(MCT)LONDON (AP) _ A respected international panel of experts says cellphones are possible cancer-causing agents, putting them in the same category as the pesticide DDT, gasoline engine exhaust and coffee.The classification was issued Tuesday in Lyon, France, by the International Agency for Research on Cancer after a review of dozens of published studies. The agency is an arm of the World Health O

In this screegrab from a NASA video, the four planets align. (NASA) Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Mercury will align between Sunday and Tuesday this week and be met with a very thin line of the moon in a slow series of conjunctions, Space.com reported. The unusual convergence of the four

This NASA illustration photo shows stars that are forming in a dwarf starburst galaxy located about 30 million light years from Earth. A 22-year-old Australian university student has solved a problem which has puzzled astrophysicists for decades, discovering part of the so-called "missing mass" of the universe during her summer break. (NASA)SYDNEY (AFP) – A 22-year-old Australian university studen

A boy from Iowa who is only 11 has apparently gone bald after pulling out his hair.The child suffers from trichotillomania, a mental disorder that makes patients compulsively pull out their own hairs.“He started to pull out his eyebrows when he was in second grade, then he quit. Then, when he started fourth grade, he started to pull out his hair,”his mother told ABC.It is known that this type of a

In this image provided by NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel works in the space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay during the mission's first spacewalk at the International Space Station Friday May 20, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News/NASA)HOUSTON (AP) _ In an unprecedented cosmic photo shoot Monday, a departing spaceship snapped close-up glamour pictures of the space shuttle Endeavour attached to the International

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the edge-on profile of the slender spiral galaxy NGC 5775, which is surrounded by a halo of gas that astronomers suspect is kicked up by star explosions like a galaxy-size fountain. (NASA)Jack Sparrow seeks to find the fountain of youth in the fourth installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean” -- now Hubble scientists have found one of a sort, but 85

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) _ Iceland closed its main international airport Sunday as a volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air.Smoke rises from the Grimsvotn volcano in Reykjavik, Iceland, Saturday. (AP-Yonhap News)Airport and air traffic control operator ISAVIA said Keflavik airport was closed at 0830 GMT (4:30 a.m. EDT), and no flights were takin

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) _ Pope Benedict XVI had a direct line to the heavens Saturday, with NASA's help.Speaking from the Vatican, the pontiff bestowed a historic blessing upon the 12 astronauts circling Earth during the first-ever papal call to space, wishing a swift recovery for the shuttle commander's wounded congresswoman wife and condolences for a station astronaut mourning his mother's

(AP-Yonhap News)The existence of “dark energy” that accelerates expansion of the Universe has been confirmed by an astronomical survey of about 200,000 galaxies, BBC reported. Dark energy makes up some 74 percent of the Universe and its force pulls the Universe apart at increasing speed. “The action of dark energy is as if you threw a ball up in the air, and it kept speeding upward into the sky fa

Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found a previously inconceivable phenomenon: planets that do not appear to be anchored to a host star but instead wander the heavens.In a two-year scan of the cosmos, 10 planets with roughly the mass of Jupiter, the largest planet of our Solar System, have been found at such enormous distances from the nearest star that some of them could be said to float fre