Researchers at the US Geological Survey (USGS) has concluded that last year's seasonal El Nino was responsible for severe erosion along the West Coast during the winter and could be an indicator of things to come.
The United States and the European Union slammed China's partial easing of export control of the rare earth minerals on Thursday.
The General Assembly of the United Nations gave the green light to the candidacy of South Sudan as the 193rd member state after declaring its independence from Sudan on July 9th.
Bastille Day 2011 celebrations are under way in France as Parisians take to the Champs-Élysées to celebrate Fête Nationale
China eased export curbs for rare earths on Thursday, restoring it to near-2010 levels in a bid to appease its trading partners, but the European Union said the measure did not go far enough to address concerns of stable supplies.
A mysterious long X-ray tail spanning more than 4 light years across may be stretching away from a spinning neutron star, or pulsar, according to astronomers who discovered the event using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
South Sudan declared its independence and became the newest country in the world. This move isn't much of a surprise because it's part of a treaty signed six years ago to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
The U.S. registered its 19th driest and 26th warmest June on record, according to scientists at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
According to a research published online on July 10 in the journal Natural Geoscience, an ancient 56 million-year-old landscape has been found submerged beneath the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Orkney-Shetland Islands and is being likened to the mysterious lost city of Atlantis.
The hacker has built his own iPad 3 by combining old laptop parts and a touchscreen.
Chinese most senior military commander has criticized the U.S. for its excessive spending on defense and also blamed Washington for rising tensions in the South China Sea.
The skull of one of the largest sea monsters ever found on earth has been unveiled to the public on Friday. Scientists described the creature, which is called pliosaur, as the most fearsome predator ever unearthed.
Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed off its seaside launch pad on Friday, rising atop a tower of smoke and flames as it left Earth on the final flight of the U.S. space shuttle program.
Space shuttle Atlantis thundered off its seaside launch pad Friday, rising atop a tower of smoke and flames as it left Earth on the final flight of the U.S. space shuttle program.
The death throes of massive stars that have gone supernova are the answer to the long-standing puzzle of what supplied our early universe with dust, according to a new study.
It is not so often that the world greets a new nation into its fold, but that will be the case this Saturday when South Sudan becomes the UN’s 193rd member and the African Union’s 54th.
Honduran police have arrested former Miss Honduras 2009 on charges of money laundering. She failed to declare the equivalent of $47,000 while entering the country.
China is well within its rights, legally and morally, to limit rare earth exports, argued an article in Chinese state media on Thursday, days after the World Trade Organization ruled against China on its curbs of raw materials exports.
The tide of illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. is receding, as many Mexicans choose to pursue careers in their home country, whose economy has improved substantially in the past five years.
A boat traveling between Sudan and Saudi Arabia caught fire, killing most of the refugees on board.
China will reform its export of rare earths based in part on World Trade Organization rules, state media reported on Wednesday, a day after the global trade governing body ruled against its curbs on exports.
Almost 200 illegal African migrants have drowned to death when their boat sunk in the Red Sea off the Sudanese coast, according to Sudan’s media.
