MOSCOW – A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, ending the astronauts’ nearly six months aboard the International Space Station. The capsule carried Russians Alexander Samokutayev and Elena Serova and NASA’s Barry Wilmore, who blasted off for the space station on Sept. 26. …
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We’re ready for your close-up, Mr. Rex. The Jurassic is merely the stage in a new TV series from the Discovery Channel. In “Dinosaur Revolution,” which premiers Sunday night at 9 p.m. EST, dinosaurs are characters with personalities that “act out” brief or even hour-long vignettes — and it’s all …
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WASHINGTON — On May 10, Japanese scientist Kokichi Sugihara claimed to have discovered a technology that every sixth grader knows to be impossible: a magnet that attracts wood. In front of a crowd of hundreds, he played a video showing four wooden balls rolling up four ramps, supposedly pulled uphill …
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God or the Big Bang? Why not both? Things aren’t all black and white in the Vatican, it seems. Pope Benedict XVI made headlines last week during a sermon that made a case for the similarity of science and religion, two disciplines on quest for the truth. Christopher T. Baglow, …
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Believe it or not, nobody knows for sure the true height of the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest. It was generally thought to be 29,028 feet high after it was measured by an Indian survey in 1954. But China says the world’s highest mountain (which it calls Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) is …
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Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks – plains of streaked gray stone on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Quebec. But researchers disagree on exactly how …
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