August 21, 2011

General Electric’s success with a half-century-old idea for enriching nuclear fuel more easily, using lasers, has critics worried that rogue states might use the method to make bomb fuel.

Over three terms in office, Gov. Rick Perry has doled out state aid to his most generous supporters and their businesses.

As maître d’hôtel at the Tower Bar, Dmitri Dmitrov, a 60-year-old Macedonian immigrant, wields a subtle and steely power.

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s grip on power dissolved with astonishing speed as rebels marched into the capital and arrested two of his sons, while residents raucously celebrated the prospective end of his four-decade-old rule.

Microfossils found in Western Australia are the latest salvos in the battle for scientific glory.