Four-limbed sea creatures from which humans descended walked in water before they walked on land or even developed fingers and toes, new research suggests. The study sheds light on the evolutionary transition from water to land.
Cristina Merrill
Dec 12, 2011
A NASA rover scouting for signs of past water on Mars has found the strongest evidence yet -- a vein of gypsum, a mineral deposited by water, protruding from an ancient rock.
Eric Linton
Dec 09, 2011
A NASA rover scouting for signs of past water on Mars has found the strongest evidence yet -- a vein of gypsum, a mineral deposited by water, protruding from an ancient rock.
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Dec 08, 2011
A sliver of mineral deposits left over from ancient water flows has been discovered on Mars by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, researchers said Dec. 7. The bright vein of mineral appears to be gypsum and is about an inch wide by 18-inches long.
Anthony Myers
Dec 08, 2011
Pessimistic comments from EU paymaster Germany and new figures exposing deepening stress among Europe's banks dented financial market hopes of a turning point in the euro zone's debt crisis at a summit this week.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 07, 2011
Plan a trip to the rejuvenating Dead Sea now before it shrinks!
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 06, 2011
In an effort to provide relief to families left with no potable drinking water in Dimock Pennsylvania, activists and local leaders shipped roughly 5,700 gallons of fresh water supplies by bus Tuesday from New York City's city hall.
Pierre Bertrand
Dec 06, 2011
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the existence of a planet that is 600 light years away that could possibly have water on its surface.
Laura Matthews
Dec 06, 2011
Duke University and the U.S. Geological Survey are planning to conduct a series of tests that could once and for all put to bed the debate surrounding alleged ground water contamination as a result of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas drilling.
Pierre Bertrand
Dec 01, 2011
Many ski resorts across Switzerland, Austria and France have been opened, but in vain, for the Alpine regions are experiencing the warmest autumn in 147 years and have little snow.
Sanskrity Sinha
Nov 29, 2011
The world economy is on a slippery slope. The euro zone appears to have tipped into a mild recession and the rest of the global economy is struggling to hold onto firm ground.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 27, 2011
The sea of Faroe Islands in north of Europe turned red with the blood of hundreds of whales killed by the inhabitants, as a part of their annual whale hunting culture.
Sanskrity Sinha
Nov 24, 2011
A family recently visiting the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, Calif. caught an incredible video of an octopus crawling out of water and onto land. It seems the octopus would stop at nothing to catch its dinner, even some seaside crawling.
Julia Greenberg
Nov 23, 2011
Federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on a U.S. industrial system.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 21, 2011
Long before Wood's death by drowning, the West Side Story and Rebel Without a Cause star had a lifelong, unsettling relationship with water, including a childhood fear of drowning and many significant parts of her life lived at sea. As Wood's case is re-opened, and as details about Robert Wagner and Dennis Davern emerge, sister Lana Wood links her drowning to premonitions of a watery death.
Melanie Jones
Nov 19, 2011
Federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on an industrial system on U.S. soil.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 18, 2011
The “Lady Marmalade” R&B diva Patti LaBelle has been accused of hurling curses and throwing water at a toddler, according to a lawsuit filed at Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 16, 2011
The conflict between humanity and nature has never been as serious as it is today.
Palash Ghosh
Nov 16, 2011
Researchers have found the evidence of a lake that existed and got extinct during the Late Pleistocene, the Earth's latest Ice Age era, in California.
Sanskrity Sinha
Nov 16, 2011
Scientists at the University of Berkeley, California, have now shown that devices capable of producing such ionized plasmas can not only sterilize water but also make it antimicrobial, by killing bacteria. In addition, the antimicrobial effect can be sustained for as long as a week.
Sangeeta Ghosh Dastidar
Nov 16, 2011
Cholera has broken out in the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, home to nearly 500,000 Somali refugees, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Jack Kim
Nov 15, 2011
That water bottle you're drinking out of right now and will throw in the recycle bin later - oh, you better throw it in the recycle bin - could be put to more renewable use.
Brett LoGiurato
Nov 14, 2011