Gut contents from the fossil of a plant-eating dinosaur living 75 million years ago reveal what could be the first evidence of parasitic stomach worms, scientists said. The evidence was found in a well preserved duck-billed dinosaur
A new brain chip under development established new connections in the brains of monkeys in a region that controls movement. Scientists hope to eventually make a version that could help humans with movement disorders.
South America's winding Amazon River flows in an easterly direction across the continent, dumping water into the Atlantic Ocean. But in eons past, it flowed from east-to-west and, for a time, in both directions at once, a new study finds.
They lack jaws, eyes and bones, but lampreys and their "primitive" anatomy have survived 360 million years and four major extinctions relatively unaltered. [some species lack eyes]
Scientists have unraveled the genetic code of the honey bee, uncovering clues about its complex social behavior, heightened sense of smell and African origins.
The discovery of the oldest bee fossil supports the theory that bees evolved from wasps. The 100 million-year-old fossil was found in a Myanmar mine preserved in amber. "This is the oldest known bee we've ever been able to identify, and it s
The Sun had sisters when it was born, hundreds to thousands of them.
At least one was a supernova, providing support that there could be lots of planets around other stars since our solar system emerged in such an explosive environment.
A chemical test used by the Mars Viking landers more than 30 years ago was not sensitive enough to detect signs of alien life even if they existed, a new study suggests.
I've yet to find a good way to convey to the non-technical public how well and truly screwed up we presently are. So now it's time to hit the panic button: In this article, I'm going to show you how to steal an election.
U.S. Space Command’s Vision for 2020 —which articulated a vision of “full spectrum dominance: and insisted that “space superiority is emerging as an essential element of battlefield success and future warfare”
Philip Smart is a Libertarian who is in jail because he believes in the ideas of freedom. A candidate for the 22nd State Senate in Texas he needs our support so he can continue the battle for freedom and to restore the Constitution for all Americans
That way, if Hess gets five percent of the vote, Libertarians will automatically be qualified for the ballot next cycle and save them lots of labor. Besides, anyone who has seen Hess in the debates would have to say he won the rounds.
At least 60 civilians were killed during
NATO operations in a volatile southern area of
Afghanistan earlier this week, two government officials and a civilian said.
Several months before a U.S. construction foreman named John Owen quit in disgust over what he said was blatant abuse of foreign laborers hired to build the sprawling new U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Rory Mayberry witnessed similar events when he flew to
North Korea warned South Korea against joining U.S.-led sanctions against Pyongyang and said it would take action after any such move by Seoul. South Korea’s participation in sanctions would be seen as a serious provocation leading to a “crisis of wa
While reportedly under investigation for her ties to an influential pro-Israel lobbying organization, California Rep. Jane Harman last month hosted a private dinner for the group that was attended by two top Bush administration officials—Director of
Now the federal government is extending the frontiers of terror with the Military Commissions Act, legalizing torture and suspending habeas corpus and constructing a loose web of law by which you and I could be hung by our ankles in a meat locker for
The dollar fell the most in a week against the yen on speculation U.S. government reports will show a housing slump and the weakest economic growth since the last quarter of 2005.
In our analysis of data from Pew, Gallup, and American National Election Studies, we find that the terrorism issue has masked an otherwise large swing of independent voters away from the Republican party from 2000 to 2004.
A coalition of mayors meets in Chicago to exchange strategies for fighting illegal guns and for winning tougher state and federal gun laws. "A large majority of Americans want some form of common-sense gun legislation," Chicago Mayor Richar
It wasn't the best day for the picture of a German soldier simulating oral sex with a skull to have appeared in the nation's biggest newspaper. The outrage about German troops posing with a skull in Afghanistan swept through Parliament
The Yemeni man is seeking the help of the US court system to address his complaint that he has been wrongfully imprisoned and treated unfairly by the US government. He filed a legal challenge asserting his rights to contest his detention and requesti
ANGER is building over the flood of confidential banking information handed to the US Treasury by global financial transactions hub Swift as part of a secret US program monitoring international funds transfers.
A curious teenager in Argentina has discovered the fossil skull of the biggest bird ever found -- a swift, flightless predator 10 feet tall that pursued its prey across the steppes of Patagonia 15 million years ago.
When the Army and Marine Corps decided to rewrite their field manual on how to fight insurgents last year, Nagl was chosen as one of its authors. His doctoral thesis on guerrilla wars was just republished in paperback with an approving foreword by th
Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that US interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to "water-boarding," which creates a sensation of drowning. The Bush administration doesn't regard water-boarding as torture and