Italian police have discovered a huge stash of archaeological artefacts that a pensioner had dug up to create his own private - and illegal - museum, they said yesterday.
We call the men and women on the following pages heroes, but they could just as easily be called speakers for the planet, a planet that is hanging, as one of them put it years ago, in the balance.
's preparations to launch its first lunar orbiter are on schedule for lift-off later this week, a Chinese official said on Monday, as the country steps up efforts in a new international race for the moon.
A short stint on a vibrating platform might slow the development of fat cells in mice by nearly 20%, according to controversial new research. Scientists say the experimental treatment seemed to stop the mice putting on weight from fat over the course of a four-month trial. But some experts voice concerns over the design of the experiment and are sceptical about its results.
In a landmark test flight, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a team of research partners this month successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of 120,000 feet, borne by a balloon.
U.S. engineers have created a quantum cascade laser nanoantenna for producing ultrahigh-resolution microscopes for chemical imaging in biology and medicine.
You may recall that Michael Bay was pretty upset when Paramount announced that going forward they would only support HD-DVD ... so upset that initially he said he was going to drop out of Transformers 2. He quickly reversed his decision, though, and despite any misgivings he might have had over HD-DVD, Transformers is setting records.
A new global study revealed that 40 percent of men and 30 percent of women are overweight, while 24 percent of men and 27 percent of women are obese, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
