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PORTLAND, Ore. - Officials say three monkeys on the loose at the Oregon National Primate Research Center are hanging out near "corrals" on the campus in Beaverton. They are among nine who e...

NORTH ADAMS _ The country's largest museum of contemporary art wants to build one of the largest solar-power installations in New England as part of a solar energy center that would become a national training ground for those connected with the field.

The US military has disputed North Korea's claim it had launched a satellite into space, saying 'the payload itself landed in the Pacific Ocean.' Despite howls of protest from other nations, North Korea launched a long-range rocket across the top of Japan.

Reports on space trash, repairs to the Hubble telescope and an experiment that simulates a trip to Mars by locking six people in a tiny room for 105 days.

1 Block Off the Grid, the low-cost solar group-purchasing program, just launched a new campaign in San Diego.1BOG expects to choose a solar installer around April 18th, and have them evaluting homes by the end of the month. The more people that sign up, the better the discount for anyone buying solar through the program.If you aren’t familiar with 1 Block Off the Grid, what they do may be best explained by today’s article in New York Times Magazine:…in a cultural moment when many individuals aren't feeling all that rugged, perhaps it makes sense that a company called 1BOG has put collective buying at the center of its business model. The name is derived from the phrase "one block off the grid," a reference to the goal of rounding up groups of homeowners willing to install solar-power systems on their houses - removing the rough equivalent of one block from a city's electrical grid.If you’re looking for solar in San Diego and want to get involved, check out

PARIS (AP) -- A massive ice shelf anchored to the Antarctic coast by a narrow and quickly deteriorating ice bridge could break away soon, the European Space Agency warned Friday....

The US military has disputed North Korea's claim it launched a satellite into space, saying 'the payload itself landed in the Pacific Ocean.' Despite howls of protest from other nations, North Korea launched a long-range rocket across the top of Japan.

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have shed light on how the neurotransmitter dopamine helps brain cells process important information. Researchers found in a study of mouse cells that this neurotransmitter, one of the molecules used by nerve cells to communicate with one another, causes certain brain cells to become more flexible and changes brain-cell circuitry to process important information differently than mundane information.