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Hunted last year in Montana and Idaho, the Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf (Canis lupus) is once again on the federal endangered species list. Yesterday, a federal judge in...

(Energy experts Robert Socolow and Edward Rubin have commented below.) The Department of Energy's (DOE's) original FutureGen plan, announced in 2003, was to build a near-zero-emissions coal power plant that...

UPDATE: A spokesperson for Science has confirmed that in response to a report recommending the retraction of a paper describing the so-called reactome array, it has sent a letter...

President Barack Obama has nominated Cora Marrett to be deputy director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). A sociologist and longtime administrator at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Marrett...

To stop the continuing decline of endangered Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, federal scientists are calling for closures of some Alaskan fisheries beginning January 2011....

In a move that would bring more climate know-how into the inner circle of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) chief Jane Lubchenco, the White House today nominated Scott...

In the latest twist in the protracted debate over the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research, U.S. senators on 3 August introduced the Great Ape Protection Act, an identical...

The overall mood at the White House yesterday was upbeat with the news that there’s seemingly less of a risk of ecological impacts of oil and that the well is...

University of Southern California (USC) neuroscientist Roberta Diaz Brinton is among 13 winners of the 2010 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation's second highest civilian honor. Brinton is being honored...

Fully three-quarters of the estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil that spewed from BP's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico bypassed efforts to collect it or burn it...