Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed first-round testing of a critical motor for NASA's new Ares I rocket.

Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, Sept. 18, in preparation for shuttle Atlantis' mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hurricane Ike has delayed the scheduled Friday arrival of a Russian Progress cargo ship at the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth.

Students will chat with NASA's Expedition 17 astronauts aboard the International Space Station from 11:15 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. PDT at the Jim Bridger Middle School.

NASA's Johnson Space Center will close at noon CDT Thursday and remain closed until the threat of Hurricane Ike has passed.

Revised entry by Bruce Reichenbach on September 11, 2008. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] The cosmological argument is less a particular argument than an argument type. It uses a general pattern of argumentation (logos) that makes an inference from

Revised entry by Jeffrey Barrett on September 11, 2008. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, img1.jpg, img2.jpg, img3.jpg, img4.jpg, img5.jpg, img6.jpg, img7.jpg, img8.jpg, img9.jpg] Hugh Everett III's relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics is an attempt to solve the quantum measurement problem

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has twice changed the leadership of the troubled D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, recently installing a fellow Howard Law School graduate as chairman over objections from a D.C. Council member and community activists.

There's no putting lipstick on this pig. Ron Paul, the libertarian gadfly who launched a mass movement in his failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination, convened a third-party unity event at the National Press Club yesterday to bring Bob

A new John McCain ad caricatures Barack Obama's education record by claiming that his only achievement is to pass legislation ensuring "comprehensive sex education" for kindergartners. It implies that its critique of the Democratic presidential nominee has been endorsed by

Well, that didn't take long: Sarah Palin is now a big-time topic in down-ballot races.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) acknowledged yesterday that he had not lived up to the "higher standard" expected of members of Congress, but he maintained that he should not be punished politically for failing to disclose and pay taxes on

A team of food science students took first place in the Product Development Competition held in Idaho last month.

This summer PRC Technologies introduced a new brand, SoyPrint, the first soybean-based toner for laser printer cartridges.

Many BYU students are finding the time to participate in the Safety Net Mentor Program, which works to curb youth crime rates and keep kids out of detention facilities by matching up at-risk youth with adult mentors who can be

The Students Consulting on Teaching (SCOT) program hires and trains students to help professors evaluate their teaching methods.

THE Government has been urged to increase funding for scientific research in order to create wealth.

A new research grant program that will award $1.5 million annually to fight chronic diseases in developing nations has been launched by the Fogarty International Center of the United States' National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Once again, the country is confronted with a major famine. Estimates by Unicef indicate that up to 1.3 million people face starvation.

Yeston Science 12 September 2008: 1419a DOI: 10.1126/science.321.5895.1419a