gays," who say they've removed their homosexual yearnings, is a third group that gets little attention. These so-called Side B Christians identify as gay and believe it's not sinful to do so. But because they see acting on their orientation as ungodly, they commit to a life of celibacy.
| Read More » Pregnancy Hormone May Predict Postpartum-Depression Risk SAN FRANCISCO — Levels of a stress hormone released by the placenta could predict a woman's risk of developing postpartum depression, new research suggests. Read More » Sally Ride, 1st US Woman in Space, to Be Awarded Medal of Freedom Posthumously  | Sally Ride, the United States' first woman in space, will be posthumously honored with the country's highest civilian commendation and the renaming of a high-flying camera.
| Read More » Spaceport America Helps Launch Sci-Fi Film 'After Earth'  | TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — The chopper descends towards a giant runway surrounded by scrubby, red earth of the New Mexico desert. At the center sits a hangar as big as a city block that looks like the launching pad for an alien fleet.
| Read More » Lackluster Lunar Eclipse: Full Moon Dips In Earth's Shadow Tonight  | North America will be well positioned to see a lunar eclipse late tonight (May 24), but it might not be worth waiting up for.
| Read More » Why the Internet Sucks You in Like a Black Hole "Checking Facebook should only take a minute." Read More » The Best Beaches of 2013 Announced Frequented by the rich and famous, Main Beach in East Hampton on Long Island, N.Y., has been named the top beach of 2013. Read More » Mystery of Irish Potato Famine Solved  | The Irish potato famine that caused mass starvation and approximately 1 million deaths in the mid-19th century was triggered by a newly identified strain of potato blight that has been christened "HERB-1," according to a new study.
| Read More » Cold-Loving Bacteria Offer Clues for Life on Mars  | A microbe discovered in the Canadian high Arctic thrives at the coldest temperature known for bacterial growth.
| Read More » Trip to Space With Leonardo DiCaprio Sells at Auction for $1.5 million  | Actor Leonardo DiCaprio plans to fly to space on Virgin Galactic's new commercial spaceliner, along with the winning bidder in a charity auction at the Cannes film festival, according to news reports.
| Read More » Big Earthquakes Create Global-Scale GPS Errors  | Thirteen years of supersized earthquakes, such as today's (May 24) magnitude-8.3 in Russia, have contaminated GPS sites around the world, a new study finds.
| Read More » Can a Floating Robot Save a Polluted Canal?  | Pity the Gowanus Canal. A forgotten relic of Brooklyn's industrial past, the garbage-choked waterway is now home to a putrid stew of toxic waste.
| Read More » Brood II Cicadas Now Bugging New Yorkers  | The 17-year-old sex-crazed cicadas of Brood II have started to stir in Staten Island.
| Read More » Pow! Mars Hit By Space Rocks 200 Times a Year  | Small space rocks are carving fresh craters into the Martian surface more often than previously thought, researchers say. A new study finds that there are more than 200 asteroid impacts on the Red Planet every year.
| Read More » Private Spaceships for Space Tourists to Launch Big Test Flights  | LONG BEACH, Calif. — Private suborbital space planes built by two space tourism companies will likely launch some major test flights before this year is out, their builders say.
| Read More » 25 Worst Gadget Flops of All Time  | There are gadgets that change everything (the iPhone, the first Intel Centrino laptops, Bose's noise-canceling headphones), and then there are devices that are so spectacularly bad that they should be immortalized in their own way. The last few decades have seen all kinds of flops, from a not-so-world-changing scooter to Nokia's attempt to beat Nintendo and Sony at their own game.
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