MSNBC: Science

Friday th 20th of December 2013

Do the (artificial) worm: Simulated organism makes first wriggles - 20:30

Florida sees record 803 manatee deaths; red tide blamed - 19:00

Damaged reefs show resiliency in Cayman Islands study - 18:02

The human challenge: Continuing civilization indefinitely - 17:31

Real-life 'Gravity'? Drama builds over spacewalks to fix space station - 17:30

Rugged Mars terrain chewing up Curiosity's wheels; inspection set - 16:33

'Planet traps' may halt death march of super-hot gas giants - 14:31

Don't forget about the Ursid meteor shower -- it peaks this weekend - 14:01

Japan's Kirobo robot chats with astronaut in space for first time - 13:30

6 million years ago, Mediterranean was a mile-high salt field - 13:00

NASA re-creates iconic Apollo 8 'Earthrise' 45 years later - 12:05

Thursday th 19th of December 2013

Holiday calendar: Japan's baby island is here to stay - 21:00

John Lennon, 9 others honored with Mercury craters - 20:30

Reactivated NASA asteroid-hunting probe takes first photos in 2.5 years - 19:00

Volume of otherworldly seas on Saturn moon Titan calculated - 18:30

Hey man, this is why those 'hippie chimp' bonobos are so laid back - 16:00

Worth the weight: New technique measures mass of alien planets - 15:30

Extinct giant moa bird wasn't so giant after all, new study finds - 14:30

Scientists storm ahead and create volcanic lightning in lab - 13:30

How Halley's comet is linked to a famine 1,500 years ago - 13:00

Liftoff! European spacecraft begins mission to map 1 billion stars - 12:30

Wednesday th 18th of December 2013

Holiday calendar: Red and green lights glow in space - 22:30

Snorkels in space: American astronauts prep for urgent spacewalk repairs - 18:40

Deepest earthquakes may be best at dissipating energy - 18:40

'Chorus waves' build the need for speed in Earth's radiation belts - 17:40

Winter solstice: The sun stands still on Saturday - 16:40

It was a tremendous crash: Image shows moon's newest crater - 15:40

Mountains crumbled when Earth cooled, researchers find - 15:10

Take a look outside and watch Jupiter and moon meet up  - 14:40

Antarctica ice may be hiding some other 'ice' -- diamonds - 14:10

Sex and the Siberian Neanderthal: Incest and inter-species action - 13:40

Long-lost Dutch 'rock' is actually a very rare meteorite - 13:11

Lasers could help protect polar bear dens from oil drilling - 13:11

The writing's on the wall in medieval crypt that holds 7 male mummies - 12:41

It's a trap! Micro monster takes Olympus BioScapes photo prize - 11:57

China eyes collection of lunar samples in 2017 - 11:57

Monkey launched into space returns home, Iran officials say - 11:57

Spacewalk or supply ship? NASA faces choice on space station repair - 11:57

Bones show cats hunted Chinese village's rodents 5,300 years ago - 11:57

Grave suggests Neanderthals intentionally buried their dead - 11:57

It all adds up: Remote islanders invented binary number system - 11:56

Views of stunning Geminid meteor shower wow skywatchers - 11:56

Emperor penguins do the wave to keep warm  - 11:56

Holiday calendar: Where the snow shows in the Middle East - 11:56

Fossil turns back the human hands of time  for tool use 500,000 years - 11:56

Megafloods may have carved canyons on both Earth and Mars - 11:56

EMBARGO 11 am ET 12/17: Crop yields plateau as demand for food soars, study says - 11:56

Crop yields plateau as demand for food soars, study says - 11:56

On the East Coast? Watch for Cygnus spacecraft launch Thursday night - 11:56

Don't look back: Sharks likely to approach humans from behind - 11:56