The March 11 offshore 9.0-scale earthquake pushed a massive surge of water over Japan that decimated large areas of its coast and killed thousands of inhabitants. The human toll is not yet fully known, but amidst this devastating tragedy lie lessons about the power of earth and water.

Enceladus, a small moon that orbits in the E-ring of the planet Saturn, has provided a number of surprising astronomical discoveries in recent years. A new report shows it once again defying expectations. Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have found that it produces far more heat than they ever predicted.

Has alien life really been found on a meteorite?

A recent title in Nature News provides a succinct answer: "The aliens haven't landed."¹ The article offered a sweeping refutation of NASA scientist Richard Hoover's claim that extraterrestrial microscopic bacteria fossils were found in a carbonaceous meteorite.

Researchers have constructed a new evolutionary tree for flies that purports to show which types of fly likely evolved into other types.