For the first time this year, and for the first time since China's change of leadership, a high-ranking North Korean official has made a visit to its neighbor and largest trading partner.
On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles, or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
This video is a time-lapse sequence, compressing about 60 days into less than five minutes, taken from the bridge of the nathaniel B. Palmer as the ship "carves" forward through the Antarctic ice. Cassandra Brooks is studying international ocean policy and is focusing particularly on Antarctic marine ecosystem protection.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers have developed a new drug delivery system that allows inhalation of chemotherapeutic drugs to help treat lung cancer, and in laboratory and animal tests it appears to reduce the systemic damage done to other organs while significantly improving the treatment of lung tumors.