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NASA images show extent of China’s choking pollution

NASA today released satellite images documenting the off-the-charts pollution that has blanketed Beijing with thick smog.

Kit unearths DNA's path to your past

Want to be a part of ancient history? The National Geographic Society's Genographic Project is inviting the public to join its massive effort to map the history of human migration using DNA.

Kevin Riordan writes about retired meteorologist Bob Wanton of Lindenwold, NJ, who for the National Weather Service for 46 years. Here, in his living room Wanton gives a demonstration usually reserved for school children, simulating the rotation of winds in a tornado with a device he calls a tornado tube.( Ed Hille / Staff Photographer )

Longtime weatherman gauges winds of change

When Bob Wanton began his career in the 1960s, meteorologists really did need to keep their eyes on the sky.

Common places uncontrolled chemicals reside

You don't have to live near a leaking Superfund site to be exposed to industrial chemicals. They are in many household items.

Common learning methods put to the test

Students, get out those flash cards: A new study finds that they may be a better study option than some of the more popular methods -- such as highlighting or rereading material.

Field Museum scientist James Holstein rests his hand on a 244-million-year-old fossil in a research area of the museum, January 7, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois. He discovered the fossil, the Thalattoarchon Saurophagis, during an exploration of a remote mountain range in Central Nevada. The creature was a marine reptile that roamed the sea as a predator that lived at the same time as dinosaurs. (Alex Garcia/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

T. rex of the sea discovered

The 28-foot-long animal is now known as Thalattoarchon saurophagis, "lizard-eating ruler of the seas," a member of the very successful ichthyosaur family that lived, for the most part concurrently with dinosaurs, for 160 million years.

Psychological woes could arise during interplanetary spaceflight: Study

Prolonged spaceflight could have a negative effect on astronauts' sleep, performance and mood, according to a new study.

Diego Urbina plays a Wii game inside one of the simulation modulesin Moscow. He was part of a six-man crew.

Penn-led team studies sleep in Mars mission simulation

What do you get when you put three Russians, two Western Europeans, and a man from China into cramped, windowless quarters for nearly a year and a half?

David Director holds a laptop that shows his home electricity usage created from data transmitted to his computer from The Energy Detective. ( MICHAEL S. WIRTZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ).

His study of energy expenses paid off

David Director is a man who loves spreadsheets. He spent years at his keyboard, poring over documents, looking for answers to one of life's burning questions.

This image provided Carl Agee, University of New Mexico, shows a rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara Desert. An examination of the Martian meteorite known as NWA 7034 determined it is 2.1 billion years old and is water-rich. (AP Photo/University of New Mexico, Carl Agee)

Scientists abuzz over Mars meteorite's age, moisture level

Scientists are abuzz about a coal-colored rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert: A yearlong analysis revealed it's quite different from other Martian meteorites.

Laura Morris Siena (left) and Eleanor Morris Illoway hope to see parts of the 400-acre family property in Chester County leased for five or six sustainable farms. RON TARVER / Staff Photographer

Leasing land aims to attract new farmers

For now, the land lies fallow. On a gray day, a cold wind whips the trees and rattles the windows of the historic farmhouse where Samuel and Eleanor Morris raised eight children.

Dust caused by drought conditions is blown neara combine harvesting corn near Tucker, Ark. AP, File

Don't ask how much snow a dry U.S. needs

Forecasters are talking feet, many feet, to make up for a severe drought.

ST. LOUIS - Despite getting some big storms last month, much of the United States is still desperate for relief from the nation's longest dry spell in decades. And experts say it will take an absurd amount of snow to ease the woes of farmers and ranchers.

Experts find remains of England's King Richard III

He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated and reviled.

Experts: We've found England's King Richard III

Scientists say they have found the 500-year-old remains of England's King Richard III under a parking lot in the city of Leicester.

In this photo taken Jan 23, 2013, in Juneau, Alaska, is the outside of the Alaskan Brewing Co. The brewery has installed a unique boiler system that burns the company´s dried, spent grain or waste accumulated by the brewing process into steam which powers the majority of the plant´s operations. (AP Photo/Joshua Berlinger)<br />

Beer will help power Alaska brewery

The Alaskan Brewing Co. is going green, but instead of looking to solar and wind energy, it has turned to a very familiar source: beer.

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2010 file photo, young people participate in an anti-gay bullying candlelight vigil to commemorate the recent deaths of gay teens at The Center Project in Columbia, Mo. A new Pediatrics study found scientific evidence that it does get better for gay teens, when it comes to bullying, although young gay men fare worse than their lesbian peers. (AP Photo/The Columbia Daily Tribune, Joshua A. Bickel, File)<br />

Bullying study: It does get better for gay teens

It really does get better for gay and bisexual teens when it comes to being bullied, although young gay men have it worse than their lesbian peers.

Scientists to reveal result of Richard III hunt

Has Britain's lost king been found?

Va. museum unwrapping mummy's story with CT scan

Using modern technology, a Virginia museum is working to unwrap the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies.

Iranian space official: Photo shows wrong monkey

One of two official packages of photos of Iran's famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but a primate really did fly into space and return safely to Earth, a senior Iranian space official confirmed Saturday.

This 2007 image provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society shows Bob Inman with the Wildlife Conservation Society holding part of an elk leg found outside a wolverine den built into a snowfield in the Spanish Peaks mountain range in Montana, as fellow wildlife researcher Tony McCue looks on. Wolverines need deep mountain snows to survive, but the government said Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 that anticipated warming temperatures in coming decades will shrink their habitat, putting the species in danger of extinction. (AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society)<br />

APNewsBreak: Feds: Warming imperils wolverines

The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the "mountain devil," could soon join the list of species threatened by climate change _ a dubious distinction putting it in the ranks of the polar bear and several other animals the government says will lose crucial habitat as temperatures rise.

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2003 file photo, debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas. The Columbia broke apart in flames 200,000 feet over Texas on Saturday, killing all seven astronauts just minutes before they were to glide to a landing in Florida. Ten years later, reminders of Columbia are everywhere, including up in the sky. Everything from asteroids, lunar craters and Martian hills, to schools, parks, streets and even an airport (Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport) bear the Columbia astronauts´ names. Two years ago, a museum opened in Hemphill, Texas, where much of the Columbia wreckage rained down, dedicated to "remembering Columbia." About 84,000 pounds of that wreckage, representing 40 percent of NASA´s oldest space shuttle, are stored at Kennedy and loaned for engineering research. (AP Photo/Scott Lieberman)

NASA marks 10 years since loss of Columbia, crew

Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and remember the seven astronauts who died.

South Africa Finalizes Lion Hunting Laws

Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and remember the seven astronauts who died.

Satellites Launch on Substorm Mission

Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and remember the seven astronauts who died.

Tire Reef Off Florida Proves a Disaster

A mile offshore from this city's high-rise condos and spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires, strewn across the ocean floor _ a white-walled, steel-belted monument to good intentions gone awry.

Court: Permit Violates Owl Protection

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it approved a 22,000-acre logging project that affects northern spotted owl habitat in southern Oregon.

Blair, Merkel Say Fight Global Warming

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday the moment was right to come up with new measures to combat global warming and vowed that the world's industrialized countries would push strongly this year for new emissions goals.