Fifty years after President Kennedy’s call to put a man on the moon, the space agency is at a crossroads.
NASA must look beyond the earthly demands of deficit cutting and politics to chart its course.
At least five Earth-sized planets appear to be orbiting their stars at just the right distance to host water.
Mountaintop removal mining is just one facet of a debate that is gearing up to be as heated as health care reform, as lawmakers consider climate-inspired legislation that would fundamentally redefine the nation’s relationship with coal.
“The coal industry is under attack and West Virginia is ground zero for that attack,” an industry representative says.
A motorcycle taxi driver named Eagle introduced me to Cambodia when I visited Phnom Penh ten years ago. I went back and found him six years later.
The Beaufort Sea’s coastline is disintegrating at alarming speed.
Permafrost cliffs are tumbling into the ocean and melting away, and now the process is caught on a new video of time-lapse photographs.
“It could be related to some of the changes that are happening and that have been reported in the Arctic, like declining sea ice in the summer and increasing sea temperatures,” says a scientist studying the coast.
The 150-pound Raptorex “was running things down, dispatching them with its powerful jaws, and clutching them with its two-fingered hands”—the same hunting strategy that apparently worked for 6-ton T. rex.
Dick Cheney and others oppose a decision to review interrogations that may have overstepped even more lenient legal guidance of Bush-administration lawyers.
The already unwieldy debate over US healthcare reform grew stranger and darker this week, drawing in British physicist Stephen Hawking, “death panels”, guns and Nazi Germany.
A pre-eminent black Harvard University professor and the white police sergeant who arrested him for disorderly conduct in his own home sat down last night for a beer with Barack Obama, the US president, to discuss the incident that has sparked intense debates on race relations.
As the recession forces Americans to put off purchases, from shoes to electronics they are also asking more from what they already own.
