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Humans

How Would Carnegie Judge Our Digital Libraries?

As the nature of "modern" libraries change, one digital designer questions whether libraries are losing much more than just hard copies of their books.

Planetary Science

Surprise found in comet dust

Scientists find an odd mineral that could offer clues to the solar system's origins.

Humans

Digital Data Cry Out — Save Me!

Despite being make-or-break issues, how to collect, store, and catalog digital data are on the radar screens of few scientists and engineers.

Life

Wine find

Cell tests suggest that resveratrol, the substance that seems to account for the healthful effects of red wine, might have antiobesity effects, too.

Health & Medicine

Good news for coffeeholics

When lifestyle factors like smoking were taken into account, coffee drinkers had lower death rates than their non-drinking peers, according to a study of more than 120,000 people.

Health & Medicine

Keep at it

Moderate exercise can extend survival for overweight and obese men who have diabetes.

Astronomy

Otherworldly triple play

Astronomers have discovered the first known system of three superEarths beyond the solar system.

Astronomy

Accidental astrophysicists

MATH TREK: The mathematicians thought they'd just extended a fundamental result in algebra, but it turns out that they'd also proven a conjecture in astrophysics.

Astronomy

Visions of dirt

Phoenix Lander gets first close-up of Martian soil.

Astronomy

Not a ripple

Another null result for gravitational waves. But findings from LIGO still reveal new information about the Crab Pulsar.

Science & Society

Confirmed: Big Dipper to Get Doritos

A European astronomy group beamed a video of a Doritos sacrifice to the god of salsa at a possible alien race in a star system associated with the Big Dipper.

Humans

Doritos in Space

Today, a huge European radar-transmitter system sent an ad for a cheesy snack radiating out into space.