'World of Warcraft' Hackers Steal Millions in Gold  | Adventurers in the online game "World of Warcraft" generally have to worry about bandits and dragons, but their most dangerous threat this week comes in the form of gold-hungry hackers. By exploiting the Web and mobile applications for the game's Auction House (which allows players to buy and sell items), malefactors have stolen millions of gold pieces, but players who use two-step authentication are relatively safe.
| Read More »  Aspirin Cuts Colon Cancer Risk, Study Suggests Taking aspirin regularly may reduce the risk of most types of colon cancer, a new study suggests. Read More » Obama Reveals Bold New Climate Change Plan  | President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious new plan today (June 25) to curtail U.S. greenhouse gas emissions as part of a far-reaching climate change strategy that he said, "should send a strong signal to the world that America intends to take bold action to reduce carbon pollution."
| Read More » Power Outage Delays Launch of NASA Solar Observatory  | A power outage in California over the weekend has delayed launch preparations for NASA's newest sun-studying spacecraft by 24 hours, pushing the new solar observatory's blastoff to no earlier than Thursday (June 27), space agency officials said.
| Read More » Fowl 'Facebook' Tracks Birds for Science  | The bird known as "UP" and his mate appear to have lost their only surviving chick, although they still have a chance to raise a young one this year. Things are brighter for Oreo and her mate;both are hard at work feeding their brood of three.
| Read More » Scientists find neighbor star with three planets in life-friendly orbits By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A neighbor star has at least six planets in orbit, including three circling at the right distance for water to exist, a condition believed to be necessary for life, scientists said on Tuesday. Previously, the star known as Gliese 667C was found to be hosting three planets, one of which was located in its so-called "habitable zone" where temperatures could support liquid surface water. That planet and two newly found sibling worlds are bigger than Earth, but smaller than Neptune. ... Read More » Bizarre 500-Million-Year-Old Creature Unearthed  | A new fossilized, cigar-shaped creature that lived about 520 million years ago has been unearthed in Morocco.
| Read More » To Cut Out Salt, Use a Knife  | To make food healthier, don't just cut the salt. Instead, try serving it with a knife as well.
| Read More » China's latest manned spacecraft lands safely after mission: Xinhua  | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's latest manned spacecraft landed safely on Wednesday morning after a 15-day mission to an experimental space lab, the country's latest step towards the development of a space station, the official Xinhua news agency said. The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft was launched on June 11 with three astronauts onboard from a remote site in the Gobi desert in China's far west. (Reporting by Lu Jianxin and Fayen Wong; Editing by Michael Perry)
| Read More » Three Chinese Astronauts Land After Record-Breaking Spaceflight  | A Chinese space capsule carrying three astronauts returned safely to Earth Tuesday (June 25), wrapping up the longest manned space mission in the nation's history.
| Read More » Scientists find neighbor star with 3 planets in life-friendly orbits By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A neighbour star has at least six planets in orbit, including three circling at the right distance for water to exist, a condition believed to be necessary for life, scientists said on Tuesday. Previously, the star known as Gliese 667C was found to be hosting three planets, one of which was located in its so-called "habitable zone" where temperatures could support liquid surface water. That planet and two newly found sibling worlds are bigger than Earth, but smaller than Neptune. ... Read More » Rocket Launches Student Experiments, Human Ashes Into Space  | TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — A rocket's roar swamped applause here as an Up Aerospace SpaceLoft suborbital booster shot government, commercial and student science experiments — plus human ashes — to the edge of space.
| Read More » The Reward That Makes Employees Work Harder Businesses looking for a boost in productivity should consider tying employee pay into company performance, new research shows. Read More » Small Fish's Predator Perception Makes a Splash Small fish may have small brains, but they're not stupid. A common coral reef fish called damselfish can learn to avoid predators from more experienced kin, even in complete darkness, new research shows. Read More » Ancient Roman Road Exposed in Jerusalem  | The worn-down flat stones of an ancient Roman road have been unearthed in Jerusalem, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced.
| Read More » Voices: Experts & Analysts Weigh in on Obama's Climate Change Plan  | President Barack Obama announced a sweeping plan to tackle climate change today (June 25), outlining measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote the development of clean energy technologies.
| Read More » Why 'Crazy Ants' Swarm Inside Electronics  | Exterminator Mike Matthews got the call because the home's air-conditioning unit had short-circuited. Why an exterminator for a problem with an appliance? Because of the crazy ants.
| Read More » The Reason Entrepreneurs Have Trouble Finding Jobs Employees who leave regular paying jobs to become self-employed run a high risk of not being able to get another job should their venture fail, new research shows. Read More » Fungal Meningitis Update: Infection Traveled Surprising Route The fungus responsible for the meningitis outbreak of last year travels an unusual route through the human body — moving upward through the spinal fluid to reach the brain, then later invading the blood vessels, according to new research. Read More » Actor Rainn Wilson Talks Asteroid Mining with Planetary Resources  | Actor Rainn Wilson is a little bit worried about what the private asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources might do once it reaches space.
| Read More » Brainwaves Reveal Your Past and Might Predict Your Future  | Scientists have recently discovered that the human brain bears the imprint of earlier events for at least 24 hours after the experience has taken place.
| Read More » Gay-Marriage Rulings: 6 Landmark Cases That Changed US Families The two Supreme Court rulings on same sex marriage Wednesday (June 26) are not the first to radically change life for some families. In today's rulings, the Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) while dismissing the case concerning Proposition 8, effectively opening the doors for same-sex marriages to resume in California. Twelve states and the District of Columbia currently allow same-sex marriage. ... Read More » Jets of Molten Rock Push Earth's Tectonic Plates  | Giant fountains of hot rock under central Africa and the central Pacific that have apparently remained stationary for at least 250 million years are helping drive the movements of the massive tectonic plates making up Earth's surface, researchers say.
| Read More » Can Your Beach Vacation Make You Sick? (Op-Ed)  | Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights
| Read More » Oldest Sequenced Genome Sheds Light on Horse Evolution  | When a horse gallops, there is a moment when all its feet leave the ground — the moment of suspension. Scientists digging for fossils in the permafrost of Canada's Yukon Territory happened across a different moment of suspension: a 700,000-year-old bone of an ancient colt, suspended and frozen in time beneath the ground.
| Read More » What Baseball Pitchers Owe to Ancient Hunters  | Retired baseball pitcher Sandy Koufax is regarded as one of the most talented players to have ever stepped on the mound, but new research suggests he and other baseball greats may owe their strong throwing arms to evolution.
| Read More » Why Some Mountain Ranges Stick Around  | Landslides, or the lack thereof, may help mountain ranges remain far longer than previously thought, new research suggests.
| Read More » Mapping genes of a horse from 700,000 years ago  | HELSINKI (AP) — From a tiny fossil bone found in the frozen Yukon, scientists have deciphered the genetic code of an ancient horse about 700,000 years old — nearly 10 times older than any other animal that has had its genome mapped.
| Read More » Ancient Elephants Grazed Before They Had Teeth for It  | Ancient elephants switched from eating primarily leaves and shrubs to feeding on grass several million years before their teeth were fully adapted for grazing, according to a new study.
| Read More » 'Reverse Vaccine' May Fight Type 1 Diabetes A "reverse vaccine" is showing promise in protecting the insulin-producing cells in people with Type I diabetes, researchers said after an early clinical trial. Read More » | 
