Topic: Sciences

Field trips for Labor Day weekend

I'm taking Monday off to mark Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer and ... um, just to mark an extra day off. Regular postings will resume on...

Science explains Carlos' banana kick

By Samuel Petrequin. . PARIS — Thirteen years after Roberto Carlos stunned onlookers with his amazing “banana” free kick that seemed to defy the...
Researchers at Cambridge University have recently published a paper on their new type of WORM (write once read many) memory which is even more low...

Why the N.Z. quake is no Haiti

David Alexander / NZPA via AP. . A police officer stands on a street blocked by rubble following an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.. . In...
While many have lamented the end of the space-shuttle era, NASA has quickly turned to dreaming up the next grand space adventure: sending an...

Hubble Revisits Supernova 1987A

It's been more than two decades since we Earthlings got word that a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud had blown itself to smithereens. . Supernova...

WADA reports breakthrough in gene doping tests

0 0 . Two groups of scientists have developed tests for gene doping in what the World Anti-Doping Agency hailed Friday as a major breakthrough in ...
Get Science News From The New York Times . BOLTON LANDING, N.Y. (AP) -- A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe ...
A strong earthquake of 7.4 magnitude hit New Zealand, just 4 miles (7 km) southeast of Christchurch, in the middle of the night local time, the ...

Officers probed after crashing car

Two police officers have been suspended from driving duties after they stopped a suspected drink driver then wrote-off his sports car by crashing ...