Survival expert Bernstein wild for Discovery
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Discovery Communications  has hired explorer, author and wilderness educator Josh  Bernstein to host and produce specials and series exclusively  for Discovery Channel.
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LOS ANGELES: Academy Award-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who penned scores for blockbusters ranging from To Kill a Mockingbird and The Magnificent Seven to Ghostbusters has died at the age of 82.
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Proof how quickly time flies is the upcoming 20 year celebration of Discovery Channel&#39;s Shark Week. The annual event, hosted by Survivorman&#39;s Les Stroud, will fill Discovery Channel&#39;s total day schedule from Sunday, July 29 through Saturday, August 4 from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m. ET. Over 130 hours of shark related programs (including eight all-new prime time specials at 9 p.m.) will populate the schedule.
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Neural networking pioneer Stephen Thaler is adapting his Creativity Machine theories to power self-organizing swarms of cockroach-size robots for the military. Is an artificial intelligence breakthrough on the horizon? By David Hambling.
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A survival guide for Boomers disrupted by death, divorce or financial difficulty.
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Pen Hadow, who's preparing for a months-long trek across the Arctic, speaks on climate change, how technology has changed the life of an explorer, and the dangers of swimming with bears.
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An international team of scientists has found life on a Norwegian island.  No surprises there, but the successful field test of a collection of life-detection instruments may be a stepping stone for future endeavors to sniff out life on Mars.
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Science & environment: Project will give unprecedented insight into why some people are more susceptible to disease than others
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Legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein, who created the sprawling big-sky theme for &#39;The Magnificent Seven,&#39; and childlike notes for &#39;To Kill a Mockingbird,&#39; died Wednesday in his Ojai, CA home. He was 82.
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Alan Alda almost died in 2003. He was in a remote area of Chile, doing an episode of "Scientific American Frontiers," and he developed an intestinal obstruction that came within hours of killing him. It was his good fortune that he survived the whole ordeal.
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The work of Prof. Naomi Ehrich Leonard at Princeton University shatters barriers, interweaving control theory, fluid mechanics, robotics, and biology.
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.
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Studying the zebra fish spinal cord, grooming habits of the Barbary macaque and the regional impact of dams.
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A rapid technique for isolating DNA in hair provides a new route to study the genetics of extinct creatures.
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Alex Gough has a curious job. He's the only programmer for 500 miles at a remote Antarctic research station. His problems are like your problems too, though--gathering, manipulating, recording, and displaying data. Here's how he uses several CPAN modules to make pretty charts and graphs with almost no work.
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Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, famous for scores including The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, died on Wednesday at the age of 82.
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A physicist by trade, Robert J. Lang also has a quite unique claim to fame as one of the worldâs foremost origami artists. In fact, he has a Pteranodon with a 14-foot wing span at permanent display at the Redpath Museum of Natural History and a long list of commissions and commercial projects waiting in the wings. And he uses his MacBook Pro, two software programs he authored, and Wolframâs Mathematica to help him conceptualize and map out each new creation.