Lt. Col. E. Michael Fincke, an Emsworth native, is heading back into space tomorrow, and if the mission goes as scheduled, he'll become one of only three Americans to have spent more than a year in space. (Today)

Three U.S.-based scientists won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry yesterday for their development of a green fluorescent protein from jellyfish that has provided researchers with their first new window into the workings of the cell since development of the microscope. (10/09/2008)

A Japanese American theorist whose work helped explain how the cosmos came into being and two Japanese theorists who predicted the existence of a family of exotic particles called quarks will share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, the Swedish Nobel Foundation announced yesterday. (10/08/2008)

WASHINGTON -- Two French researchers were awarded a Nobel Prize yesterday for discovering the AIDS virus, bypassing an American researcher who played a key role in the discovery. (10/07/2008)

BARCELONA, Spain -- At least one-quarter of the world's mammals in the wild are threatened with extinction, according to an international survey released yesterday that blames the loss of wildlife habitat, hunting and poaching for the steep declines. (10/07/2008)