Science & Tech

A major asteroid passed by the Earth this week, and another is heading this way.

Genetic material identifies children lost during El Salvador’s civil war.

Company to Sponsor Open Source Project for Open XML-ODF File Translation to Deliver More Choice for Government Customers and Their Constituents

A panel of scientists says evidence of global warming is clear. They say the last few decades have been warmer than any comparable period in the past several hundred years. Scientists believe the warming trend is also to blame for the harsh hurricane season in the North Atlantic last year.

NASA scientist Peter Wasilewski's studies of ice using polarized light create beautiful colored pictures of the snow and ice, and enable people to see if the snow and ice is "right" for each type of sport.

This will force users who upgrade their motherboard, even via the OEM, to purchase a new license agreement.

Astronomer Margaret Turnbull has devoted herself to the painstaking search for candidate stars that may harbor zones of habitability where life might thrive. Shel announced her shortlist of "habstars" at the 2006 AAAS Annual Meeting.

Several states are pursuing more aggressive policies than the federal government to reduce oil consumption. Renewable Fuel Standards (RFSs) require a minimum share of homegrown vehicle fuels such as ethanol.

Children on a field trip in New Zealand have discovered what may be the finest giant penguin fossil yet found. These early penguins stood 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall, weighing over 100 kilograms (220 pounds), and lived some 40 million years ago.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has identified two huge "hypergiant" stars circled by monstrous disks of what might be planet-forming dust.

Loud music prolongs the effects of taking ecstasy for up to five days. A study published today in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience shows that the reduction in rats' brain activity induced by 3,4 ecstasy lasts long after administration of the drug – up to five days – if loud music is played to them simultaneously.

Lovers and public health officials want an answer to the following question: How many opposite-sex partners have you had in your lifetime? Are men lying to inflate their sexual reputations? Are women lying to downplay their sexual experience?

A group of scientists in France hope to shed light on a centuries-old mystery: Whether fragments of skin and bone may belong to 15th-century French heroine Joan of Arc.

The ridiculous assumptions and manipulations, surveys and biases are concisely described with great mastery in this article. Junk science and assumptions of this kind are at the basis of the anti-tobacco "epidemic" -- and all the billions of dollars of public money pocketed by the anti-tobacco cartel while persecuting tobacco and its users.

Despite Bill Joy’s worries about humanity’s use of technology, modern movies and books show that humans are aware of the increasing role of technology in our lives but we would do well to pay better attention.