The NASA rover Curiosity has beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream, possibly waist-deep, once flowed on Mars — a find that the mission’s chief scientist called exciting.
There have been previous signs that water existed on the red planet long ago, but the images released Thursday showing pebbles rounded off, likely by water, offered the most convincing evidence so far of an ancient streambed.
The United States and the U.N.’s new Syria mediator grappled for a new strategy Tuesday toward stopping 18 months of brutal government crackdowns and civil war in the Arab country as President Barack Obama again called for the end of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.
Confronting global tumult and Muslim anger, President Barack Obama exhorted world leaders Tuesday to stand fast against violence and extremism, arguing that protecting religious rights and free speech must be a universal responsibility and not just an American obligation.
A Palestinian legislator says President Mahmoud Abbas will likely ask the United Nation’s General Assembly to vote on recognizing Palestine in November.
Is a scrap of papyrus suggesting that Jesus had a wife authentic?
Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyrus provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married.
And experts in the illicit antiquities trade also wondered about the motive of the fragment’s anonymous owner, noting that the document’s value has likely increased amid the publicity of the still-unproven find.
While the man behind an anti-Islam movie that ignited violence across the middle east would likely face swift punishment in his native egypt for making the film, in America, the government is in the thorny position of protecting his free speech rights and looking out for his safety even while condemning his message.
It’s a paradox that makes little sense to those protesting and calling for blood. To them, the movie dialogue denigrating the prophet Muhammad is all the evidence needed to pursue justice — vigilante or otherwise — against Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, an American citizen originally from Egypt.
The public face for the anti-Muslim film inflaming the Middle East is not the filmmaker, but an insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran whose unabashed and outspoken hatred of radical Muslims has drawn the attention of civil libertarians, who say he’s a hate monger.
The American filmmaker whose film, “Innocence of Muslims,” has triggered violence in Libya, says the movie was funded by Israeli donors and aimed to reveal what they saw as the flaws of Islam.
Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday assailed President Barack Obama anew over his administration’s handling of foreign attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions, saying the president’s team sent “mixed signals to the world” in the face of violence.
Muslim anger over perceived Western insults to Islam has exploded several times, most recently in Tuesday’s attacks against U.S. diplomatic posts in the Middle East in which U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
The latest model of the iPhone comes out tomorrow, and as consumers upgrade their phones, they will downgrade their values in American capitalism.
As if in anticipation of putting its new toy on the market, Apple successfully sued Samsung late last month for rights on intellectual property.
The case ended with a verdict awarding more than $1 billion to Apple from Samsung.
Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars.
Sooner or later, the workhorse spacecraft will bid adieu to the solar system and enter a new realm of space — the first time a man-made object will have escaped to the other side.
Perhaps no one on Earth will relish the moment more than 76-year-old Ed Stone, who has toiled on the project from the start.
Julian Assange lives in a pricey building in one of London’s toniest districts. But he is not staying in the lap of luxury.
The once globe-trotting WikiLeaks founder is confined to several hundred square feet of space inside Ecuador’s London embassy. If he goes outside he will be arrested by British police and extradited to Sweden to be questioned about allegations of sexual assault.
A private U.S. company has set a new date for launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station.
Long after the sun sets Friday, Baylor students will come together to plaster KONY 2012 posters all over Waco with one goal in mind — to make African warlord Joseph Kony famous.
A Baylor graduate who created a nonprofit organization to help refugees in Thailand recently shared his ideas at an international conference sponsored by a Bill Clinton initiative that brings world leaders together to discuss global issues.
Despite the negative attention Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell received last week, many students at Baylor are continuing to support the Kony 2012 movement begun by Invisible Children.
The International Space Station may provide the setting for a 500-day pretend trip to Mars in another few years.
Baylor researchers are bringing biblical history to life in Vatican City this Easter season.
Two Baylor alumni are making their dream to travel the world a reality.
One man is spreading Christianity as he travels the globe, however, Tim Comer isn’t your average missionary.
More than 884 million people lack clean drinking water, and Baylor joined forces with college campuses across the nation to decrease that number through the Wells Project challenge 10 Days.
An Iranian graduate student at the University of Texas went on trial Tuesday in Tehran on charges of having relations with a hostile country and receiving illegitimate funds, his lawyer said.
Five students will represent Baylor in the final round of an international business case competition in November.
Nathan Adair, a 2001 Baylor graduate, has been dining on $1 a day for 30 days in order to raise poverty awareness– a challenge that will end at the end of the week.
Through Baylor’s several teaching and interning abroad programs, such as the Teach in London, Teach in Costa Rica, and Teach in Australia programs, students have the opportunity to travel beyond the comforts of home and learn more about other cultures and education systems.
A Baylor study, funded by a research grant from the National Geographic Society, will seek to disprove a common theory held by researchers on the origins of domesticated horses in the Near East.
Food has not always been an issue on artist and Baylor alumnus Mark Menjivar’s conceptual plate.
It’s a hopeful glimpse of light that serves as a guide out of the darkness. This is how Jeff Walters, assistant director for campus recreation and leader of Baylor’s outdoor recreation and leadership trip to Athens, Greece, described the immersion of culture between Baylor students and Albanian immigrants. Walters will lead 10 Baylor students as they spend two weeks in July mentoring Albanian youth about leadership and self-esteem.
Villages in Rwanda and classrooms in Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business may not be comparable in appearance, but both serve to educate Baylor students about microfinancing and businesses in developing countries.
