Alfred Nobel created the peace prize more than a century ago, but it is the Norwegian Nobel Committee that decides who gets it.

  Biologists, smarting from research showing that they may have been protecting the wrong fish for decades, are regrouping in their efforts to restore a rare type of trout to Colorado waters.

  The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Al Gore and to a United Nations panel for their work on global warming.

  Gerhard Ertl?s work in surface chemistry has applications across an array of fields, including the environment.

  Astronomers are planning to switch on the first elements of a giant new array of radio telescopes that will greatly extend the investigation of natural and unnatural phenomena in the universe.

  Fifteen Nobel Prize laureates assembled in Potsdam, Germany, for a momentous task: saving the world from global warming.

  A new crew bound for the International Space Station, including Malaysia?s first astronaut and the first woman assigned to command the station, blasted off Wednesday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

  Greater cultivation of crops to produce ethanol could harm water quality and leave some regions of the country with water shortages, a panel of experts is reporting.

  Two physicists who discovered how to manipulate the magnetic and electrical properties of thin layers of atoms to store vast amounts of data on tiny disks were named winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

  The NASA spacecraft on the way to Pluto has discovered lightning in the polar regions of Jupiter, scientists said Tuesday.

  Seattle now recycles 44 percent of its trash, compared with the national average of around 30 percent, which makes it a major player in big city waste recovery.

  Two Americans and a Briton won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine for their work in gene targeting.

  The so-called sterile clean rooms where NASA assembles its spacecraft and prepares them for launching houses an interesting array of bacteria.

  Researchers have discovered a plant for which pollination is only partly about smelling nice.