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Curiosity rover completes 1st drill into Mars rock

Curiosity rover completes 1st drill into Mars rock

In a Mars first, the Curiosity rover drilled into a rock and prepared to dump an aspirin-sized pinch of powder into its onboard laboratories for closer inspection.

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Tragedy for dinosaurs, opportunity for mammals, us

Tragedy for dinosaurs, opportunity for mammals, us

New research pinpoints how the torch passed from one dominant creature on Earth to another, from the brutish dinosaur to the crafty mammal.

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150-foot asteroid will buzz Earth

150-foot asteroid will buzz Earth

A 150-foot-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites. It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size.

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Researchers ID largest prime number yet

Mathematicians at the University of Central Missouri have identified the largest prime number yet, but good luck remembering it.

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Cold fusion a hot idea for Minnesota research into sustainable energy

Cold fusion a hot idea for Minnesota research into sustainable energy

A small company is gambling that a new line of scientific research could lead to development of a breakthrough alternative energy. Researchers with the Hunt Utilities Group are focused on a theoretical energy source once commonly known as cold fusion. They're asking new questions about the technology widely dismissed by the mainstream scientific community.
by Tom Robertson

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Hunt Utilities Group looks for new sources of sustainable energy

Hunt Utilities Group looks for new sources of sustainable energy

A small company is gambling that a new line of scientific research could lead to development of a breakthrough alternative energy. In Pine River, the campus of the Hunt Utilities Group sits on 70-acres dotted with an eclectic mix of experimental buildings designed to promote sustainable living. Researchers here are focused on a theoretical energy source once commonly known as "cold fusion."

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Va. museum unwrapping mummy's story with CT scan

Va. museum unwrapping mummy's story with CT scan

Using modern technology, a museum is working to unwrap the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts partnered with a medical imaging center to complete a CT scan on Tjeby, its 4,000-year-old mummy, in hopes of piecing together more information about the mummy itself and better understanding the early history of the mummification process.

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NASA marks 10 years since loss of shuttle Columbia

NASA marks 10 years since loss of shuttle Columbia

Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and remember the seven astronauts who died.

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If space shuttle is doomed, do you tell the crew?

If space shuttle is doomed, do you tell the crew?

A NASA top official wrestled with what he thought was a hypothetical question: What should you tell the astronauts of a doomed space shuttle Columbia?

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Apple blocks Java on Macs for security

Some Mac users were taken by surprise Thursday as their computers stopped running programs written using the Java programming language after Apple blocked Java due to security problems.

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