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The Obama administration has withdrawn regulations that would have prevented at least 1,500 deaths per year from unhealthy levels of smog in the air. [More]

High on the Tibetan Plateau, paleontologists have uncovered the skull of a previously unknown species of ancient rhino, a woolly furred animal that came equipped with a built-in snow shovel on its face.

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Surging flood waters in northern and eastern India have affected millions of people, forcing many from their homes as swollen rivers wash away roads and make rescue work difficult, government and aid officials said on Friday. [More]

Another storm has come and gone, and as the cleanup gets started another series of cities sends armies of people with clipboards out to survey, assess, reach out. [More]

Night owls might think staying up late is a real hoot, but a new study hints that delayed sleep might have a sinister side.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck on Friday in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, the U.S.

CREATIVE ECCENTRICS Thank you for the excellent article “ The Unleashed Mind ,” by Shelley Carson. It’s very refreshing to read that people with eccentric, novel and even schizophrenic ways of thinking are often very high functioning, talented, intelligent individuals who can use their strange perceptual experiences to access beauty, originality and creativity.

For decades neuroscientists have been building theories of brain function despite a near total lack of data on the most numerous neurons of all: cerebellar granule cells.

* Senator vows no ax to spending on "hurricane hunters" * Says deficit-cutting zeal threatens public safety [More]

"There's a reason we've never gone back to the moon," teases the poster for the new horror sci-fi flick "Apollo 18." The movie claims to reveal decades-old footage of astronauts on a secret mission two years after Apollo 17 -- the last real expedition to the moon -- flew in 1972. (Without giving away anything that isn't in the trailer, lunar aliens apparently share some blame for our 40-year absence from the moon.) In actuality, NASA did prepare for Apollos 18, 19 and 20.

* Northeast towns cut off, covered with water * Power slow to come back on, especially in Connecticut [More]

Here comes the next generation of innovators revolutionizing batteries. Per-Ivar Sellergren is helping Volvo put energy storage--both batteries and high-power supercapacitors--in the body panels of cars. Photo by Christian Aslund Per-Ivar Sellergren Senior Research and Development Engineer Volvo Car Corp., Goeteborg, Sweden Sellergren, 60, is helping Volvo put energy storage--both batteries and high-power supercapacitors--in the body panels of cars

* Explorers find pipes, twine from doomed 1845 expedition * Franklin, 128 men died trying to find Northwest Passage [More]

Monday, September 05 With all the hot dogs and beer, it's easy to forget the labor part of Labor Day. President Grover Cleveland instituted this work-free Monday in 1894, choosing the date to both recognize the Central Labor Union's labor day and avoid associating the holiday with May 1, the labor day celebrated by the International Workers of the World and marked by the 1886 Haymarket riots

NEW YORK--Just as a true outbreak might, the new viral thriller Contagion, opening this weekend, begins unremarkably enough. [More]