As we pass from 2010 to the new year, Congress resumes in its conservative-dominated configuration. This new wave is sustained by a right-wing power base informed by ideologues who would eviscerate the Fourteenth Amendment's promise of equality by restricting voting rights and limiting public expenditures...
Using Mars-like soil taken from Atacama Desert, a study confirms Mars has organics, and Viking found them.
More than 30 years after NASA's Viking landers found no evidence for organic materials on Mars, scientists say a new experiment on Mars-like soil shows Viking did, in fact, hit pay dirt.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sketched a more optimistic view of the economy Friday but said the Fed's $600 billion bond-buying program is needed because unemployment will likely stay elevated for up to five more years.
Bernanke told the Senate Budget Committee that there's rising evidence that a "self-sustaining" recovery is taking...
