A week-old giant panda cub died at the National Zoo in the US capital, just days after it was seen squealing and squirming, officials said.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 23, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 5

University of Otago researchers working in remote Cambodian mountains are shedding new light on the lost history of an unidentified people by studying their enigmatic burial rituals.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 09, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0

Google's stock climbed to a new high Friday as Wall Street's best known indexes approached record territory, too.

Technology - Business

Feb 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

Research by US Forest Service scientists forecasts profound changes over the next 50 years in the summer range of the endangered Indiana bat. In an article published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, Forest Service Southe ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 28, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(AP)—Seventeen leading universities in the U.S. and abroad will start offering free cyber courses through the online education platform Coursera, the company said Wednesday.

Technology - Internet

Sep 19, 2012 4 / 5 (5) 2

Radical changes, possibly the biggest to ever hit Windows PCs, are going to dramatically alter the status quo of computing a week from Friday.

Technology - Software

Oct 22, 2012 1 / 5 (4) 3

The news is out that there's a mountain lion living in Griffith Park these days, but what you may not know is why he branched out from his home in the west Santa Monica Mountains. Competition there is fierce—and, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 27, 2012 not rated yet 0

After experiencing years of population decline on the West Coast, a recent study examining fisher populations found that—at least in the southern Sierra Nevada—the animal's numbers appear to be stable.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 28, 2013 not rated yet 0

To reach one of the last wild populations of the mountain yellow-legged frog on Earth, Adam Backlin and Elizabeth Gallegos tramped down a no-nonsense trail, scaled cliffs and barged through nettles along a vein of water in ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 18, 2012 2.5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—For most of the past decade, Dr. Wan Yang has spent his summers in the Bogda Mountains in northwest China, collecting rock samples that predate dinosaurs by millions of years in an effort to ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 18, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

On the coast of Ecuador, along the Pacific Ocean, on the western side of the Andes Mountains, lies the Choco rain forest. Here, Jordan Karubian, his students and local residents, whom he's enlisted as "environmental ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 01, 2012 not rated yet 0

Will future conservation policies have to take account of the genetic diversity within each species ? A large-scale study into plants found at high altitude throughout the Alps and the Carpathians, has enabled ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 08, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Home to the famed mountain gorillas, Africa's oldest national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been overrun by armed groups who have slaughtered wildlife and scared off much-needed tourists.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 24, 2012 not rated yet 0

The latest Mars destination is a giant crater near the equator with an odd feature: a mountain rising from the crater floor.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Aug 04, 2012 3.3 / 5 (3) 1

(Phys.org) —Many parks and protected areas around the world are being assailed by poachers and encroachers, but a new study suggests scientific research in the parks helps to reduce such threats.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0