Science & Environment
Brazil floods force more than 40,000 to flee homes
Intense rain and flooding in southeast Brazil have killed at least six people and forced 40,000 more to leave their homes.US astronauts embark on spacewalk
Astronauts from the U.S. space agency will begin a series of spacewalks Saturday to repair a faulty pump on the International Space ...Judge rules NSA phone data program is likely unconstitutional
A U.S. judge says the government\'s secret collection of telephone records from millions of Americans is likely unconstitutional.Antarctica sees coldest weather ever recorded on Earth
Temperatures in Antarctica hit a record low of minus 93 degrees Celsius in August 2010, according to scientists.Chemical weapons watchdog receives Nobel Peace Prize
The head of a watchdog group that is trying to rid the world of chemical weapons has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize ...3 US scientists win 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry
Three U.S. scientists won the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for pioneering work on computer programs that simulate complex chemical processes ...Typhoon Fitow leaves 6 dead in China
Six people were killed, and 4 others missing as Typhoon Fitow hit east China\'s Zhejiang Province, affecting more than three million people.Two Americans, German win Nobel medicine prize
Two Americans and a German won the 2013 Nobel medicine prize on Monday for their work on how hormones and enzymes are ...Powerful Typhoon Fitow hits eastern China
Typhoon Fitow hit China\'s east coast with winds up to 151 kilometers per hour killing at least two people early on Monday ...China issues highest alert for Typhoon Fitow
Hundreds of thousands of people in southeast China were evacuated and fishing vessels called back to shore on Sunday because of an ...




