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Satellite composite showing location of Vostok within the Antarctic continent (NASA) Two and a half miles beneath the surface of Antarctica’s central Eastern ice sheet is a body of water 160 miles by 30 miles across known as Lake Vostok , after the Vostok research station above it, built by the former Soviet Union in 1957 and now operated by Russia.

The thought of shuffling off our mortal coil can make all of us a little squeamish.

By Carey Gillam HALLSVILLE, Missouri (Reuters) - Dan Pugh wishes he had a bigger tractor and his wife Laura worries about their chickens in the winter weather. But as new farmers putting down roots in rural Missouri, the Pughs are counting on more rewards than regrets in trading their city lives for the country

The Bodele depression at the southern edge of the Sahara is a fearsome, forsaken place. Winds howl through the nearby Tebesti Mountains and Ennedi Plateau, picking up speed as they funnel into a parched wasteland nearly the size of California.

Astronomers have discovered a trove of exoplanets --more than 700 worlds in orbit around distant stars, with leads on thousands of additional suspects. So now, naturally, they're beginning to ask: What moons might be in orbit about these planets?

Starting a fire on the International Space Station might not sound like such a good idea. [More]

Child using transcranial direct current stimulation What if a drug could improve learning and cognition and had no untoward medical consequences? Wouldn t it be justified to make it widely available?

There are many different factors which go into whether animals (or humans) develop obesity and diabetes.

By Rebekah Kebede PERTH (Reuters) - Thousands of Australians were forced from their homes on Monday because of floods that have risen to record levels in some areas and killed one person, and authorities issued warnings for more than a dozen rivers in Queensland and New South Wales states. [More]

When plants engage in photosynthesis , sunlight breaks apart water and CO2 to release oxygen and build plant--and people--food. It's cheap and ubiquitous but not much use for powering a home

When plants engage in photosynthesis , sunlight breaks apart water and CO2 to release oxygen and build plant--and people--food. It's cheap and ubiquitous but not much use for powering a home

Today's robots that fly, jump or roll around must refuel or recharge as does any gadget that runs out of energy. Tomorrow's new generation of self-sustaining robots might keep going nearly forever by grazing on dead insects, rotting plant matter or even human waste. [More]

By night, I work as a technical research scientist, writer of papers and so on, but by day I walk the beaches of the world, looking for partially decomposed mystery carcasses and identifying them. Kidding: of course I don t, but you get the idea thanks in no small part to the Montauk Monster flap of 2008 , I ve become known as the guy who identifies weird carcasses. In fact, so many queries of this sort come in via email that I don t have time to blog about them anymore

By night, I work as a technical research scientist, writer of papers and so on, but by day I walk the beaches of the world, looking for partially decomposed mystery carcasses and identifying them.

Name : Todd Callaway [More]