MELBOURNE, Fla. – A central Florida boy spent his 9th birthday in a hospital, recovering from shark bites. Christian Sanhueza was boogieboarding in the Atlantic Ocean near Patrick Air Force Base on Saturday afternoon when his mother heard his screams. Then the boy vanished in the waves. Melissa Sanhueza told …
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Every four years, a new official soccer ball is designed for and used during World Cup matches. And every four years, players — and this time even scientists — criticize the new ball. “It’s a little sad that the World Cup has balls of such poor quality,” Iker Casillas of …
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A scientific branch of the Vatican is touting a climate-change report that fears for the fate of the world’s glaciers, appearing to support an erroneous conclusion from the United Nations’ climate panel that skeptics have loudly debunked. But the Vatican’s authors are some of the same people responsible for the …
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They’re trying to save the world — one house at a time. Thousands of college students around the country have spent the past two years designing and building entire solar-powered homes to compete in the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. later this year. The list …
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