Australian rescuers evacuate an American from a US facility in Antarctica. Amy La Porte talks about the rescue.
Imagine a real-life version of Harry Potter's magical Marauder's Map, which showed the location of everyone prowling throughout Hogwarts castle. That's what startup Xandem is building: a new kind of all-seeing motion-detection system that's poised to shake up the security market.
Imagine you are sitting in your office simply doing your job and a nasty e-mail pops into your inbox accusing you of being a fraud. You go online and find that some bloggers have written virulent posts about you. That night, you're at home with your family watching the news and a talking head is lambasting you by name. Later, a powerful politician demands all your e-mails from your former employer.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill damaged coral formations deep beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and miles from the ruptured well at the heart of the disaster, researchers reported Monday.
An American engineer who was stranded in the South Pole for weeks after suffering a stroke will be discharged from a Maryland hospital Saturday, the woman told reporters.
The American researcher, who was stranded in the South Pole for weeks after suffering a stroke, is finally back on American soil.
Women at South Pole continues to wait for plane ride to hospital to get treatment for stroke.
After weeks of waiting, an American researcher who suffered a suspected stroke while working at the South Pole has arrived in New Zealand for evaluation and treatment, a National Science Foundation official confirmed Monday.
Maybe everything really is bigger in Texas.
Will you be able to charge your next mobile phone simply by walking around?
When I was a young boy, I dreamed of two things: one, to become a paleontologist, and another, to have a pet dinosaur. I have become a paleontologist, and now I strive to figure out a way to bring back or create my living dinosaur.
Building a low-carbon economy is the scientific, political and moral challenge of our time, and a tremendous opportunity for women.
In October, scientists completed a 10 year study on ocean life. CNN's Ralitsa Vassileva reports.
"Alien oceans could be detected by telescope," headlines a Web report about an article in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by Tyler Robinson and colleagues at NASA. The report projects that the $6.5 billion James Webb Space Telescope will be capable of such an impressive feat when it is launched some time after 2014 as a more powerful successor to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope.
Astronomer Derrick Pitts talks about the possibility of life on a recently discovered planet.
Astronomers have discovered a new planet that just may be able to support life in a nearby solar system a mere 20 light years from Earth.
Penguins didn't always come in black and white, paleontologists said Thursday, citing the discovery of a 36-million-year-old fossil of a bird that, in its day, waddled nearly 5 feet tall.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Thursday that a cap placed over the damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico will remain sealed even if a tropical storm forces vessels monitoring the area to evacuate. A sealed cap means no oil is escaping.
Tropical Depression 3 has formed and is moving west over the Bahamas, posing a threat to containment efforts in the Gulf.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully coated paper with a solar cell, part of a suite of research projects aimed at energy breakthroughs.
With your house almost certainly worth less now than it was three years ago --and with more declines possible -- you may feel stuck in your current place. Stuck, and bummed out.
Scientists witnessed the eruption of the deepest underwater volcano and caught the entire event on film for the first time -- complete with molten lava and sulfur smoke clouds.
Scientists witnessed the eruption of the deepest underwater volcano and caught the event on film.
With layoffs rampant, holding on to workers ought to be the least of a company's worries -- unless those employees are scientists and engineers. According to the National Science Foundation, nearly 40% of these skilled workers in the U.S. are more than 50 years old, and the pipeline of talent to replace them is shrinking. IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates predicts a 7% to 11% shortage of experienced engineers in 2011. America is not alone; industrial powerhouses Germany and Japan face similar demographic challenges.
It sounds like something from the movie "Twister" -- teams of scientists in vans, armed with high-tech measuring equipment, barreling across the Oklahoma plains in search of tornadoes.
Meteorologist Rob Marciano follows scientists on the prowl for tornadoes to study.
An international team of researchers plans to head to Antarctica later this year to begin a four-year project exploring some of the last uncharted regions on Earth.
A team of scientists will use a World War II-era plane to explore one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, in hopes of learning more about climate change.
Can a plague of beetles change the weather? That's one question researchers hope to answer in a four-year research program in Western forests that are being infested by pine mountain beetles, leading to the deaths of great swathes of trees
Scientists hope to add one more ability to the tongue and turn it into a computer control pad
Sniffer dogs have long been a useful tool in the search for hidden drugs and explosives, but the future looks bleak for man's best friend as scientists seek to develop a new ultra-sensitive electronic nose device.
A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity
Despite the enduring stereotype that girls are less proficient with numbers than boys, a new study suggests there is no longer any such difference
Though many adults imagine the frightening Grand Theft Auto when they think of video games, kids appear to be subtler thinkers on the subject. Not only do many of them intuitively realize that games can embody any values and be on any subject, many want to make games themselves.
Victims of disasters are told it's good to talk about your feelings. But a new study questions the benefits
Mercury contamination in rivers can spread to nearby birds, even
ones that don't eat fish or other food from the water
Nearly two years after a flap in which veterans' personal information was put at risk of identity theft, the feds are still not doing all they can to prevent further lapses
Observations confirmed a leading theory that a doughnut-shaped ring of material could be responsible for the formation of massive stars, scientists reported today.
Astronomers announced Monday the discovery of the smallest planet so far found outside of our solar system.
An old star that's been reborn has surprised researchers by flying through the process 100 times faster than predicted.
Cornell University chemists are looking for ways to take the petroleum out of plastics. And nature has provided one green alternative, in the form of oranges.
If you're light, it's fairly easy to travel at your own speed -- that is to say 186,282 miles per second or 299,800 kilometers per second.
Startled astronomers peered through an apparent crack in the expanding bubble from an exploded star to glimpse what may be the youngest black hole ever detected.
Next time Earth's magnetic field flips, compass needles will point South instead of North. But scientists can't say when it will occur, and until now they've disagreed on how long the transitions take.
From his first day in office, small business owners have kept a watchful eye on President George W. Bush, looking for any sign that he'd do what few Commanders-in-Chief have done before: champion t...
It shouldn't have bothered me when Iridium, the satellite-telephone company, filed for Chapter 11 protection. I have no current plans to visit the Gobi Desert, and my GSM phone works everyplace but...
Fortune: The Y2K Playupdated: Mon Feb 15 1999 00:01:00
"As we prepare for Y2K," writes Eric Utne, in a recent supplement to his touchy-feely Utne Reader, "something surprising and unexpected and quite wonderful is going to happen. We're going to get to...
Fortune: The Net Name Gameupdated: Mon Feb 16 1998 00:01:00
Starting later this year, you may notice some strange-looking names on the Web. Maybe you'll visit a site that ends with .firm or .store instead of .com, or perhaps you will write an E-mail to joe....
THE FUTURE of information technology descends upon us in a swarm of buzzwords: global village, electronic superhighway, information age, electronic frontier. Someday soon, cyberspace -- the vast, i...
Hooking into a network isn't cheap: Classrooms rarely have the necessary computers, modems, or even telephone lines, not to mention cash to cover phone bills and network connection fees. Add to tha...
Call it Bill Clinton's incredible dwindling investment agenda. During the campaign he called for $220 billion in new spending and tax breaks over four years to shift the economy into higher gear. I...
When Vice President Al Gore discusses one of his favorite subjects, the so- called electronic superhighway, he calls up images of a country connected by computer terminals. The backbone of such a s...
IS AMERICA investing enough in research and development, a cornerstone of future economic success? Total U.S. outlays for government and civilian R&D peaked at $157 billion in 1989 and have since s...
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Va. 22161 (703) 487-4650 This agency of the Department of Commerce provides on-line, microfiche, and printed directories, a...
Everyone knows that leveraged buyouts clobber research and development. Right? You've heard the argument. To bolster all-important cash flow, managers choke off discretionary spending like R&D. Say...
Bored with Amazon rain forests, Indonesian temples, and the Great Barrier Reef? Jaded travelers, take heart: Antarctica awaits. It's among the most chic destinations because getting there is expens...
Simon Ramo -- the Ramo in Bunker-Ramo, a computer venture, and the ''R'' in TRW, the giant defense electronics company -- has advised Presidents and served on the boards of corporations and univers...
SCIENCE BESPEAKS power, both military and economic. The U.S. has long had the most productive scientific establishment in the world: Since the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico d...
Fortune: WHAT THE U.S. CAN DOupdated: Mon Oct 13 1986 00:01:00
JAPAN MAY BE ABLE to bring it off, but U.S. Inc. would flop. A high-tech juggernaut under centralized command would conquer nothing but itself. That doesn't mean a little cooperation wouldn't help....
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