Europe’s troubled flagship Earth observer, Envisat, is pictured by another spacecraft flying just underneath it.

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Sharp eye sees crippled Envisat

Saroo Brierly told BBC Radio 5 live’s Victoria Derbyshire about tracking down his birth mother using Google Earth.

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AUDIO: Man uses Google to find mother

Last summer’s Virginia earthquake continues to reverberate in the scientific community. The 5.8-magnitude tremor August 23 wasn’t huge by global standards, but punched above its weight. Scientists were struck by the way the tremor near the town of Mineral managed to damage the nation’s capital 84 miles away, putting cracks in the Washington Monument and toppling a spire at the National Cathedral. So: How’d it do that? Read full article > >

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How the Virginia earthquake packed such a punch

With earth’s population headed for 10 billion, much of the growth is in sub-Saharan Africa, where trends that have lowered birthrates elsewhere have not yet caught on.

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In Nigeria, a Preview of an Overcrowded Planet

Somewhere it is written that the nerds shall inherit the Earth. They got off to a good start last week by taking over the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for three days of provocation and performance art aimed at spreading new ideas among the well-connected and influential in the worlds of health and medicine. Read full article > >

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Scientists become superstars as TEDMED moves to Washington

How Google Earth reunited a family after 25 years

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Little Boy lost – and found

Engineers are battling to save the European Space Agency’s flagship Earth observation mission – the eight-tonne Envisat.

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Battle to save flagship satellite

A pair of strong earthquakes rocked Mexico's Gulf of California only minutes apart early Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

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Earthquakes shake Gulf of California

“Iraqi Immigrants in California Town Fear a Hate Crime in a Woman’s Killing,” read a recent New York Times headline. The article reported that the murdered woman’s family had previously found a note with the words “This is my country. Go back to yours, terrorist,” taped to the door of their Orange County house. Although an ongoing police investigation has unearthed family tensions which may have led to the murder of Shaima Alawadi, the shame and the fear of violence directed at Arab and Muslim Americans is nevertheless very real. I know because I, too, am an Iraqi-American, born in Baghdad and raised here. First, some background. After graduating high school in Baghdad, my father received his medical degree from La Sorbonne in Paris. Returning to Baghdad, he founded a private hospital with an Iraqi partner also educated in Paris. My father was Jewish; his partner Shiite; their nurses Catholic nuns in the then multi-cultural, multi-ethnic Iraqi capital. Following Israel’s creation, anti-Semitism surged throughout the Arab world. My mother fled with me to Europe. Unable to get permission to legally emigrate, my father smuggled himself to Iran in a fishing boat. From there, he flew to Europe, rejoining us, and bringing us all to America. He got recertified here, and would treat thousands of patients in an office off Fifth Avenue.

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Reclaiming My Iraqi Identity

A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake has struck off Mexico’s Pacific coast, the second quake to hit the area in the last 24 hours.

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Mexico struck by two earthquakes

Earthquake triggers a tsunami alert

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In pictures: Indonesia Aceh quake

A powerful 8.6-magnitude earthquake, followed by a strong aftershock, struck off Indonesia on Wednesday, creating panic and reviving memories of the deadly 2004 earthquake.

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Strong Indonesian Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Warning

A spokesman for the Seoul government said satellite images of a growing pile of earth outside a tunnel might signal plans for an underground blast.

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South Koreans Suspect That North Plans Nuclear Test

Paul Gilding says the limits to the earth's resources will put a brake on economic growth, and we should get ready.

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Opinion: Earth can’t keep up with growth

Civil authorities in Mexico City have rolled out a free app for Blackberry phones that will warn people when an earthquake is imminent.

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Free earthquake app for Mexicans