Science Stories

WELLFLEET, Mass. – There’s no good spot on Cape Cod for dolphins to beach themselves, but on this cold, gray day a group of 11 has chosen one of the worst. The remote inlet down Wellfleet’s Herring River is a … Continue reading →

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station are taking a spacewalk. Russians Oleg Kononenko (Koh-no-NEHN-koh) and Anton Shkaplerov (SHKAP-luh-roff) floated out Thursday, after being held up at the hatch by a balky ring. They will relocate … Continue reading →

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight. John Glenn. Even astronauts — not just the rest of us mere mortals — get mushy talking about Project Mercury’s … Continue reading →

WELLFLEET, Mass – There’s no good spot on Cape Cod for dolphins to continue this winter’s massive and unexplained beachings, but a group of 11 has chosen one of the worst. The remote inlet down Wellfleet’s Herring River is a … Continue reading →

BERLIN – German scientists have developed a new way to make a key malaria drug that they say could easily quadruple production and drop the price significantly, increasing the availability of treatment for a disease that kills hundreds of thousands … Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO – The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old. A team of doctors at … Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO – The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old. A team of doctors at … Continue reading →

MOJAVE, Calif. – A privately built rocket has made its first free-flight in the California desert as part of a NASA program exploring vertical landing systems for solar system exploration. The autonomous flight occurred earlier this month at the Mojave … Continue reading →

JERUSALEM – He’s considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time. But Sir Isaac Newton was also an influential theologian who applied a scientific approach to the study of scripture, Hebrew and Jewish mysticism. Now Israel’s national … Continue reading →

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Astronauts and robots have united in space with a healthy handshake. The commander of the International Space Station, Daniel Burbank, shook hands Wednesday with Robonaut. It’s the first handshake ever between a human and a humanoid … Continue reading →