In a briefing to reporters December 28, Lockheed Martin Space Systems announced it expects shortly to finish building External Tank 120, which will launch with the first shuttle to return to flight.

The past year saw some Lawrence residents dispatched to the war zones of Iraq. There were bitter divisions in a presidential election and a controversial ban on cigarette smoking in the city’s public ...

Canadian bear researcher Charlie Russell knew it was dangerous to set up shop in Kamchatka—a frontier of lawless poachers, ruthless kingpins, and 10,000 wild grizzlies. But when up to 20 of his ...

For Wall Street, it was better late than never: The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a 3 1/2 -year high Tuesday, becoming the last major market index to top its best levels of last winter. The ...

Dec. 18, 2004 — The Food and Drug Administration says a large study has shown no increased survival among patients taking a newly approved drug against lung cancer. The drug, called Iressa, is ...

EVANSVILLE — When the great snowstorm of 2004 slammed into the Tri-State, forecaster Christine Wielgos was hunkered down at the National Weather Service’s Paducah, Kentucky, office trying to keep ...

A group of just nine climate scientists is trying to change the media coverage of their discipline. Thanks to an ongoing revolution in electronic news, they might just succeed.

The voices of religion are more prominent and influential than they have been for many decades. Researchers, religious and otherwise, need to come to terms with this, while noting that some dogma is ...