Henry Fountain The New York Times

It began as something far off and dangerous - a monster storm, a Category 3 hurricane that packed winds of 115 miles an hour as it buzz-sawed through the Caribbean last week, causing more than a billion dollars of destruction in the Bahamas alone.

After a two-week pause to fix electrical trouble, the shuttle Endeavour lifted off on Monday morning on a mission to pry a few secrets from the universe.At 8:56 a.m. Eastern time, the spacecraft rose slowly on a pillar of fire, picking up speed as it stabbed through a layer of clouds on its way to an initial orbit 136 miles above the Earth. Among t...

The difference between a partial meltdown and a full meltdown at a nuclear plant is enormous, both in the degree of damage and in the potential release of radiation, experts in nuclear power said. A partial meltdown, like those suspected at two reactors in northeastern Japan over the weekend, may not necessarily mean that any of the uranium fuel in...

It began as something far off and dangerous - a monster storm, a Category 3 hurricane that packed winds of 115 miles an hour as it buzz-sawed through the Caribbean last week, causing more than a billion dollars of destruction in the Bahamas alone.

After a two-week pause to fix electrical trouble, the shuttle Endeavour lifted off on Monday morning on a mission to pry a few secrets from the universe.At 8:56 a.m. Eastern time, the spacecraft rose slowly on a pillar of fire, picking up speed as it stabbed through a layer of clouds on its way to an initial orbit 136 miles above the Earth. Among t...

The difference between a partial meltdown and a full meltdown at a nuclear plant is enormous, both in the degree of damage and in the potential release of radiation, experts in nuclear power said. A partial meltdown, like those suspected at two reactors in northeastern Japan over the weekend, may not necessarily mean that any of the uranium fuel in...