Text A Message to Outer Space

Hello From Earth, a website set up in celebration of National Science Week in Australia is enabling Internet users to send a text-like message into the outer space. "They log into the website www.HelloFromEarth.net and type a Twitter-like message 160 characters long, which...

The missing 'nuclear scientist' is dead

A nuclear scientist from India, Lokanath Mahalingam who was missing before was found dead. "The mystery surrounding Lokanath Mahalingam, an employee at Kaiga Atomic Power Station, who was missing for the past four days finally came to an end with his dead-body recovered from...

Arctic sea ice is at its thinnest starting this spring

The Arctic sea ice is at its thinnest ever starting this spring as researchers in the area say that over 90 percent of it is less than two years old, so it is thinner and much more vulnerable than any other ice that could exist there. The researchers are with NASA and the...