Uni­ver­sal Pic­tures will ful­ly finance and dis­trib­ute Hell­boy 2, the Guiller­mo del Toro-direct­ed sequel to the 2004 Dark Horse Com­ic-spawned film, Vari­ety reported.

Hele­na Bon­ham Carter has joined the cast of the upcom­ing fifth Har­ry Pot­ter movie, The Order of the Phoenix, and will play Bel­la­trix Lestrange, Sir­ius Black­’s cousin and a Death Eater, who is one of Lord Volde­mor­t’s fol­low­ers, Warn­er Broth­ers announced.

A Ger­man com­put­er secu­ri­ty con­sul­tant has shown that he can clone the elec­tron­ic pass­ports that the Unit­ed States and oth­er coun­tries are begin­ning to dis­trib­ute this year.

Our uni­verse may be 15% larg­er and old­er than we thought, accord­ing to new mea­sure­ments of the dis­tance to a near­by galaxy.

Con­ser­v­a­tive Chris­t­ian broad­cast­er Pat Robert­son said on Thurs­day the wave of scorch­ing tem­per­a­tures across the Unit­ed States has con­vert­ed him into a believ­er in glob­al warming.

An ancient peri­od of glob­al warm­ing spurred the world’s first pri­mates to spread from Asia to North Amer­i­ca, new research shows.

The ani­mals may have tak­en as lit­tle as 20,000 years to dis­perse across the North­ern Hemi­sphere from the moment they first appeared.

Stun­ning beau­ty and the promise of oil and min­er­als are bring­ing more peo­ple to the once-pris­tine continent.

At the bot­tom of the world, more than two miles beneath the wind-blast­ed sur­face of Antarc­ti­ca, sits a won­der of the last untouched continent.

Guest writer Bri­an Soden of the Divi­sion of Mete­o­rol­o­gy and Phys­i­cal Oceanog­ra­phy at the Rosen­stiel School of Marine & Atmos­pher­ic Sci­ence at Mia­mi Uni­ver­si­ty (yeah, that’s usu­al­ly abbre­vi­at­ed) explains about what cli­mate feed­backs are and how they are fac­tored into what we …