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Comet 67P Has a Welcome Song for Rosetta And Philae
A successful touchdown after the comet chase is just the herald of more discoveries to come, including the cause of the comet’s strange song
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China’s Climate Promises: Necessary, But Not Sufficient
The new U.S. and Chinese climate goals are important, but they’re not enough to stop the problem
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Tomorrow, a Man-made Spacecraft Will Land On a Comet for the First Time, Ever
The action starts bright and early
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The Navy SEAL Who Says He Shot Bin Laden Goes Public
Robert O’Neill says he is the SEAL who killed bin Laden
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The International Space Station Just Avoided a Collision With Space Junk
A four-minute maneuver by a docked, unmanned European spacecraft pushed the ISS out of the path of a hand-sized chuck of space debris
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Atari Games That No One Wanted Now Selling for $500 a Pop
No one wanted Atari’s E.T. in 1982, but they want it now
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Virgin Galactic’s Aggressive Plan to Get Back in the Air
The company hopes to resume flying with a new ship by summer 2015
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A Lone Gray Wolf May Have Wandered Into the Grand Canyon
Officials haven’t confirmed whether the canine is a full-blooded gray wolf, but wolf advocates are pretty convinced
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Even Climate Scientists Are Getting Depressed by Our Lack of Progress
Anxiety about the changing environment isn’t just affecting you and professionals are working to understand it
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Guy Fawkes May Be the Root of the Word “Guys”
The word’s meaning has changed a lot throughout the centuries
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Scotland Is No Longer Home to the World’s Best Whiskys
When it comes to whisky, Japan, the US and even England now reign supreme
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A Horse Racing Favorite Died Minutes After Completing the Melbourne Cup
Admire Rakti wasn’t even the only horse to die at the races
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What SpaceShipTwo’s Crash Means for Virgin Galactic And Private Spaceflight
Private spaceflight may see tighter federal regulation
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Get Down With This Year’s “Dance Your PhD” Winners
Acrobatic human tornadoes and pair-dancing inertial confinement fusion implosions are among this year’s favorites
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Just Crashed in California
The private spaceflight company was testing a new fuel for their experimental spaceship
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Scientists Are Pretty Sure Survivors Can’t Transmit Ebola Sexually
Research suggests Ebola survivors aren’t infectious, but scientists aren’t ruling it out
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Why Doctors Still Don’t Know What’s Causing a Paralysis-Inducing Illness in Children
More children are showing up with limb flaccidness than health officials would expect, but the illness remains rare and mysterious
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Researchers from the frontline of the fight against Ebola must cancel their plans to attend an upcoming conference in New Orleans
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Aircraft Hunters Think They’ve Found a Scrap of Amelia Earhart’s Plane
This isn’t the first time a seemingly game-changing piece of evidence about Earhart’s disappearance has arisen, however
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