LiveScience.com - Gentlemen, start your engines. To survive, male fruit flies compensate for their genetic shortcomings by revving up their genes.

LiveScience.com - In a previously unexplored area of the Amazon rain forest, scientists have discovered a new species of catfish swimming in a tributary to the great Amazon River.

LiveScience.com - The world just got a little weirder: Scientists have identified four new species of brain-controlling fungi that turn ants into zombies that do the parasite's bidding before it kills them.

LiveScience.com - WASHINGTON — Future U.S. security may depend upon energy innovations that reduce dependence upon foreign oil. But the former Silicon Valley entrepreneur who heads the U.S. government's advanced-energy initiative said clean-energy technologies also will represent the biggest business opportunity in the coming decades.

SPACE.com - HOUSTON – NASA's space shuttle Discovery cast off from the International Space Station for the final time today (March 7), beginning the last leg of its last space voyage nearly 12 years after the prolific spacecraft's first visit to the orbiting lab.

AFP - Last year's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill sparked by an explosion on a BP-leased platform is no reason to stop deep sea drilling, the group's chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said...

Time.com - A new way of measuring galactic distances can help crack a century-old riddle

SPACE.com - HOUSTON – NASA's space shuttle Discovery is poised to cast off from the International Space Station for the last time today (March 7), nearly 12 years after the prolific spacecraft's first visit to the orbiting lab.

SPACE.com - The tradition of beaming a wakeup song to astronauts soaring over our planet stretches back to the early days of human spaceflight, and NASA's final space shuttle missions this year are providing no exception.

SPACE.com - HOUSTON – Less than 24 hours before the space shuttle Discovery departs the International Space Station, the shuttle crew and the astronauts living onboard the space station joined together for a special farewell ceremony today (March 6) to commemorate the end of a successful joint mission, and to celebrate Discovery's final visit to the orbiting outpost.

SPACE.com - HOUSTON – The astronauts on NASA's space shuttle Discovery are packing up their spaceship today (March 6) and will soon say farewell to the International Space Station.

AFP - A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit off the Solomon Islands on Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, but no destructive Pacific-wide tsunami was...

AP - As the storm roared toward Pauline Patton's apartment, she peered out the window and saw something she wasn't ready for: A funnel cloud. Suddenly, the power went out. Rainwater poured through the ceiling. And as everything went black, she heard what sounded like a bomb exploding...

Reuters - The government reiterated on Sunday that it could tap its strategic oil reserves in order to safeguard economic growth as surging gasoline prices threaten to amp up pressure for...

AP - The space shuttle and space station crews hugged goodbye Sunday after more than a week together, but saved their most heartfelt farewell for...

Reuters - Chiu Mung-ngor and her husband paid $3.3 million for their Hong Kong flat in a luxury apartment block in 2009, lured into buying it partly by its view of the harbour.

AP - A powerful earthquake has struck waters off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries and no tsunami is expected.

AP - A magnitude-6.2 earthquake on Sunday shook a northern region of Chile that has felt several frightening but inconsequential tremors in recent days. No injuries and only minor damage were...

Reuters - The government reiterated on Sunday that it could tap its strategic oil reserves in order to safeguard economic growth as surging gasoline prices threaten to amp up pressure for...

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The Middle East's continuing crisis has increased oil price pressures, forcing them up, while American and European consumers pay. Oil is holding at $103 per barrel, prices show little signs of retreating and based on recent "after January" price surges, $3.80 to $4 or more per gallon pump prices are realistic. Had the U.S. focused more on renewable energy,...

Reuters - A NASA scientist reports detecting tiny fossilized bacteria on three meteorites, and maintains these microscopic life forms are not native to Earth.

ContributorNetwork - Recently, BP and the Russian government announced they planned to begin drilling ventures in the Arctic region in the Kara Sea. But concerns from Russian shareholders in the vertically integrated Russian oil company TNK-BP have created a roadblock. The Russian shareholders have expressed concern over the Russian government allowing Rosneft and BP to partner up to be a major...

Reuters - The 2011 Alaska commercial salmon harvest is forecast to be one of the largest since statehood -- but that doesn't mean prices will be coming down any time soon, a state fish and game official said on Sunday.

ContributorNetwork - With the end of the space shuttle program drawing nigh, NASA and the big aerospace contractors that have supported flying the shuttle, have started to shed thousands of talented people who will no longer be needed.