NASA’s Messenger spacecraft will do a flyby of Mercury on Tuesday, and a University of Colorado spectrometer will take advantage of the opportunity to analyze a few select targets such as surface craters.
With world leaders converging in New York for a U.N. summit, a pressing issue threatens to overwhelm the conference.
It’s the first day of fall, although you wouldn’t know it from the potential snow looming in the forecast.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus unveiled his official plan for health care reform on Wednesday, and it closely matches the initial framework he sent out last week.
Avast ye scurvy dogs: Sept. 19 be Talk Like a Pirate Day, so pull out yer eyepatch and find a parrot to perch on yer shoulder.
Actor Patrick Swayze’s tragic death from pancreatic cancer has called attention once again to this stealthy and extremely deadly form of the disease.
The now infamous “You lie!” outburst by Rep. Joe Wilson last week during Barack Obama’s speech to Congress on health care reform seems to have triggered an outbreak of similarly bad behavior.
Cindy is a native of the great state of Kansas (no Wizard of Oz jokes, please) and has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Colorado and a bachelor's degree in English and theater from Washburn University. She's a science junkie and enjoys contemplating the mysteries of the universe in her spare time.