Gulf Coast residents were alerted today -- jelly in the grass. Not only in the grass but also in the swimming pools! A man's net scooping out quarter-size buttons left an indelible impression in my…

Get ready for the world's first atomic microscope. A team of physicists from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and the Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA-Nanociencia)…

There's a sex bias in evolution, according to an article in PLoS Genetics, and it's demonstrated by the fact that women have been more successful on average in passing their genes on to the next…

Plenty of sun and some ice for water sounds like a lovely place for a moon base, doesn't it? Three-dimensional views of the mountainous terrain surrounding a “peak of eternal light” near the Moon’s…

KAKAMEGA, Kenya, September 26 /PRNewswire/ -- - Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing Campaign Provides Affordable and Efficient Approach to Preventing Disease Identified An important new approach to…

I'm obsessed with the apocalypse. No joke. I always carry a mini-emergency kit stuffed in an Altoids tin, and I know that if the apocalypse comes, my husband and I are supposed to meet at our…

Climate change, stem cells, drug research and regulation, nuclear proliferation, biological terrorism agents, alternative energy technology, nanotechnology, personalized genetics, new computing…

NEW YORK, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - At UN Summit, Gates Heralds New Progress in Malaria Control and R&D Bill Gates announced today that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide…

BOGOTA, Columbia, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Acknowledged for Outstanding Flower Quality and Socio-Environmental Practices Florverde(R) flower farms, practices and flowers, continue to be…

World leaders gathered today at the 2008 Millennium Development Goals Malaria Summit to endorse an ambitious new Global Malaria Action Plan and commit US $3 billion toward reducing the number of…