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| TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories |
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| New 'Super-Earth': A Potentially Habitable Planet? |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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In an improbable spot, scientists say they've discovered a world like our own where water and biology might exist |
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| Sharpest telescope ever |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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A new system provides all the clarity of stargazing from space and none of the challenges |
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| U.S.-China Solar War: Tariffs on Imports Spark Debate |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Tariffs on Chinese imports is a feel-good solution that could do a lot of harm |
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| Happy Birthday, Opportunity! Mars Rover Turns 8 |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Since 2004, the interplanetary car has been trundling across the Martian surface |
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| Climate Change: Why It's Time to Focus on Farming |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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The fact that the climate is already changing, and will continue to change, means we need to start adapting agriculture to a warmer world immediately |
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| The 'Choking Game': 1 in 7 College Kids Has Tried It |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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The potentially lethal Choking Game, which involves cutting off the blood supply to the brain, appears to be popular with some college students who think it's not as dangerous as using illicit drugs |
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| New Mexico Is Stretching, Slowly but Surely |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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The driving distance between Phoenix and Dallas is getting farther. It's a minuscule difference -- not even a millimeter a year -- but it's a tangible phenomenon, and you can blame on the middleman: New Mexico |
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| The Milky Way's Babies: Why Can't We See More of Them? |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Our galaxy ought to have a lot more company -- so where is it? |
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| Gravitational Lensing: The Optical Illusion That Explains the Cosmos |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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You may never have heard of gravitational lensing, but it's redrawing the very map of space |
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| NASA's Lunar Orbiter Finds the Moon's Wetter Regions |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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The darkest, least habitable spots on the lunar surface turn out to be the wettest too |
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| Astronomers Are Hunting for Exomoons with Kepler's Help |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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If distant stars have their own worlds, why shouldn't distant worlds have their own moons? |
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| Russia Accuses U.S. of Secret Mars Plot After Probe Bust |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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The failure of a Russian space probe leads to charges of sabotage |
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| Brain Science, Moral Disgust: Why We Loathe John Edwards |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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As John Edwards petitions for yet another postponement of his campaign-finance trial, a look at why the human brain recoils at the former pretty boy of politics |
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| The Year That Winter Forgot: Is It Climate Change? |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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What unusually mild temperatures do -- and don't -- tell us about climate change |
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| An Oily Case: Chevron's Never-Ending, Record-Breaking Lawsuit in Ecuador |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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How long has the legal battle between indigenous groups in the Ecuadorean Amazon and the oil giant Chevron been going on? |
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| China's Going to the Moon -- and That's Good for Everyone |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Until the U.S. gets its Apollo-era mojo back, it could do worse than rooting for China to go the places the U.S. won't |
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| Why Wild Animals and Hollywood Don't Mix |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Nonhuman actors have always been featured in movies; they shouldn't be |
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| Dry-Roasted Planets: A Sunlike Star Tried to Eat Its Young |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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In the KOI 55 system, the Kepler probe finds evidence that two dry-roasted planets survived the fiery death throes of their parent sun |
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| GRAIL Mission Spacecraft Arrive at Moon to Study It |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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These satellites probing deep beneath the moon's surface will analyze its interior structure in unprecedented detail |
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| Scientists Find That Pigeons Are Capable of Simple Math |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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It's not just humans and other primates that can master simple math; the most ordinary of birds can too |
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| Is Fear of Divorce Keeping People from Getting Married? |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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A new study suggests that young cohabiting couples are refraining from marriage out of fear of divorce |
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| Got Money? Then You Might Lack Compassion |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Are the rich really the unfeeling boors they're made out to be? Studies suggest that the richer people are, the less compassion they show |
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| Two Earth-Size Planets Found Orbiting a Distant Star |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Using the powerful Kepler space telescope, a team of astronomers has found two rocky worlds similar in size to our own, orbiting a star known as Kepler-20, some 950 light-years away |
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| Environmentalism: Can Conservationists Trump Developers? |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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A pristine planet is never coming back, but that doesn't mean it can't become O.K. |
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| The Science of Fish Democracy: Minority Influence |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Political parties are not so different from schooling fish -- and that can be a good thing |
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| Newt Gingrich's Unusual Ideas About Space and Science |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Moon mining! Space mirrors! The GOP front runner is full of ideas |
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| Physicists Seek Higgs Boson 'God Particle' to Explain Mass |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Physicists close in on an explanation for why the universe has any mass at all |
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| Study: Indoor Tanning Linked With Early Onset of Skin Cancer |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Given that indoor tanning beds were officially classified as a human carcinogen in 2009 -- up there with cigarettes and asbestos -- it should be fairly obvious that frequent tanning-booth exposure would increase your risk of skin cancer |
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| For U.S. Renewable Energy, 2012 Will Be a Bad Year |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Expiration of federal subsidies could cripple a growing industry |
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| NASA's Mars Rover Finds Mineral Traces Left by Water |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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A new discovery in a Martian crater yields clues to the planet's watery past |
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| U.N. Global-Warming Talks: Good for Diplomats, Indifferent for the Climate |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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There are deals and then there are deals. That's my takeaway from the U.N. climate negotiations in the South African city of Durban, which finally concluded early Sunday local time |
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| Scientists Find a Pair of Supermassive Black Holes |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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The discovery of two new black holes, each about 330 million light-years away or so, was just announced in the journal Nature. The smaller of the two is nearly 30% bigger than anything we've ever seen before |
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| New Earth Found? |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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The Kepler Space telescope finds a world that looks tantalizingly like our own |
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| A Key Trick to Bed Bugs' Persistence: Inbreeding |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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If bed bugs seem to be everywhere, it's probably because they are |
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| Five Truths About Our Energy Future |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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It's not easy to see what's around the energy bend, but here are hard -- if unexpected -- realities |
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| Would You Kill One Person to Save Five? New Research on a Classic Debate |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Imagine you are a train-yard operator who sees an out-of-control boxcar running down a track that five workers are busy repairing |
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| NASA's Growing Space Fleet Explores the Solar System |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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A swarm of American ships is venturing deep into the solar system, studying Mercury, the moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto up close |
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