Topic: Science & Technology

Through the miracle of the Internet, you can now watch in on an ongoing Egyptian excavation. As Walter Cronkite once said, "You are there."

Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team are again sharing their work with the world through an online diary, a digital window into the day-to-day life on an archaeological expedition.

A new species of dinosaur found in Mexico is giving scientists some clues about what life was like when reptiles ruled the earth.

A new species of dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is giving scientists fresh insights into the ancient history of western North America, according to an international research team led by scientists from the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah.

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Artist's rendering of what Velafrons coahuilensis, the new duck-billed dinosaur from
Mexico, would have looked like.

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a strategy to capture, store and eventually recycle carbon from vehicles. Georgia Tech researchers envision a zero emission car, and a transportation system completely free of fossil fuels.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a strategy to capture, store and eventually recycle carbon from vehicles to prevent the pollutant from finding its way from a car tailpipe into the atmosphere. Georgia Tech researchers envision a zero emission car, and a transportation system completely free of fossil fuels.

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An illustration explaining Georgia Tech's plan for a sustainablecarbon economy for vehicles and other small engines.

Maybe, just maybe, there's a iota of good news on the global warming front. Some scientists think there may be a natural thermostat the keep already warm ocean waters from getting even warmer. Unfortunately, this is only a maybe. Even the scientists aren't sure.

Natural processes may prevent oceans from warming beyond a certain point, helping protect some coral reefs from the impacts of climate change, new research finds. The study, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), finds evidence that an ocean "thermostat" appears to be helping to regulate sea-surface temperatures in a biologically diverse region of the western Pacific.

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The Western Pacific Warm Pool, which lies northeast of Australia, contains some of the warmest ocean waters in the world. Water temperatures in the warm pool have risen less than elsewhere in the tropics, which may explain why reefs there have experienced less coral bleaching.

Climate mechanism could explain 1940s crash that led to demise of Cannery Row on the Monterey Peninsula.

The mid-20th century crash of the sardine fishery off California for decades has vexed marine ecologists searching for the root causes of large fluctuations in the sardine population. Before its collapse, the fishery was one of the world’s most productive and formed the setting of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row in Monterey, Calif.

A new book by prize-winning scientist James Trefil makes the case for scientific literacy in today's society.

In the midst of presidential primary session, it seems the list of topics in which we want our nation's next president to be well-versed is endless - the economy, the Iraq War, global warming, the price of oil, health care, the war in Afghanistan, science… Why science?

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A new book describes radio-based weapons and defense systems that are totally wireless.

Last week, according to a preliminary accident report, the engines on a British Airways plane that crash-landed at London's Heathrow airport failed to respond for a demand to increase thrust about two miles before it reached the runway. The British Airways Boeing 777 made a crunching touchdown short of the runway on Thursday, ripping off the plane's landing gear and severely damaging the two engines and wings. Nineteen injuries were reported among the 152 people aboard.

A brain imaging study conducted by researchers from Stony Brook University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University seem to suggest that cultural influences determine how we use our brains.

People from East Asian cultures use their brains differently than people from American culture when solving the same mental task based on simple visual perception. This finding is based on the results of a brain imaging study by researchers from Stony Brook University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University. The finding shows for the first time that the culture one is raised in and the extent to which one identifies with that culture influences brain activity patterns. The study appeared in the January issue of Psychological Science in a research report titled “Cultural Influences on Neural Substrates of Attentional Control.”

Aging dams, abandoned roads, even unused offshore oil platforms, may hold keys to improving our environment.

Thousands of obsolete dams and thousands of miles of abandoned roads in America’s aging and crumbling infrastructure could still be valuable – to the environment, according to a policy forum paper in this week’s Science by Martin Doyle of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues.

NASA has released a book of space readers with a twist. The 60-page book, with color images of nebulae, stars, galaxies and some of the telescopes that captured the original pictures, is aimed at blind readers.

At a Tuesday ceremony at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.

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Touch the Invisible Sky is a 60-page book with color images of nebulae, stars, galaxies and some of the telescopes that captured the original pictures. Each image is embossed with lines, bumps, and other textures. The raised patterns translate colors, shapes, and other intricate details of the cosmic objects, allowing visually impaired people to experience them. Braille and large-print descriptions accompany each of the book's 28 photographs, making the book's design accessible to readers of all visual abilities.