October 20, 2015 Is this 158-year-old redwood the UK's oldest living Christmas tree? A cultural agency in the United Kingdom says it has discovered the oldest living Christmas tree in all of Britain.
October 20, 2015 Nobel Prize medal fetches record-breaking $4.76M James Watson, one of the scientists credited with discovering the structure of DNA, recently made history when he became the first-ever living Nobel laureate to put his prize medal up for auction.
October 20, 2015 'Interstellar' science: Is wormhole travel possible? Sci-fi fans who hope humanity can one day zoom to distant corners of the universe via wormholes, as astronauts do in the recent film "Interstellar," shouldn't hold their breath.
October 20, 2015 Revamped Large Hadron Collider set to restart The Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, is scheduled to be restarted early next year after an ambitious two-year upgrade project that will nearly double its power.
October 20, 2015 Physicist was initially paid just $200 for his Nobel-winning invention Shuji Nakamura's world got a little bit brighter yesterday morning when he found out he'd won the Nobel Prize in physics, along with Japan's Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano.
October 20, 2015 Stanford professor 1st woman to win top math prize An Iranian-born Stanford University professor is the first woman to win math's highest honor, the Fields Medal.
October 20, 2015 Glow-in-the-dark plants go on sale Glowing trees will take awhile to make, but you can already preorder seeds of a glow-in-the-dark Arabidopsis, a little flowering plant of a mustard family.
October 20, 2015 Big discovery: Tiny electron's mass more precisely measured Scientists have made the most precise measurement yet of the electron's atomic mass
October 20, 2015 Fla. marine scientists blocked from Cuba research More than most scientists, though, marine biologists see access to Cuba as the difference between success and failure in their field. Now, they're being left further behind as researchers from other states and from private institutions in Florida scramble to take advantage of new signs that Cuba relations are improving.
October 20, 2015 National Ignition Facility announces promising results for nuclear fusion Scientists say they've taken a key step toward harnessing nuclear fusion as a new way to generate power, an idea that has been pursued for decades.
