SCIENCE

The mercury's rising and summer's in full swing. It's the season to cook outdoors, camp under the stars, and drive off into the sunset for a bit of time out.

A new study where embryonic stem cells were turned into functioning neurons and successful implanted into the brains of laboratory mice represents a crucial step toward deploying customized cells to repair damaged or diseased brains.

Test your knowledge: What duo hosted the parade nearly as long as Al Roker? What happens to all those balloons in the off-season?

Curiosity, a state-of-the-art rover that will be launched on Nov. 26 with the Mars Science Laboratory probe, will attempt to answer the question on whether life can or could have lived in the Red Planet.

Polar ice sheets have accelerated their retreat while global temperatures added up 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since the onset of frenetic industrial activities, prompting scientists to suggest that time may be running out to arrest the ill-effects of climate change.

Could Pluto's icy surface hide an ocean underneath? This question and other mysteries surrounding the distant object, once considered the farthest planet from the sun, may be answered when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in 2015.

NASA's newest satellite from the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) recently took incredible high-resolution images of Earth covering the eastern area of North America until the northern part of Venezuela.

Russia’s space officials have considered the Phobos-Grunt mission, which aimed to bring soil from a Martian moon back to Earth, “lost”.

Psychopaths are the stuff of suspense movies. Painted as cold and calculating, they can dispatch people without any trace of remorse. But that depiction in the movies may not be purely fictitious as research finds evidence inside the brains of psychopaths.

A 4-inch piece of debris from the destroyed Chinese Fengyun 1C was seen to head towards the International Space Station prompting NASA’s Mission Control to warn the Expedition 30 crew of a possible collision.

Thanksgiving is already here, and right this very moment people are all busy grabbing a turkey, getting ingredients, and of course, looking for stretchable pants to wear for dinner. It's no secret that almost everyone indulges a little too far every year in this joyous holiday. But like a hangover, people live to regret the fact that they overate the next day.

Some people cannot stand coffee. They're either not used to its taste, or didn't form the habit of drinking it to begin with. However, with new research arising, some people, more specifically women, might want to pick up a cup and start the habit.

A new generation robotic lander capable of performing science and exploration research on the moon, asteroids or on Mars will soon be developed with the successful completion of the final flight in a series of tests for the robotic lander prototype.

Lighting Sprites are colorful bursts of electricity that can stretch for more than 95 kilometers (58 miles) from cloud tops. These mysterious and beautiful lightning phenomena had only been captured in photos in 1994 and since then scientists haven't been able to look away from the light show the upper atmosphere provides. Now scientists from Tel Aviv University are proposing that lighting sprites can even be found in outer space.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is on track for launch in 2018 with the approval of the US Congress of the 2012 budget for NASA, which includes $530 million for the JWST.

Imagine one day going to an elevator and pressing the button for the top floor but instead of getting off at the penthouse or even the roof of the building, you'll be stepping out into outer space.

Science enthusiasts should mark May 20, 2012 in their calendars as this is the date of a spectacular annular (“ring”) eclipse that will be visible from parts of eight western U. S. states and in many other countries all over the world.

Daniel, the dog who survived the gas chamber at a county pound in Alabama has found his new forever home in New Jersey.

What dogs, cats even hummingbirds do when they get wet

E.T. may actually live in a world that is nothing like Earth. Astronomers are now thinking of expanding the habitability zone of a planet to include a wider set of criteria.

Astronomers have discovered alien planet number 700 and the number are expected to pile up as scientists improve their planet-hunting techniques.

Fossils evidence indicates that dinosaurs ate the first birds, as scientists long suspected. Paleontologists have seen a fossil bird inside a dinosaur’s stomach making it the first known evidence that dinosaurs ate their winged relatives.

Climate scientists are studying the underlying causes of previous mass extinction events to gain a better understanding of what may happen as greenhouse gas emissions raise global temperatures.

Meditating is a practice that enables people to go to a deeper state of relaxation and awareness. It has been practices for the longest times by monks, and is now fast becoming a way of life for people practicing the peaceful state.

Acne is a problem that most teenagers go through with shame and ridicule. And to treat this problem, teenagers, with their parents, often resort to oral antibiotics - little do they know that that is just the start of another problem.

My new dog is awesome. But I have a two-week vacation coming up, and I need to find a place for him while I'm away. How do I find a good boarding facility?

Eating is an essential part of life; it's simple and pretty straight-forward. The global population eating though is where it gets complicated. Supplying literally billions of people with food is tricky when the population keeps on growing.

Once upon a DogTime, we adopted a cat.

Some seals can trace and go back to where they were born even after years of spending their lives on the ocean, says the British Antarctic Survey Team. Find out more by reading the article.