The Derek M. Baylis is a 65-foot vessel designed not just for research but to demonstrate how quieter and more fuel-efficient boats can be built.

From the press release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather NASA...

Reuters - Two U.S. forensics experts arrived in Nepal on Sunday to help identify victims of last month's crash of a helicopter chartered by conservation group WWF in which 24 people were killed, the U.S. embassy said.