First Light for NASA's Planet-hunting Space Telescope

First light for NASA's Kepler space telescope! Finally, systems hosting potential Earth-like planets "...may be observed so well that all the disputes that for so many generations have vexed philosophers are destroyed by visible certainty, and we are liberated from wordy argument …

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The Bush Six to Be Indicted

Spanish prosecutors will seek criminal charges against Alberto Gonzales and five high-ranking Bush administration officials for sanctioning torture at Guantanamo

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Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With Lasers

Scientists develop a technology, based on the system used by the Cold War era "Star Wars" system, that locates and kills malaria carrying mosquitoes.

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Kepler and the Search for Earth-Like Planets

Excellent general coverage of the upcoming Kepler mission to detect Earth like extra-solar planets.

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Jackson to produce Hobbit movies

Peter Jackson, Oscar-winning director of the Lord of the Rings movies, has signed a deal to produce two films based on JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit.

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High Court to Hear D.C. Gun Ban Case

The Supreme Court announced today that it will decide whether the District of Columbia's ban on handguns violates the Constitution, a choice that will put the justices at the center of the controversy over the meaning of the Second Amendment for the first time in nearly 70 years.

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Supreme Court to Hear Second Amendment Case

The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will decide whether the District of Columbia can ban handguns, a case that could produce the most in-depth examination of the constitutional right to ''keep and bear arms'' in nearly 70 years.

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Supreme Court Will Hear Guns Case

The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will decide whether the District of Columbia can ban handguns, a case that could produce the most in-depth examination of the constitutional right to "keep and bear arms" in nearly 70 years.

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Dollars no good for the Taj Mahal

Foreign tourists to many of India's most famous landmarks will no longer be able to pay the entrance fee in dollars, the government says. The ruling is aimed at safeguarding tourism revenues following the recent falls in the dollar.

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Unravelling the skeptics

What do "climate sceptics" believe? What skeptics believe is an important question, because their voices are heard in governments, editors' offices, boardrooms, and - most importantly - the street.

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Natural decline 'hurting lives'

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New Glimpse at Players in Group Led by Cheney - New York Times

Thanks to an unidentified former White House official it is no possible to identify many of the individuals, companies and groups that met secretly with the task force that produced a report in May 2001 calling for accelerated development of domestic oil and gas supplies to deal  …

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Is Cheney Evil or Just a Weasel?

The Dark Lord. Voldemort. Darth Vader. The Shadow President.

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Ellison Compares 9/11 to Reichstag Fire

On Sunday, Fifth District Congressman Keith Ellison found a wildly receptive audience in what might seem an unexpected place: a gathering of Minnesota atheists. "You'll always find this Muslim standing up for your right to be atheists all you want," he told them.

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Plague of bioweapons accidents afflicts the US

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Political battles over the Airborne Laser

Remember the scene in Independence Day where the alien invaders blow up the White House with some sort of interstellar death ray? We Earthlings are still a long, long way from that sort of weaponry--just how far will depend, as so many things do, on budget battles in Washington.

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Parents of America's 'Most severely wounded' soldier have been financially destroyed by the cost of his care.

He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him.

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David Cole explores the limits of the Executive and the line Bush crossed

This article, originally published in December in the Nation, describes the limit ations of the power of the Executive branch of government.

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