A leatherback turtle has been tracked swimming from the coast of the Papua province in Indonesia to Oregon, researchers said, in what may be the longest trip for marine vertebrae between breeding and feeding sites. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Like most youngsters, 12-year-old Ellie Wiseman loves her food, especially fish fingers and chocolate. Yet despite eating six meals a day, she weighs just two and a half stone and is too weak to walk more than 100 yards. Her parents say she suffers from an unexplained condition which means that she is unable to put on any weight. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Women who feel severely stressed at early stage are at risk of having a baby developing a schizophrenia disorder. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

Officials are trying to figure out why workers at a meat plant were stricken with a strange neurological illness. picked by deepchill 2 years ago

Scientists Create See-Through Fish, Watch Cancer Grow. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

One of Saturn's rings does housecleaning, soaking up material gushing from the fountains on Saturn's tiny ice moon Enceladus, according to new observations from the Cassini spacecraft. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

In crafting persuasive messages to target populations, these personnel act as force multipliers, working to maximize the impact of combat troops.

In honor of FAF picked by tchengrox 2 years ago

Lone female in aquarium gives birth to a pup without ever coming into contact with a male. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Authorities in east Georgia are seeking the owner of a wandering emu that made drivers gawk and clogged traffic on Interstate 20 before it was finally caught. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

It may take a lot of frequent-flier miles, a penchant for cold places, a tolerance of taxes and regular doses of chocolate, but happiness could be within reach. However, it's not where most people might expect. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Update to this story: picked by dexhol 2 years ago

In other words, we're f**ked either way. picked by mahler87 2 years ago

After two months of delay, shuttle Atlantis blasted into orbit Thursday with Europe's gift to the international space station, a $2 billion science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail. picked by CheeseWiener 2 years ago

A moose's friendly behavior has Vermont wildlife officials concerned. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Head lice taken from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru support the idea that the little creatures accompanied humans on their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago, researchers reported on Wednesday. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Scientists on Wednesday said they have an explanation how one of Saturn's moons can spew out a giant plume of water vapor, adding to evidence a source of life -- water -- lies beneath the moon's frozen surface. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Teenage girls will be steered towards long-term contraceptives in the battle to reduce the number of underage pregnancies. Many fail to take the traditional Pill regularly and cannot use condoms properly, ministers say. These methods are having little impact on the teenage pregnancy rate, which remains the highest in Western Europe. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

These heartbreaking photos of a mother whale and her calf being dragged to their death by Japanese whalers have been released by the Australian government and greeted with fury by the public. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A total eclipse of the Moon occurs during the night of Wednesday, February 20/21, 2008. The entire event is visible from South America and most of North America (on Feb. 20) as well as Western Europe, Africa, and western Asia (on Feb. 21). During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon's disk can take on a dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red to dark brown and (rarely) very dar... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An indoor Grass Patch for your dog to use as a bathroom. The equivalent of a litter box for a cat. A drainage ditch keeps the grass from sitting in the pee and killing it. picked by MUPpetMAKer 2 years ago

Scientists in Germany say that tattoos could be the ideal way of delivering vaccines into the body. picked by keroberos32 2 years ago

Mathematical physicists at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow believe that the vast experiment at CERN, the European particle physics centre near Geneva in Switzerland, may turn out to be the world's first time machine picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The countdown has begun to a partial solar eclipse visible from Brisbane to Adelaide this afternoon.

There's a bloody storm right now and I won't be able to see anything :( picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

What do you call an absence of darkness? Dark matter is supposed to be spread throughout the universe, but a new study reports a spiral galaxy that seems to be empty of the stuff, and astrophysicists cannot easily explain why. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The Mission Objectives of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) include confirming the presence or absence of water ice by blowing up a large portion of two polar craters. If water could be found, a moon base would much more feasible. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago