 Largest Volcano on Earth Lurks Beneath Pacific Ocean  | The world's largest volcano lurks beneath the Pacific Ocean, researchers announced today (Sept. 5) in the journal Nature Geoscience.
| Read More » Air Force, DARPA Team Up on New Hypersonic Flight Project  | The U.S. Air Force is teaming up with the military's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) on a new project to test the capabilities of hypersonic flight, according to military officials.
| Read More » Fallout from Strike on Syrian Reactor 'Could be Catastrophic'  | In the event of a military strike against Syria, there's a chance that a missile could hit a Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) outside the capital city of Damascus, Russia has warned.
| Read More » Lackluster Hurricane Season Could Still Rev Up  | Tropical Storm Gabrielle formed this morning (Sept. 5), but has already been downgraded to a tropical depression after a combination of data showed it had become disorganized and unable to sustain tropical storm-force winds. And it's expected to weaken further and sputter out, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports.
| Read More » California Tsunami Would Have Costly Aftermath  | The fearsome aftermath of a tsunami striking California might cost at least $3.4 billion to repair, but neither of the state's nuclear power plants would be damaged, suggests a new analysis that could help officials and the public prepare for a tsunami and reduce risks before any such disasters happen.
| Read More » For NASA Spacecraft Launching Friday, It's 'Destination: Moon'  | WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — NASA's newest space probe has its eye on the moon, and the weather couldn't look finer for the planned Friday night launch. In a twist, NASA is launching this new moon shot from Virginia to investigate a long-standing mystery behind lunar dust.
| Read More » Russian Cosmonaut Resigns Space Station Command for 'Better Job'  | A veteran Russian cosmonaut who was assigned to command the International Space Station in 2015 has unexpectedly resigned.
| Read More » Orbital Sciences Names 1st Space Station Cargo Ship After Astronaut  | When a first-of-its-kind commercial cargo spacecraft launches toward the International Space Station later this month, it will fly under the name of the astronaut who helped make the historic mission possible.
| Read More » NASA Launch Shoots for the Moon from Virginia Tonight: Watch It Online  | NASA will launch a new spacecraft tonight (Sept. 6) to unlock the mysteries of moon dust and the wispy lunar atmosphere, and you can watch the blastoff live online.
| Read More » Surprising Ally For Snow Leopards: Buddhist Monks  | The endangered snow leopard has some allies in unexpected places.
| Read More » Generous to a Fault: Stroke Changes Man in Odd Way A 49-year-old man in Brazil survived a stroke but underwent a strange personality change afterward -- he developed "pathological generosity," according to a report of his case. Read More » Film Shows One Man's Battle with Lou Gehrig's Disease  | Over the course of a year, Neil Platt went from being a healthy 33-year-old husband and father, to a man paralyzed by a rare, fatal disease. In a film about the final months of his life, Platt provides a heartbreaking, at times amusing, and startlingly honest view of what it means to be alive.
| Read More » Teen Birth Rate Reached New Historic Low in 2012 The U.S. teen birth rate fell again in 2012, reaching a new historic low, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read More » What's in Urine? 3,000 Chemicals and Counting Looking for an encyclopedia of pee? Scientists have laid out the entire chemical composition of human urine, revealing that more than 3,000 compounds are found in the fluid, and have published it all in an online database. Read More » West Antarctic Ice Sheet's Age Gains 20 Million Years  | The West Antarctic Ice Sheet could have formed 20 million years earlier than previously thought, researchers propose, after updating a detail in global climate models, placing more confidence in those models' ability to predict future changes in global climate.
| Read More » 5 Bright Planets Align, But Sun Spoils the Show  | People are often curious about "alignments" of planets and right now there is quite a bit of a planetary alignment going on. But you won't be able to see it because the celestial meet-up occurs during the daytime, with the sun spoiling the show.
| Read More » Secret 'Slave' Tunnels Discovered Under Roman Emperor's Villa  | Amateur archaeologists have uncovered a massive network of tunnels under the Roman Emperor Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy.
| Read More » Saving Historic Watts Towers from Mystery Cracks  | The Watts Towers are a labor of love, graceful spires built by hand over 30 years in the Los Angeles-area backyard of sculptor and construction worker Simon Rodia.
| Read More » Pew! Pew! Pew! NASA Moon Probe Carries Space Laser for Big Tech Test  | A NASA probe launching toward the moon tonight (Sept. 6) is carrying a high-tech laser experiment designed to improve deep-space communications.
| Read More » Dallas Zoo to raise cheetah cubs with a Labrador puppy (Reuters) - The Dallas Zoo will raise a pair of cheetah cubs with a Labrador retriever puppy, believing the dog will be a calming influence on the big cats as they grow to adulthood. The 8-week-old male cheetahs Winspear and Kamau have arrived in Dallas, the zoo said, after a team of experts spent two weeks with them at their birthplace, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va. They will be raised alongside an 8-week-old black Labrador retriever puppy named Amani, the zoo said in a statement on Thursday. ... Read More » Arsenic in Rice Not a Risk Over Short Term, FDA Finds Levels of arsenic in rice appear to be too low to pose health risks over the short term, the Food and Drug Administration said today (Sept. 6). Read More » | 
