Science & Technology Archives - Page 148 of 174

Now that water has been discovered on Mars, the next step is to ensure we don't contaminate the planet with Earthly microbes and bacteria.

A look at how climate change and human influences are changing the dynamics of fire, and the landscape, in the American west.

For 30 years we have assumed that no life would return to Chernobyl after the nuclear disaster there. We may be wrong.

New Horizons, the NASA probe deployed to visit Pluto, has begun a new mission: visit the Kuiper belt, a region beyond the orbit of Neptune.

The first human head transplant is scheduled for 2017. But the possibility of transplants has transfixed scientists for most of the last century.

Despite a long tradition of scientific inquiry and study, no Chinese scientist has won the coveted Nobel Prize. Until now. We try to understand why.

Americans go to desperate measures to keep their lawns manicured and green. But is it worth the environmental cost?

Beth Stevens was awarded the heralded "genius" grant for her work on microglia, the specialized nervous system cells.

We now know there's liquid water on Mars, according to NASA. But at the turn of the 20th century, we believed something else: that Mars had canals.

Since the 1970s, half of the world's fish population has disappeared. We trace the history of this ecological disaster.

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