Catherine Griffin : Science World Report

May 16, 2013 03:05 PM EDT

Scary Asteroid the Size of Nine Cruise Ships will Sail Past Earth in May

There are some scary things out there in space, and an asteroid the size of nine cruise ships is one of them. NASA officials have announced that the massive asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31.

May 16, 2013 02:29 PM EDT

Mars Makes an Impact: Scientists Discover Hundreds of Craters on Red Planet

Mars is making less of an impact--at least as far as its craters are concerned. Scientists have discovered that space rocks are smashing into the Red Planet far less frequently than once thought.

May 16, 2013 01:07 PM EDT

Weather on the Outer Planets of Uranus and Neptune: The Limits of Extreme Winds

Uranus and Neptune are home to some of the most extreme winds that can be found in our solar system. Now, researchers have set an upper limit for the thickness of jet streams on the planets; they've learned a little bit more about the surface weather on these two worlds.

May 16, 2013 12:30 PM EDT

Scientists Agree Humans Causing Climate Change is Real--Again (Video)

Scientists agree that humans are causing climate change--again. They took an extensive survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers and have found that there was a major consensus when it came to deciding whether or not climate change was occurring--a total of 97 percent.

May 16, 2013 11:45 AM EDT

Giant Black Hole and Speeding Jets Captured in New NASA Image

Far from Earth, a massive black hole resides in the center of a galaxy known as 4C+29.30. There, it spews two speeding jets of particles into space. Now, astronomers have captured this black hole and its jets in a spectacular image.

May 16, 2013 10:53 AM EDT

Interactive Map Reveals Locations of World's Most Extraordinary and Endangered Species

Some of the world's most unique and extraordinary species are also the most endangered. Now, scientists have created an interactive map that reveals exactly what regions contain the highest concentrations of these species.

May 16, 2013 10:03 AM EDT

Embryonic Stem Cells Created from Human Skin: Breakthrough in Cloning Research

Scientists have successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to become embryonic stem cells, which are capable of transforming into any other cell type in the body. The new technique could also be considered a new method for cloning stem cells.

May 16, 2013 09:17 AM EDT

How to Survive the Relentless Cicada Swarm in New Haven: Eat Them (Recipes)

After 17 years of lurking beneath the ground, millions of cicadas are popping out of the dirt like six-legged daisies. Now, there's only one thing that we can do to stop the relentless swarm: eat them.

May 16, 2013 08:39 AM EDT

NASA and Google Team Up with Speedy D-Wave Quantum Computer

NASA and Google are teaming up to launch a new laboratory that's focused on advancing machine learning, and which will utilize a speedy quantum computer.

May 16, 2013 08:03 AM EDT

Ruins of Lost City Hide Deep Within Dense Honduras Rain Forest

Deep within the dense rainforests of Honduras, trees cloak the archaeological remains of an ancient city, abandoned and crumbling. Now, researchers have found a way to penetrate that dense cloak and learn a little bit more about the city that once flourished in Central America.

May 15, 2013 03:40 PM EDT

World's Fish Species Have Been Migrating to Cooler Water for Decades: Impact of Climate Change

Fish and other sea life are migrating toward the Earth's poles--and have been doing so for more than three decades. This mass migration seems to point to a changing landscape that has drastically been impacted by warming seas.

May 15, 2013 02:57 PM EDT

African Fossils Reveal Evolutionary Split Between Old World Monkeys and Apes

Ancient African fossils may have solved an evolutionary mystery. Researchers have discovered remains that reveal new information about the evolution of primates, and could show the oldest evidence of a split between Old World Monkeys and apes.