A respected international scientific body will review the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said.

AP - Another snowy day was expected over the central part of the country Wednesday as two low pressure systems were forecast to combine over the Plains.

SPACE.com - China has selected two military air transport pilots as its first female astronauts, the country's state media reported Wednesday. The only hitch? The women had to be hitched – as in married – to make the cut.

LiveScience.com - Mapping the connections among brain cells could someday prove as revolutionary as mapping the human genome. But tracing each synaptic connection between neurons - essentially a manual effort so far - has proven painstakingly slow. To approach a thorough mapping, researchers will have to develop a computer-automated process.

The government has no immediate plans to sell stake in state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Oil Secretary S. Sundareshan told reporters on Wednesday.

Reuters - Undeterred by terrifying memories of a roaring tsunami that nearly killed him, Chilean fisherman Herne Pezo hammers away at his tiny boat, yearning to return to sea as soon as it's fixed.

(Nova rejects the science of anthropogenic global warming, which doesn't change her point.) Given that kind of public mega-money invested in climate science

The study, led by scientists at the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology, is to be published Thursday in the journal Science Express.

and Strategic Development, will present at the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association (WBBA) Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference.

Using 2004 trade data from 57 industry sectors and 113 countries and regions, researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science constructed a global model