SCIENCE

45 years ago, Apollo 11 blasted off into space

By Ariel Min

Forty-five years ago today, the historic liftoff of Apollo 11 was broadcast around the country as America sent the first humans to the moon.

Scientific journal Nature retracts controversial stem cell papers

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

Last week, the scientific journal Nature retracted two papers which claimed that skin cells could be turned into stem cells.

Great white shark attacks swimmer off California coast

By Elisabeth Ponsot

Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Rick Flores told the Associated Press that the victim was bitten on the upper right side of his body and had suffered puncture wounds.

Take a tour of mission leader Fabien Cousteau's underwater lab

By PBS News Hour

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Aquanaut Fabien Cousteau's 31-day mission underwater

By Hari Sreenivasan

Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the legendary underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau, is part of the team spending more than a month beneath the waves at FIU's Aquarius Lab.

How to 3-D print a dinosaur

By Colleen Shalby

The Smithsonian's Digitization Program is 3-D scanning and printing the more than 200 bones of the Nation's T.rex, one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons ever discovered.

So you want to create your own Rubik's Cube

By Tracy Wholf

In honor of four decades of the Rubik’s Cube, Google has created a “Chrome Lab” where you can build your own Rubik’s Cube.

Dinosaurs were neither cold-blooded nor warm-blooded, study says

By Justin Scuiletti

New research published Friday by the University of New Mexico postulates that dinosaurs were not cold-blooded creatures as previously believed, yet not warm-blooded like mammals either. Instead, the study claims that dinosaurs were mesothermic -- an intermediate stage…

World's largest ocean may lie below the ocean floor

By Hari Sreenivasan, Vic Pasquantonio

A study in Science reveals that a massive reservoir of water -- in its molecular form -- may lie hundreds of miles below the earth’s surface and may hold more water than the earth’s oceans.