In a briefing to reporters December 28, Lockheed Martin Space Systems announced it expects shortly to finish building External Tank 120, which will launch with the first shuttle to return to flight.

The past year saw some Lawrence residents dispatched to the war zones of Iraq. There were bitter divisions in a presidential election and a controversial ban on cigarette smoking in the city’s public ...

Canadian bear researcher Charlie Russell knew it was dangerous to set up shop in Kamchatka—a frontier of lawless poachers, ruthless kingpins, and 10,000 wild grizzlies. But when up to 20 of his ...

Dec. 18, 2004 — The Food and Drug Administration says a large study has shown no increased survival among patients taking a newly approved drug against lung cancer. The drug, called Iressa, is ...

EVANSVILLE — When the great snowstorm of 2004 slammed into the Tri-State, forecaster Christine Wielgos was hunkered down at the National Weather Service’s Paducah, Kentucky, office trying to keep ...

A group of just nine climate scientists is trying to change the media coverage of their discipline. Thanks to an ongoing revolution in electronic news, they might just succeed.

The race for king of the 11 p.m. newscast in Los Angeles just got more interesting. For the first time in 11 years, KABC-TV Channel 7 came close to tying KNBC-TV Channel 4 for first place in local ...

Participants in an international forum last month were appropriately fired up about the opportunities for the poorest countries that are provided by information technologies. The attitudes of ...