While the human brain may be the ultimate complex system, other examples appear everywhere. Take army ants. Despite their name, they have no general, and their queen sends out no instructions. No(...)
Astronauts completed their longest spacewalk yet to repair a space station gear on Saturday.(...)
Richardson said it's in the interest of our national space industry that commercial space could properly develop.(...)
Stern: "The Mars program is slowly committing suicide in front of our very eyes"NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been beset by technical challenges and inevitable budget ov(...)
The educational experiment currently being carried out on the space station has just returned a surprise result. It would appear the two web-weaving spiders being studied have turned their fortun(...)
The prospect of encountering polar bears, cracking ice and frostbite doesn't horrify Arctic explorer Eric Larsen.(...)
International Space Station astronauts try to resolve the latest of a series of glitches that have plagued their mission.
"Waterproof" versions of popular varieties of rice, which can withstand two weeks of complete submergence, have passed tests in farmers' fields with flying colors. Several of these varieties are (...)
The American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America have released a joint statement on the importance of adult vaccination against an increasing number of vaccine-pr(...)
Multiple high-definition videos and other data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships and planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems developed by European res(...)