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By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Amateur historians and astronomers are buzzing with intrigue over allegations that the legendary US astronomer Edwin Hubble, after whom NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is named, may have actively censored the work of a competitor to advance his own career. Professional historians are demanding further evidence, but advocates of the position are already urging NASA to name a future space mission after the slighted researcher

It was an accidental mutation of the Tetrahymena thermophila (left), a pond organism, during a lab experiment that revealed that the enzyme telomerase keeps the protective caps on the end of chromosomes long. Speaking at the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau, Elisabeth Blackburn compared the caps, called telomeres , to the tips on the end of a shoelace that prevent it from fraying. Telomeres protect DNA during cell division

Oliver Smithies won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2007. On June 27th, he spoke to students [at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting] about what he learned from his thesis research, which involved developing a new method to measure the osmotic pressures of mixes of proteins: "Here's my osmotic pressure measurement. And I was rather proud of this method

The Vatican has announced the launch of a cutting-edge website designed for browsing via social media. But how will Papal homilies play on Twitter? The faithful will now be able to keep up with the Catholic Church's news and opinions via Facebook and Twitter .

LivingSocial has acquired popular pan-Arab coupon site GoNabit for an undisclosed sum, which is good news for local startups and quite bad news for Groupon's struggling Middle East operations. LivingSocial announced the acquisition of pan-Arab deals site GoNabit for an undisclosed sum today

Do "likes" and retweets add up to sales? Who knows

As Operation Enduring Freedom, the war on terror in Afghanistan, winds down and some 33,000 U.S.

Madhurima Benekareddy

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from the new book HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser. Copyright (c) 2011 by David Kaiser.

Pepper your table with these dispensers.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC inked a deal Friday with the Canadian government to develop technology to control oil emissions. The province of Alberta announced it would provide C$745 million to test carbon capture and sequestration technology on Shell's Scotford Upgrader, which is similar to a refinery for processing heavy oil.

Creationists have long contended that the vertebrate eye is too complex to be a product of evolution. [More]

June was the busiest month of the academic year for New York State high school teachers and their students.

The human eye is an exquisitely complicated organ. It acts like a camera to collect and focus light and convert it into an electrical signal that the brain translates into images. But instead of photographic film, it has a highly specialized retina that detects light and processes the signals using dozens of different kinds of neurons

New sunscreen labeling regulations were issued by the federal government last week for the first time in more than 30 years. The U.S