Bruce Dorminey

Propellers’ role in flight date back to the dawn of engine-driven aviation. But the next generation of propeller-driven aircraft engines will put their rotors back in the spotlight.

Researchers have drilled into the middle of America in hopes of understanding past eras when the Earth burped out huge amounts of greenhouse gases.

Efforts to create a suitable habitat for a striking bird that may or may not be extinct continue a half decade after its reported but uncorroborated resurrection.

In an interview with Miller-McCune.com, meteorologist Kevin Trenberth examines the world’s recently wacky weather and whether it’s a sign of climate change or just routine variability.

Financial theorist and trade historian William J. Bernstein portrays globalization as inevitable and ultimately more benign than malign.

Having survived an extinction scare a century ago, the world’s largest waterfowl is stalked by the remnants of past shotgun blasts.

A larger-than-Rushmore size granite memorial to the famous Sioux warrior has been under construction since 1948, but is that really what the Sioux residents in the area need?

North America’s grasslands filled an ecological role that goes mostly unfilled in their hugely reduced state.

Hands-off care of the forests around Mount Rushmore may have created a sweet spot for an ancient enemy of the Ponderosa pine — the mountain pine beetle.

Pushed by human development onto the endangered list, the American wood stork is wading back to its historical haunts in the swampy Southeast.

A new satellite will measure to the centimeter just how far gone, or going, the Arctic ice cap really is.

Jacob Zuma says the World Cup can score an economic goal for his country, but a collection of international astronomers meeting in his backyard have a starry-eyed yet down-to-earth suggestion for the developing world.

Giant rocks or snowballs in space, while more likely to hit in Hollywood than anywhere else on Earth, remain a threat that policymakers are taking seriously.

Understanding bears’ success at dozing through foodless winters may help human medical care or even impact interstellar flight.

Exceptionally cold temperatures and a vicious bacterium are giving the Sunshine State’s citrus trees a battle, but science in on the oranges’ side.

From forest trails to NASA missions, researchers are trying to get a handle on what ‘old growth’ means and how it can be saved.

The eponymous highlights of Glacier National Park are fast disappearing.

Floating solar cells far above Earth and beaming the energy to the grid has shifted from loony to funded.

The looming LCROSS mission’s lunar bomb-run could spur humankind’s effort to live on the moon — if it does find reasonable quantities of water.

The lure of colonizing space has moved from science fiction to the hard work of figuring out how to do it and what we get out of it.

As summer comes to a close in the Northern Hemisphere, we take a look at the benefits of the unofficial required beverage for the Southern United States.

In preparation for colonizing space, a crack crew of middle-aged rats is colonizing a patch of Barcelona.

New ground and satellite observations will take discussion about geomagnetic pole reversals away from the talk radio shamans and Hollywood schlockmeisters, and give it back to the scientists.

Before hitting the road this summer, you might take a page from the president’s campaign playbook and make sure your tires really are properly inflated.

A European satellite scheduled to launch today will provide hard data on rising seas.