Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world's best human "Jeopardy!" champions, is going to college.

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Jan 30, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 6

Scientists studying the Atlantic sturgeon, one of the oldest species of fish in the world, have found evidence that the James River population in Virginia spawns in the fall, according to scientists at the Virginia Commonwealth ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 15, 2012 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- In a city understandably wary of low-flying aircraft, New Yorkers and tourists alike watched with joy and excitement Friday as space shuttle Enterprise sailed over the skyline on its final flight ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 27, 2012 not rated yet 4

(AP) -- Early settlers called the Susquehanna River "a mile wide and a foot deep." It's just a folk saying, but it hints at the forces behind a river that is, in fact, exceptionally likely to flood.

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 10, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 2

People are swimming in the Hudson again, and while clumps of sewage rarely float by anymore, the water is not reliably clean, says a report released this week from the environmental group Riverkeeper. Four ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 12, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 1

(AP) -- Besides being a researcher in New York's Hudson River Estuary Program, environmental scientist Chris Bowser leads citizen projects that collect reams of data for other scientists.

Other Sciences - Other

May 08, 2011 3 / 5 (2) 0

For 30 years, two General Electric facilities released about 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into New York's Hudson River, devastating and contaminating fish populations. Some 50 years ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 17, 2011 4 / 5 (4) 1 |

General Electric said Thursday it will soon complete a 500-million-dollar toxic waste cleanup project in New York's Hudson river to settle a decades-old battle with US environmental authorities.

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 23, 2010 4 / 5 (2) 1

A first-of-its-kind study that tracked the oceanic migrations of adult Atlantic sturgeon that were caught and tagged in the Hudson River discovered that these fish move vast distances in the Atlantic Ocean, ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 06, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

(AP) -- General Electric Co. on Monday proposed a halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 08, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0

(AP) -- Crews dredging a polluted stretch of the upper Hudson River this year battled high water, old logging debris and unexpected levels of PCB contamination that slowed progress.

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 11, 2009 4 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- Later this month, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of West Texas into New York's "pay toilet."

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 22, 2009 4.5 / 5 (2) 1