Sunday's Supermoon Won't Drive You Mad  | The full moon that will rise Sunday (June 23) will be the largest of the year, a "supermoon" caused by the slightly asymmetrical orbit of the moon around Earth.
| Read More »  Fiber-Optic Pen May Help Scientists Understand Dyslexia  | A new fiber-optic pen may help reveal the unique brain patterns in people with writing and reading disabilities, such as dyslexia.
| Read More » Why the Bering Strait Is Under Siege (Op-Ed)  | Frances Beinecke is the president of NRDC, served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, and holds a leadership role in several environmental organizations. She contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights
| Read More » Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Links Early Modern Ideas  | Online social networks and data mining make it possible for researchers today to trace the spread and influence of ideas across webs of connected individuals in real time. But piecing together those links is trickier for scholars studying thinkers and leaders of the 16th and 17th centuries who used letters instead of Facebook.
| Read More » How Landmark Noise Settlement Protects Oceans and Industry (Op-Ed)  | Michael Jasny, director of the NRDC Marine Mammal Project, contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights .
| Read More » Can Liquid Biopsy Remove the Colonoscopy Fear Factor? (Op-Ed)  | PGXL Laboratories, which specializes in personalized medicine. He is also a professor and immediate past senior vice chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Louisville. He contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights
| Read More » Ruins of Maya City Discovered in Remote Jungle  | An entire Maya city full of pyramids and palatial complexes has been discovered in a remote jungle in southeastern Mexico, archaeologists report.
| Read More » Summer Solstice Marks Changing Seasons on Earth Today  | The sun will reach the point where it appears to shine farthest to the north of the equator, over the Tropic of Cancer, today (June 21), marking the moment of the summer solstice — the start of northern summer.
| Read More » 5 Words That Get Results Business Meetings Forget presentations, handshakes and power suits: Workers looking to make the biggest impact in a business meeting should instead focus on using a very specific set of words. Read More » 7 Space Technology Experiments to Launch on Rocket Ride Today  | Seven space-technology experiments are slated to blast off Friday (June 21) on a NASA-funded suborbital research flight.
| Read More » Supermoon Rises in Weekend Night Sky Sunday  | The largest full moon of 2013, a so-called "supermoon," will light up the night sky this weekend, but there's more to this lunar delight than meets the eye.
| Read More » Source of Fungal Infection Outbreak a Mystery, CDC Says In the largest outbreak ever reported in the U.S. of blastomycosis, a fungal infection with flulike symptoms, 55 people in central Wisconsin became sick in 2010. Read More » Mapping Puerto Rican Heritage with Spit and Genomics  | When it came time for students to pick genes to study from the genomes of their fellow Puerto Ricans, Alexandra Wiscovitch chose those responsible for hair and eye color. As a modeling teacher, she had noticed her students had a variety of both.
| Read More » Feeling Envious or Lustful? Brain Scans Can Tell  | In the latest leap of mind-reading, scientists say they were able to decipher a person's emotions through brain scans.
| Read More » Galaxy Crash Spawns Space Penguin in Hubble Telescope Photo  | A cosmic penguin shines 326 million light-years from Earth in a stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.
| Read More » New Electronics Can Withstand Bodily Fluids  | Electronics and bodily fluids don't mix well. But new technology enables electronic devices to function in direct contact with tissues inside the body. The technology could allow scientists to make sensors that detect the early stages of organ transplant rejection, or create artificial nerves, researchers say.
| Read More » World's Clearest Lake Yields Stunning Photos  | It's not every day that you get to take underwater photos in the clearest lake on Earth, in which nobody has before been allowed to dive. But that's just the chance that photographer Klaus Thymann got in February on a trip to Blue Lake on New Zealand's South Island.
| Read More » Building Explosion Will Shed Light on Nearby Earthquake Fault  | A planned demolition of a building that can't endure California's earthquakes will also help geologists better understand a fault that could have destroyed the structure.
| Read More » One of Earth's Most Active Volcanoes Named World Heritage Site  | Sicily's Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanoes on the planet, has been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the committee that makes the selections announced today (June 21) from their annual meeting, taking place this year in Cambodia.
| Read More » Air Pollution Hits Record Levels in Singapore  | Wildfires burning on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have sent a choking haze over Singapore, pushing air pollution to record levels.
| Read More » Europe tests reusable spaceship By Irene Klotz PARIS (Reuters) - The European Space Agency is preparing to launch an experimental reusable spaceship next summer following a successful atmospheric test flight this week, officials said at the Paris Airshow. A mock-up built by Thales Alenia Space was dropped from a helicopter flying 1.9 miles above the Mediterranean near Sardinia on Wednesday to check its handling and parachute system, company officials said. The 14.4 foot long (4.4 meter) craft, known as "IXV" as it is an intermediate experimental vehicle, splashed down in the ocean and was retrieved by an awaiting ship. ... Read More » Chlamydia Infections May Increase Cancer Risk Chlamydia infections can cause DNA damage that may increase the risk of later developing cancer, a new study suggests. Read More » Asteroid-mining firm meets $1 million crowd-funding goal By Irene Klotz (Reuters) - A start-up asteroid mining firm that launched a crowd-funding campaign to gauge interest in a planned space telescope reached its $1 million goal, company officials said on Thursday. Bellevue, Washington-based Planetary Resources intends to build and operate telescopes to hunt for asteroids orbiting near Earth and robotic spacecraft to mine them. ... Read More » Last UFO Files from UK Gov't Released  | Why did the British government shut down its official UFO Desk in 2009?
| Read More » Gay Conversion Ministry Shuts Down Exodus International, a Christian ministry that long promoted gay conversion therapy, is shutting its doors and apologizing to the gay community for "years of undue judgment." Read More » Science of Scandal: Why Politicians Bounce Back  | Whether it's former Rep. Anthony Weiner making a comeback from texting photos of his genitals to Twitter followers or former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford securing a House seat after he "hiked the Appalachian trail" in 2009 (his cover story for visiting his Argentinean mistress), some politicians seem simply immune to scandal.
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