Physicists who study the most basic building blocks of the universe have just said goodbye to a beloved giant in their field.Not a fellow scientist. But rather, a machine.
Little kids love dinosaurs, bugs and exploring the woods. Science doesn't scare them; they find it fun — until 9th grade. That's when most of us take our first biology class and everything changes.
A physicist named Dmitri Denisov walks up wooden steps to the top of something that looks sort of like an abandoned railroad bed."Wow, look, it's beautiful," Denisov says, gazing out at a pond. "I didn't even know about these flowers."
The Tibetan Plateau is the world's highest place. It's four times the size of France and home to most of the world's highest mountains.As you might expect, it's cold there.
Dozens of environmental activists showed up in front of the White House Thursday to get arrested in a peaceful protest against a proposed oil pipeline that would cut across the American Midwest.Organizers said that over the past 10 days, about 800 people have been handcuffed and bused off to a polic
The birth of star is just as traumatic as the birth of a person, only on a much larger scale.For years, astronomers have known that newly formed stars fire powerful beams of gas into space called "protostellar jets."
Steve Jobs stepped down this week as CEO of Apple after running the company for nearly 25 years.The very first Macintosh computer, the iPod audio player and most recently the iPad are just a few of the products Jobs has created that have changed the way millions of people live their lives.As one of
