Aug 26 2010
Katrina: the View From Space
Five years later, NASA gives us a view of the fateful storm like no one else can.
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Aug 07 2010
Tiny Frogs Reveal Big Secrets of Plate Tectonics
Geologists disagree over when exactly the Himalayas rose up from the collision of India and Eurasia. The answer, it turns out, may lie in frog genes.
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Aug 06 2010
A Grim Future for Tropical Forests
Increasing land use and global warming will deal a devastating one-two punch to tropical forests by the end of the century. In some areas, plant and animal diversity will plummet by the year 2100.
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Aug 06 2010
Satellites Use Ripples in Space to Detect Tsunamis
Tsunamis produce "gravity waves" that GPS satellites can detect. Space-based monitoring could be a powerful new tool for issuing tsunami warnings.
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Aug 03 2010
Can Venom Save Lives?
Tarantula, scorpion, ant, and other animals' venom contains compounds that can treat a range of severe diseases.
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Jul 27 2010
A Half Century of MADness
A video by a Japanese artist captures the entire history of nuclear explosions on Earth.
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Jun 22 2010
Busted Bedrock Paved Way For Texan Megaflood
In 2002 a violent flood carved a canyon in the Texas landscape in only 3 days. Scientists studying the gash are learning how catastrophic floods carved up landscapes on Earth and Mars in the past.
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Jun 11 2010
The Enduring World of Jacques Cousteau
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, a tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
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May 27 2010
‘Ardi’ Questioned as Human Ancestor
Some scientists are raising doubts over whether the fossil skeleton named "Ardi" actually belongs to the human branch of evolution.
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May 25 2010
New Crater May Have Helped Create Antarctic Ice Sheet
A giant impact dome was discovered under the Timor Sea. This is one of many impacts that pummeled the planet around 35 million years ago, possibly cooling it enough to spur the formation of ice sheets on Antarctica.
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