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  1. The logo of social networking website 'Facebook' is displayed on a computer screen. Sharing status updates on online services such as Twitter or Facebook is becoming increasingly popular among Americans, according to a survey released on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)
    Posting Pics Online? What Your Photos Say About You LiveScience.com - Mon Nov 9, 11:23 AM ET

    Those photos you post on Facebook could paint an accurate picture of your personality, new research on first impressions suggests.

  2. Artificial Penis Tissue Proves Promising in Lab Tests LiveScience.com - Mon Nov 9, 10:04 PM ET

    One day artificial penis tissue could be grown to help men, new findings in rabbits now suggest.

  3. Ants Save Mates Trapped in Sand LiveScience.com - Sun Nov 8, 6:22 PM ET

    Helpful acts, such as grooming or foster parenting, are common throughout the animal kingdom, but accounts of animals rescuing one another from danger are exceedingly rare, having been reported in the scientific literature only for dolphins, capuchin monkeys, and ants. New research shows that in the ant Cataglyphis cursor, the behavior is surprisingly sophisticated.

  4. Maya Murals Give Rare View of Everyday Life LiveScience.com - Mon Nov 9, 3:27 PM ET

    Recently excavated Mayan murals are giving archaeologists a rare look into the lives of ordinary ancient Maya.

  5. Pennsylvania lawsuit says drilling polluted water Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 9:37 AM ET

    AVELLA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company for polluting his soil and water in an attempt to link a natural gas drilling technique with environmental contamination.

  6. Human Origins: Our Crazy Family Tree LiveScience.com - Mon Nov 9, 2:55 PM ET

    Editor's Note: This is Part 7 in a 10-part LiveScience series on the origin, evolution and future of the human species and the mysteries that remain to be solved.

  7. Bruce Murray (L), founder of the Planetary Society (TPS), Ann Druyian (C) of Cosmos Studios and Jim Cantrell, chief technician of TPS, speak about the tracking of Cosmos 1, the world's first solar sail spacecraft, during a news conference at the Planetary Society and Cosmos Studios in Pasadena, California June 21, 2005. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
    New solar-sail mission planned after 2005 failure Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 10:26 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Backers of a failed mission to launch the world's first solar-sail spacecraft unveiled plans on Monday to try again five years later with a smaller, swifter satellite to test the limits of sunlight propulsion.

  8. FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2003 file photo, 2003 Nobel Prize winner in physics Vitaly Ginzburg is seen at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. Ginzburg died Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, at the age of 93, the Russian news television channel Vesti reported Monday. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
    Nobel-winning Russian physicist dies at 93 AP - Mon Nov 9, 11:27 PM ET

    MOSCOW - Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93.

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