Scientists at a top British research unit embroiled in a row over climate research were cleared of dishonesty on Wednesday but their lack of openness was criticized.
BP faced a broadening crisis Tuesday with tar balls from the Gulf oil spill turning up on Texas beaches, as the firm's clean-up costs soared and British officials reportedly mulled a possible BP collapse.
A space telescope designed to peer into the enigma of the "Big Bang" has served up its first overall image of the cosmos, the European Space Agency said on Monday.
A team of engineers from the University of Ottawa is taking the term "fuel efficiency" to whole new heights.
The prototype of a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar energy aims to take to the skies on Thursday in the first attempt at a night flight fuelled by the sun, the team said.
The world's biggest atom smasher is swiftly gaining pace as scientists seek to unravel the secrets of the universe, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday.
The first major storm of the Atlantic season was entering the Gulf of Mexico Monday, seeming set to avoid the BP oil spill but leaving residents jittery after causing 10 deaths.
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One borough's self-defence against traffic congestion is setting off an angry backlash. The controversy shows how tough it is to resist the hegemony of the car.
While everybody is busy running over to their favourite consumer electronics store to pick up a 3-D television (btw, is it just me or do those glasses make all of us look like the love child of Karl Lagerfeld and Roy Orbison?), it seems like the television industry -much like all of the traditional media channels -also struggles to define its place with viewers while grappling with a future of digitization, media fragmentation and uncertainty.
While unemployment is dropping, it's still a big preoccupation, a fact underlined yesterday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which warned that governments mustn't take their focus off joblessness just because there's a recovery.
Definitely not the pussycat. There had been some trepidation about which comic persona newly minted Nasty Show host Greg Giraldo would bring to Club Soda.