October 21, 2015 1st satellite built by high school students blasts into space The first satellite designed and built by high school students blast edinto space along with a so-called "PhoneSat" built by NASA on Tuesday night.
October 21, 2015 Swiss scientists say Arafat was poisoned with polonium Scientists at Switzerland's Institute of Radiation Physics said Thursday they've found evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was deliberately poisoned with polonium though they don't know if it ultimately killed him.
October 21, 2015 'Scientific American' draws heat over ‘urban whore’ blog post A brouhaha blew up on the blogosphere after the editor in chief of leading science publication Scientific American removed a shocking entry from one biologist-blogger.
October 21, 2015 What's missing from the Nobel Prizes? Scientists weigh in The Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the Nobel prizes more than 100 years ago, in 1895, with the following prize categories: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and peace.
October 21, 2015 Junior genius: Winners of the 2013 Google Science Fair The winners of the 2013 Google Science Awards have some incredible ideas for how to improve the world around us. And these you geniuses have room to grow: The contest is for students age 13-18.
October 21, 2015 Lawsuit filed in Kansas to block climate change, evolution curriculum An anti-evolution group filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to block Kansas from using new, multistate science standards in its public schools, arguing the guidelines promote atheism and violate students' and parents' religious freedom.
October 21, 2015 2013 'Golden Goose' awards honor strange science Politicians have their pick of strange-sounding studies when they want to call for cuts to science spending
October 21, 2015 World's oldest human tumor found in Neanderthal bone The oldest human tumor ever found by more than 100,000 years has been discovered in the rib of a Neanderthal.
October 21, 2015 Glow-in-the-dark cockroach among top 10 new species A glowing cockroach, a monkey with a blue behind and a meat-eating sponge snagged spots on a list of top 10 new species named in 2012, scientists announced Thursday.
October 21, 2015 Speed of light may not be constant, physicists say The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say.
