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The fully integrated spacecraft and science instrument for NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is seen in a clean room at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Sunnyvale, California facility in this undated NASA handout photo.

NASA's IRIS Eyes Our Sun

Project IRIS will send a small satellite that will observe the way solar material heats up as it rises through sun's lower atmosphere More

New Award Could Become Nobel for Engineering

First award, which was given by Queen Elizabeth, went to five men who invented the Internet More

Parts of the code of the newly discovered computer virus Flame, May 30, 2012, in Munich.

Stuxnet: An Effective Cyberwar Weapon

Computer virus infected Iran's Natanz nuclear facility in 2010, destroying electric motors and disabling as many as 1,000 centrifugesMore

Pumpkin, a 24-year-old chimpanzee at the Alamogordo Primate Facility, N.M., loves coconuts and kiddie swimming pools. APF is a chimpanzee reserve where no research is conducted. (photo credit: NIH)

US Lab to Reduce Biomedical Testing on Chimpanzees

Up to 310 chimpanzees could be retired from government agency laboratories More

This artist's concept shows NASA's two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around our sun. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA Probe Finds New Zone at Doorstep to Interstellar Space

Reports last summer that long-lived Voyager 1 had finally left solar system turned out to be a bit premature, scientists said on Thursday More

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This undated image provided by Merck & Co., shows a cross section of a normal brain (right) and one of a brain damaged by advanced Alzheimer's disease, December 3, 2012

Researchers Identify Potential Cause of Alzheimer's Damage

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center identify brain protein that may have a role in causing the dementia in Alzheimer's disease

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History "Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code" exhibit plan

Smithsonian Genome Exhibit Unlocks 21st Century Science of Life

New exhibit at National Museum of Natural History in Washington explores extraordinary impact genomes are having on science, medicine and nature

In this undated photo provided by Ludovic Orlando via Nature, two pieces of a 700,000-year-old horse metapodial bone, just before being extracted for ancient DNA, are shown. From a tiny fossil bone found in the frozen Yukon, scientists have deciphered th

Scientists Map 700,000-Year-Old Horse Genome

It the oldest mapped genome of any animal by 10 times

Varying stem rust epidemics on wheat stems (Photo: Evans Lagudah & Zakkie Pretorius)

Genes Found to Fight Wheat Disease

Fungal disease called stem rust threatens the crop worldwide

FILE - Radio telescope dishes of the KAT-7 Array at the proposed South African site for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope near Carnavon in the country's remote Northern Cape province, May 17, 2012.

Kenya Repurposing Satellite Dishes for Space Exploration

Construction of a huge radio telescope in South Africa is giving a boost to science and space industries in Kenya

India’s Railway Used as Mobile Classroom

India Uses Railway as Mobile Science Classroom

Postgraduates teach on 'Science Express' train as it travels 19,000 km throughout nation, with 10 millionth visitor expected by year's end

Astronauts (L-R) Zhang Xiaoguang, Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping salute after returning to earth in the re-entry capsule of China's Shenzhou-10 spacecraft at its main landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 26, 2013.

China Completes Longest Manned Space Mission

Capsule of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft touched down safely early Wednesday in China's remote Inner Mongolia region, with 3 astronauts aboard

A humpback whale jumps at a whale watching point, off Okinawa, southwestern Japan, in this file photo.

Australia Urges UN Court to Ban Japan Whale Hunt

Japan aims to catch 1,000 whales during its annual hunt for what it calls research purposes

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New Award Could Become Nobel for Engineering

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has launched a global prize for engineering that some people involved hope will become the engineering equivalent of the Nobel Prize for scientific achievement. The queen presented the first award to five men who invented the Internet and developed the ways one third of the world’s population uses it. VOA’s Al Pessin reports from London.

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