Scientists meeting in San Francisco a week ago heard a startling prediction: The seemingly indestructible snows of Kilimanjaro may well disappear in the next 15 years. To most mainstream scientists,

A team of Japanese physicists has reported making a resistance-free electrical conductor from a cheap metallic compound at a record high temperature, opening a new horizon in efforts to realize the

The ice cap atop Mount Kilmanjaro, which for thousands of years has floated like a cool beacon over the shimmering equatorial plain of Tanzania, is retreating at such a pace that it will disappear in

Global warming is expected to increase crop yields in temperate northern regions, harming agriculture in the tropics and further widening the gap between rich, industrialized countries and poor

Celera Genomics Corp., which announced this week that its scientists had published a detailed map and description of the human genome, says it has also deciphered the entire genetic code of a

Nearly 60 years into the Atomic Age, Russia has found itself with a huge stockpile of nuclear waste from its own reactors and insufficient funds to handle it. Even without importing waste, some

In Florida, conservationists are fighting to restore remnants of imposing ancient forests of centuries-old cypress trees around the Everglades swamp. The state and federal governments have planned to

Physicists find flaw in the standard model : Precise observations of subatomic particles have uncovered a serious discrepancy with the theories that explain the known particles and forces that shape

Landing surveyor craft on a space rock : In a grand finale to a year long mission, NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezous Shoemaker's spacecraft will attempt the first landing ever on the surface of an

Scientists have shown for the first time that when simple chemicals are exposed to the harsh conditions of deep space, the molecules spontaneously arrange themselves into hollow structures that look