The Evogrid is a proposed computerized version of the primordial soup. Digitally simulating virtual particles could help answer the question of how life originated on Earth, and perhaps even spread li

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the data archive center for NASA s Kepler mission, and has now received the first raw science data from Kepler. Now, the data can be analyzed and used

NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez, set to fly aboard space shuttle Discovery in August, is providing insights about his training on Twitter in both English and Spanish. It will be the agency's first bilingual Twitter.

News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., have been updated for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour.

With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23.

El astronauta de NASA Jos? Hern?ndez, quien volar? a bordo del Transbordador Espacial Discovery en Agosto, nos permitir? ver los detalles de su entrenamiento por medio de un "Twitter" en Ingles y en Espa?ol

Vegans have lower bone densities than non-vegans, say Australian researchers.

More than one in seven adolescents believe they will not live beyond 35, according to a US study.

Palaeontologists have unveiled three new Australian dinosaur skeletons in Queensland today.

Scientists are working on a new generation of kinder, gentler pyrotechnics that produce less smoke and use fewer toxic metals.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Calls for scientists to do a better job at framing research for public consumption threaten to turn scientists into "spin" merchants, says one expert.

InfoMax and FastICA are the independent component analysis algorithms most used and apparently most effective for brain fMRI. We show...

Starting from the basis of a simple 4-component self-sorting system of crown ethers and ammonium ions, we design 6 building...

Self-assembled capsules are nanoscale structures made up of multiple synthetic subunits held together by weak intermolecular forces. They act as...

Three polarized aromatic guest molecules (pyrene-4,5-dione, 1) form a triple-layered stack in the box-shaped cavity of an organic pillared coordination...

Four papers in the journal Science this week offer new details about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission that was operated from The University of Arizona. Peter H. Smith, a scientist with

Favorable chemistry and episodes with thin films of liquid water during ongoing, long-term climate cycles may sometimes make the area where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed last year a favorable environment for microbes. Interpretations of data that Phoenix returned during

Reuters that Indian author Vikram Seth is writing a sequel to his novel, . A Suitable Boy sold over a million copies. Seth calls the upcoming novel a "jump sequel" because young Lata, the central character in A Suitable Boy,