Set window back color, show msg, and OK button. The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker has been orbiting and photographing asteroid 433 Eros since February. In December, President Clinton established the Northwest Hawaiian Islands Reserve, which will protect about 70 percent of United States coral reefs.
New research suggests that coral reef fish communities, at least, act as closed ecological systems.
Discovery of a Lost City Scientists discovered a hydrothermal vent field in the Atlantic containing numerous active and inactive hydrothermal vents, some with 180 feet tall chimneys, the largest ever found. They named it the Lost City. The National Youth Tobacco Survey recently reported the results of the first representative national survey of teens' smoking habits. In Search of Noah's Flood Scientists discover evidence for Noah's flood legend amidst remains of wooden houses, tools, and boats under the Black Sea. Pluto's status as the solar system's ninth planet is in question.