Science and Tech

Astronomers around the world are all agog over an immense scar larger than the Pacific Ocean that has suddenly appeared on the surface of Jupiter.
Some unknown comet or asteroid must have just crashed into the giant planet's upper atmosphere to cause the scar, the astronomers believe.

Whether a dog gives a friendly yap or an angry snarl, baby can tell how Fido is feeling.
A new study conducted by researchers at Brigham Young University found that infants -- some just 6 months old -- could match the sound of a happy bark with a photo of a dog that looked friendly. Conversely, the youngsters paired an angry growl with a photo of a threatening-looking dog.

For eons, people have reached out to the Almighty with prayers and supplications. Soon they might be able to use their iPhones.
Fair Oaks, Calif. teenager Allen Wright thought up an application for the Apple iPhone called "A Note to God."

You can orbit the moon and take narrated video tours of the Apollo lunar landings as part of Google Inc.'s latest mission into space.
The Internet company enhanced its 3-D mapping service this week with imagery of the moon, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's giant step for mankind.

You don't have to look to the stars to see how America's space program has touched your daily life. Look at your cell phone, your tennis shoes, your tool belt, your computer or television.
Daniel Lockney, editor of Spinoff, a NASA publication since 1976, makes it his job to inform readers of the benefits of space technology, from medicine to industry to entertainment.

From time to time, Bill Borucki wanders into a large white structure that looms like a stranded blimp near his office at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., and takes a look at one of the striking exhibits there.

Utah's rich sandstone yields one new Cretaceous-era dinosaur species after another, but the latest one, a pot-bellied herbivore with a meat-eating ancestry, is so strange it took nearly a decade to properly describe and name it.

In a cluster of rather drab buildings overlooking the Charles River, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are incubating a tiny technology that packs an enormous punch.

When college student Kelsey Quickstad went to Spain to study for a semester, she rarely used the phone to call her parents in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She didn't have to. They communicated almost daily by Web cam, Skype's Internet telephone service or instant message.

A new film imagines lesbians conceiving with sperm derived from each other's stem cells -- and the science may not be far-fetched.
In the new Canadian film "The Baby Formula," two lesbians become pregnant using sperm derived from each other's stem cells.