STENNIS SPACE CENTER, MS. - The Gulf of Mexico Program is currently soliciting entries for the 2008 Gulf Guardian Awards Program. The entry forms for the award are available online at http://www.epa.gov/gmpo/gulfguard.html. The deadline for applications is May 1, 2008. The Gulf of Mexico Program partnership developed the Gulf Guardian Awards in 2000 as a way to recognize and honor...

"My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants." Is this a lost line from the Disney cartoon Aladdin? Actually this is the new mnemonic just selected by National Geographic Children's Books in a nationwide contest to help remember the names of the 11 planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union. The planets, in order from the Sun...

An article title “The ‘first Americans’ probably weren’t”, published by Reuters, claims that the Clovis people were not the first to arrive in the Americas and that they probably arrived much the same time as other cultures. According to Michael Waters, director of Texas A&M University’s Center for the Study of the First Americans, and one of the two authors...