Washington, May 13 : Suicid al behaviour is a grim personality trait that reflects self-destructive mental condition. According to a report published this month in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), asthma is a respiratory disease that provokes suicidal thoughts to the level where a person breaks free from the thoughts to actually attempt suicide....

Canberra, May 13 : Microsoft has launched a free downloadable software that can turn any computer into mini Hubble telescopes capable of displaying high resolution images of millions of stars, planets and other celestial...

London, May 13 : Scientists have said that vegetables grown in zero gravity conditions in space can grow up to huge sizes, which could help solve the world's food...

Washington, May 13 : A University of Leicester space scientist has shown the astonishingly overpriced nature of text messaging from mobile phones, by estimating that the service is at least four times more expensive than downloading information from the Hubble Space...

London, May 13 : Japanese astronomers, who returned recently from a space shuttle mission, have said that alien life does exist in the Universe and it would definitely be discovered....

Einstein writes that, although he is a member of the "Jewish people," Judaism for him is, like other religions, "an incarnation of the most childish superstitions." The letter,...

MONTREAL - A Canadian weather station the size of a big shoebox with a tiny Maple Leaf flag and a price tag of $37 million is due to arrive on Mars to help in the search for water. The...

Satellite imagery obtained from NASA will help archeologist Bill Middleton peer into the ancient Mexican past. In a novel archeological application, multi- and hyperspectral data will help build the...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 11:10 CDT The U.S. Department of Energy says up to 20 percent of electricity in the U.S. could come from harnessed wind power by 2030.In the report, aptly titled '20...

Agarose gel electrophoresis" Most teenagers wouldn't have a clue what this scientific term means, but middle school student Andrew Trigiano knows the protocol inside and out. When Andrew was 12,...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 11:43 CDT An autonomous tabletop robot surgeon has taken its first steps toward reality at Duke University; the device could have immediate results in making some...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 11:43 CDT A once-blind dog can now see to chase squirrels to her heart's content, thanks to the new plastic cornea she received in a novel surgery. ...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 11:43 CDT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With just 12 days to go until its Mars arrival, NASA's Phoenix lander is functioning well and on course to be the first mission to...

May 13, 2008 · Inside Mifflin Hall at Fort Lee, Va., 11 students gather in a room that could pass for a pre-med class. A model skeleton stands on wheels in one corner; a partially dissected...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 11:43 CDT A seal has been caught on camera trying to have sex with a penguin. This seems to be the first known example of a sexual escapade between a mammal...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 10:35 CDT A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By Lynn Arave Deseret News Climate change and increasing demand for fresh water are two of the biggest threats to saline lakes worldwide, a marine...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 12:05 CDT BEIJING -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, megaphone in hand, personally directed efforts Tuesday to cope with the most calamitous earthquake to hit China in...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 11:43 CDT Some children dread getting glasses. Researcher Jeffrey Walline repeats some age-old advice for parents: Tell your kids they'll look smarter in...

free access to information and images stitched together from telescopes around the world and in space. People will be able to use their computers to pan across the night sky or zoom in on a...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By Jennifer Feehan, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio May 13--Seneca County commissioners and the six county residents who sued them last year have agreed to cut...

Maharishi University of Management, the educational center of the Transcendental Meditation movement founded by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, an Indian spiritual entrepreneur who died in the...

Albert Einstein described belief in God as "childish superstition" and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer says.The father of relativity,...

Abbott Laboratories reported on Tuesday that it has raised the bar for drug-coated stents and that competitor Boston Scientific is coming up short. The results of Abbott Laboratories ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Nine months ago, NASA's Phoenix probe blasted off for Mars with an unprecedented mission to sample water on another...

giant pandas are safe more than a day after a devastating earthquake isolated the remote, mountainous area from the rest of the world, China's State Forestry Administration has confirmed. ...

Investigators have determined a newborn baby boy who died in Hamilton over the weekend was murdered. Emergency Services responded to 2625 King St. E. just before midnight Sunday and found...

Tourists look at portions of the Dead Sea scrolls on display at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem, Tuesday May 13, 2008. One of the most important of the Dead Sea scrolls is going briefly on...

Senator Romeo Dallaire appears as a witness at the commons foreign affairs subcommittee on the Omar Khadr case on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday May 12, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick...

China stage intricate courtship musicals at frequencies far beyond the range of human hearing, according to a new study. A team of Chinese and American scientists found that the frogs communicate...

Rescue teams with stretchers and gas masks aided radiation-poisoned Torontonians dying on the city's sidewalks yesterday. It was a street-theatre production staged by Greenpeace to show what they...

TORONTO - Abdullah Khadr's mother says she's not surprised the Americans paid Pakistan a bounty to arrest her son. What was surprising, she says, was the amount - half a million dollars. Maha...

In this undated image made available by Bloomsbury Auctions in London Tuesday May 13, 2008, a letter by Albert Einstein outlining his views on God and religion is seen. The handwritten letter is...

MDA ) said Tuesday its Montreal operation has won a US$21-million contract from the Boeing Co. to supply communication technology for the International Space Station. MDA said it will provide...

PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - A towering cloud of hot ash, gas and molten rock spewed miles into the air by a volcano in southern Chile has partially collapsed, raising fears it could smother...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate, in a direct challenge to President Bush, voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government's emergency reserve. ...

Preparing for Velcro USA's 50th anniversary celebration in downtown Manchester, N.H., Tuesday May 13, 2008, Velcro consultant Scott Spradling of Loudon, N.H. left, and Velcro machinist Ron Pepin,...

LONDON - Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core?A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel Prize-winning...

Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002. Alan Boyle covers the physical sciences,...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 12:00 CDT U.S. and Canadian researchers say they have discovered a previously unknown genetic abnormality in an animal model of schizophrenia. Medical scientists...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 12:00 CDT Hundreds of residence evacuated as wildfires engulf partial Florida WASHINGTON, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Parts of Florida were declared in a state of emergency...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 12:00 CDT Hidden Lake, a community near Wake Forest, N.C., has received the prestigious "Green Project of the Year" Award from the National Association of Home...

Any fan of "Star Trek" knows that space travel is not always easy, but Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) wants to make traveling the "final frontier" as simple as turning on your computer. The world's...

Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Microsoft Corp. and leading astronomy institutions like the Adler Planetarium in Chicago on Tuesday will offer a free computer program to put the vast...

SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An experimental gene therapy treatment appears to have helped eight children with a rare and incurable neurological disorder, although it may have been responsible for the...

tornado blew through a heavily polluted former mining town where lead-filled waste is piled into giant mounds, sparking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to check for high lead levels on...

caribou work up quite a hunger during their long migrations. But global warming now has the animals arriving late for dinner—and paying a heavy price. Fewer caribou calves are being born in...

By Debbie Robinson, The Joplin Globe, Mo.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 12--By Debbie Robinson news@joplinglobe.com MIAMI, Okla. -- Tourism officials estimate that the number of hotel rooms in...

May 12, 2008—A Picher, Oklahoma, man describes waiting an "eternity" as a tornado lifted his house with his family inside. They survived, but the twister killed seven.© National Geographic...