Operators of Spirit - one of the seemingly indestructible Mars Rovers - on Tuesday tried to unwedge it from the sand trap it’s been stuck in for months.

The New York Times has a good update on the mission, which is now…

A study that analyzed 85,000 teeth collected from St. Louis children in the 1960’s shows that male donors who died of cancer as adults had more than double the amount of a radioactive isotope created by nuclear fallout than healthy…

We all know that fire once played an integral role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. Then Smokey Bear came along and sort of screwed it all up.

But fortunately for the Eastern collared lizard, fire has returned to the Ozark National Scenic Riverways where…

Black hole

An international team of scientists that includes two Washington University researchers have discovered very high energy gamma rays coming from an area close to a supermassive black hole.

The discovery took place in a galaxy, M87, which is about 50 million light…

Normal fruit flies

The next time you struggle to fall asleep, consider the fruit flies Washington University researchers have created to be insomniacs. Sleeplessness is in their genes.

Apparently, normal flies get about 12 hours of sleep a day. Or rather, when it…