Scientists in raptures over flightless Fred
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The remains of a dodo found in a cave beneath bamboo and tea plantations in Mauritius offer the best chance yet to learn about the extinct flightless bird, a scientist said on Friday.
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Scientists have grown a "brain" in a petri dish that can fly a simulated F-22 fighter airplane. It's all part of a quest to build "living" computers.
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Some physicists are creating a revolution in the arcane world of ultra-precise clocks. And among them is a researcher who has trouble getting anywhere on time.
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German scientists plan to help endangered geese find a safer passage for their winter migration south from Finland and Sweden by making them believe that a light aircraft, which will lead the way, is their ...
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The renowned physicist has always had a hankering for space travel. He'll start with a brief zero-gravity flight in April. By the Associated Press.
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Some experts think that the hunt for extraterrestrial life should be greatly expanded to include something they call âweird life.â
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(Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any opinions in the column are his alone.)
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Imagine the weight of a nagging suspicion that what held your world together, a constant and consistent presence you had come to understand and rely on, wasn't what it seemed. That's how scientists feel when they ponder gravity these days.
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For physicists, this is a summer of rumors, hope and hype as rival collaborations race to capture the legendary particle known as the Higgs boson.
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It is one of the world&#39;s oldest questions: Why did the chicken cross the road? It might seem like a &#39;poultry&#39; subject to weigh on the minds of hundreds of scientists, but research published yesterday has brought us a little closer to the answer.
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There are those few uninformed that spread ill will about commercial aviation. As is the case in just about anything, people who have no understanding of something love to pick it apart. I'm sure we all know someone who refuses to fly. Their reasons most likely include "I just don't feel safe on those things." The fact is, really, that airline travel is exceedingly safe, and becoming ever safer. I will try to explain exactly why this is. I'd also like to introduce general aviation, and relate what I know about the future of air travel. It is a sad fact that the general public knows very little about aviation, and yet has so much to say about it.
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The latest tracking research from UK scientists may prove vital in protecting the endangered albatross.
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Stunned British and American scientists watched a seven-year dream fall to Earth yesterday at 150mph, potentially smashing the fruits of a $250m mission.
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Scientists have cast doubt on the theory that there is probably a single cause for the word disorder dyslexia.
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Famed physicist Stephen Hawking is going to experience weightlessness on a space tourism flight taking off from Kennedy Space Center.
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ONE of the seven great unsolved mysteries of mathematics may have been solved by an eccentric Russian. Grigori &#39;Grisha&#39; Perelman is an expert on Ricci flow.
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I once thought that worrying about what we should broadcast to extraterrestrials made as much sense as fretting over the small talk I'd venture with King Carl XVI Gustaf if I won the Nobel Prize. I reckoned there was no need to dwell on the problem, as it was both hypothetical and irrelevant.