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  1. Thinking Makes Us Pig Out LiveScience.com - Thu Sep 4, 11:11 AM ET

    Food for thought: Intellectual activities make people eat more than when just resting, according to a study that sheds new light on brain food.

  2. A woman gives her fingerprints to join a petition in a file photo. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
    New fingerprint method could unlock cold cases Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 7:09 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - It's a discovery that would make even Sherlock Holmes proud.

  3. A couple stands at the embankment of the Volga River in Samara, about 1000 km (620 miles) southeast of Moscow May 18, 2007. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
    Marriage problems? Husband's genes may be to blame Reuters - Tue Sep 2, 2:21 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The same gene that affects a rodent's ability to mate for life may affect human marriages, Swedish and U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

  4. Songstress and MAC AIDS Fund spokesperson Fergie strikes a pose following performances about the dangers of HIV and prevention methods from a group of New York City youth at Safe Space, a homeless drop-in center, on September 3, 2008. Fergie's visit is part of a launch of a new $2.3 million youth-focused funding initiative from the MAC AIDS Fund, designed to combat the spread of the disease among 15- to 24-year-olds who account for more than half of all new infections. Money for the new initiative was raised through sales of Fergie's limited edition MAC Viva Glam lip gloss, one of eight products in the makeup line that dedicates 100 percent of the sales price to the MAC AIDS Fund.
    Gene may hold key to neutralizing HIV: U.S. study Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 3:40 PM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - The AIDS virus is especially hard to fight because few people develop antibodies to neutralize it, but U.S. researchers said on Thursday they have found an immunity gene that may offer a new way to fight back.

  5. Lucy Kuptana weeds her garden in an old hockey arena converted to a greenhouse for growing vegetables 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of the Arctic Circle in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, August 26, 2008. The half-pipe shaped facility is North America's northern-most commercial greenhouse, and a virtual necessity for anyone interested in eating a fresh vegetable in Inuvik that has not been shipped in from a warmer climate. (Todd Korol/Reuters)
    Raising vegetables under Canada's midnight sun Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 2:44 PM ET

    INUVIK, Northwest Territories (Reuters) - Amanda Joynt reached down and picked a fresh tomato from the vine. That's no small feat when you are living 200 km (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle in Canada's Far North.

  6. Strange New Comet Explains Old Mystery SPACE.com - Thu Sep 4, 4:01 PM ET

    Halley's comet, which lights up Earth's sky every 75 years with its glowing tail, is a bit of a scientific mystery.

  7. A Perseid meteor streaks towards the horizon during the annual Persied meteor shower in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, August 12, 2008. Perseids meteors are bits of debris left by the comet Swift-Tuttle which burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. REUTERS/Doug Murray (UNITED STATES)
    Unusual asteriod orbit sheds light on comets' birth: researchers AFP - Thu Sep 4, 2:16 PM ET

    MONTREAL (AFP) - Canadian, French and US astronomers have found a strange asteroid with an odd orbit which could help explain the origin of comets, the National Research Council of Canada reported Thursday.

  8. Undated handout photo shows the 3D reconstruction of the skull of Toumai. A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp.(AFP/MPFT/File)
    Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating AFP - Mon Sep 1, 7:58 PM ET

    PARIS (AFP) - A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp.

  9. Hanna Headed Toward East Coast weather.com - Thu Sep 4, 6:06 PM ET

  10. Space shuttle Atlantis moves slowly on a six-hour journey to pad 39A in preparation for the upcoming STS-125 mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. Atlantis is scheduled to launch Oct. 8.(AP Photo/John Raoux)
    NASA moves space shuttle Atlantis to launch pad AP - Thu Sep 4, 2:55 PM ET

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA moved shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad on Thursday for a flight next month to the Hubble Space Telescope after being waylaid by a pair of tropical storms.

  11. Closest Look Yet at Milky Way's Black Hole SPACE.com - Wed Sep 3, 1:15 PM ET

    If it looks like a black hole, and acts like a black hole, it's probably a black hole.

  12. Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri from India, answers journalist's questions during a press conference prior to the closing of the 29th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and its 20th anniversary in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)
    Experts offer scaled-back sea level rise forecast Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 5:10 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Worldwide sea levels may rise by about 2.6 to 6.6 feet by 2100 thanks to global warming, but dire predictions of larger increases seem unrealistic, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.

  13. Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US AP - Thu Sep 4, 6:06 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.

  14. Hanna Headed Toward Carolinas; Ike A Worry weather.com - 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

  15. NASA workers watch as the space shuttle Atlantis makes the three-mile trip from the vehicle assembly building to launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida September 4, 2008. (Scott Audette/Reuters)
    Shuttle Atlantis hauled to launch pad in Florida Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 6:16 PM ET

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA hauled the space shuttle Atlantis to the seaside launch pad on Thursday, hopeful a trio of storms churning over the Atlantic Ocean will steer clear of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

  16. Dead For Years, Ferrets Finally Become Fathers LiveScience.com - Tue Sep 2, 2:51 PM ET

    Black-footed ferrets at the Smithsonian's National Zoo have birthed two kits sired by males who died in 1999 and 2000.

  17. Why Dewdrops Stay on the Rose LiveScience.com - Thu Sep 4, 6:02 PM ET

    Ah, roses. Their heady fragrance and delicate petals glistening with dew could soften the hardest heart.

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