CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA is on the verge of launching a planet-hunting spacecraft....
U.S. officials are concerned that Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are on the verge of breaking down as soon as 2010, they tell The Guardian.
... Thanks to renewed interest in nuclear power, the United States is on the verge of a uranium mining boom, and nowhere is the hurry to stake claims more pronounced than in the districts flanking the ...
... likely to affect areas near the poles, tropical insects are already living in conditions that verge on being too hot for them, which means they could be teetering on the edge of extinction.Take the ...
... and research has declined steadily by nearly $28 million over the past six years,” said Klippel. “We are on the verge of a public health crisis and must take action now.”
The Arthritis Foundation is ...
Colin Pillinger: Had Europe fully backed the Beagle project we, rather than Nasa, would be on the verge of solving space's greatest mystery
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With her husband in command of space shuttle Discovery and on the verge of launching, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wanted to set the record straight.
To everybody's relief, astronauts fixed the toilet at the international space station on Wednesday and were on the verge of opening up a grand new science lab.
Nasa scientists have said they could be on the verge of a breakthrough in their efforts to forecast earthquakes.
... (AP) -- Makers and sellers of wheelchairs, oxygen machines and other medical equipment are on the verge of getting Congress to delay, if not scrap, a new program the Bush administration says would ...
The northern white rhino of central Africa is on the verge of being wiped out, a conservation group said Tuesday.
... It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population – rather than communities on the verge of extinction. "The tools we've found at the site are technologically advanced and potentially older ...
Astronomers are optimistic they will find Earth-like worlds in the near future.
... diagnostics, risk predictions and treatment decisions are based on a patient's genetic profile — may be on the verge of being expanded beyond the wealthiest of nations with state-of-the-art clinics. A ...
... for food and fuel is rapidly eating up vast forestlands in the Amazon and Southeast Asia.
"Arguably, we are on the verge of a last great global land grab," said Andy White, Coordinator of RRI and co ...
