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Just How Big Was the Biggest Earthquake?05-24-12
Dollars and Scents: The Chemistry of a Delicious Tomato05-24-12
Why America's Love Affair with Cars Is No Accident05-24-12
"Artificial Leaf" Hits Development Hurdle05-23-12
'Artificial Leaf' Hits Development Hurdle05-23-12
Off the Clock: Disrupted Daily Rhythms Hinder Fertility in Mice05-23-12
U.S. Government Sets Out Alzheimer's Plan05-23-12
Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?05-23-12
Can Soil Sensors Save Georgia Waterways from Drought?05-22-12
2-Hour Therapy Cures Spider Phobia by Rewiring the Brain05-22-12
Flexible Plastic Electronic Display Company Exits E-Reader Market05-22-12
$74 PC on a USB Stick Sold Out (for Now)05-22-12
Digging into Climate Change, U.S. Students Find More Than Science05-22-12
Self-Destruct Button Toasts Solid-State Hard Drive05-22-12
Climate Education Graduates to the Next Level05-21-12
Human Use of Water Found to Contribute to Sea-Level Rise05-21-12
Climate Education Graduates to Next Level05-21-12
The Stats on Statins: Should Healthy Adults Over 50 Take Them?05-21-12
California Considers DNA Privacy Law05-21-12
Stuxnet-Like Viruses Remain a Top U.S. Security Risk05-18-12
Unhurtful Thoughts: A Preoccupied Brain Produces Pain-Killing Compounds05-17-12
Coyotes Are the New Top Dogs05-17-12
Self-Worth Shattering: A Single Bomb Blast Can Saddle Soldiers with Debilitating Brain Trauma05-16-12
Track Record: Do Major Urban Subway Networks Evolve along Similar Patterns?05-16-12
How Subway Networks Evolve05-15-12
Not-So-Quick Fix: ADHD Behavioral Therapy May Be More Effective Than Drugs in Long Run05-15-12
In Search of the Best (Energy) Ideas: A Q&A with ARPA-E's Arun Majumdar05-11-12
In Search of the Best (Energy) Ideas: A Q&A with ARPA E's Arun Majumdar05-11-12
Ancient Time: Earliest Mayan Astronomical Calendar Unearthed in Guatemala Ruins05-10-12
Climate Forecasting: A Break in the Clouds05-10-12
Hive and Seek: Domestic Honeybees Keep Disappearing, but Are Their Wild Cousins in Trouble, Too? [Slide Show]05-08-12
Brain Scans Reveal Dogs' Thoughts05-08-12
Giant Flealike Pest Put the Bite on Dinosaurs05-03-12
Triple Crown-Bound Horse Breeders Start to Look to Genetics05-04-12
Giant Flea-Like Pest Put the Bite on Dinosaurs05-03-12
Stonehenge Had Lecture Hall Acoustics05-03-12
Giant Flea-Like Pests Put the Bite on Dinosaurs05-03-12
How Biodiversity Keeps Earth Alive05-03-12
Rebirth Control: Lessons Learned from 90 Years of Rainforest Regeneration [Slide Show]05-03-12
Coal Exports Boost Train Impacts Out West05-03-12
Accident-Zone: Poorer Neighborhoods Have Less-Safe Road Designs05-03-12
Big Gulp: Flaring Galaxy Marks the Messy Demise of a Star in a Supermassive Black Hole05-02-12
How to Find a Meteorite in 5 Steps05-02-12
New "Beauty Baryon" Particle Discovered at Large Hadron Collider05-01-12
Warming Ocean Current Might Create Coral Refuges05-01-12
New 'Beauty Baryon' Particle Discovered at Large Hadron Collider05-01-12
Is Global Warming Causing More Home Runs in Baseball?04-30-12
A Q&A with Ian Hacking on Thomas Kuhn's Legacy as "The Paradigm Shift" Turns 5004-27-12
Space Shuttle Swan Songs: Enterprise and Discovery Fly their Final Missions [Slide Show]04-27-12
Certainty Principle: People Who Hold False Convictions Are Better at Retaining Corrected Information04-27-12
Space Shuttle Swan Songs: Enterprise and Discovery Fly their Final Missions [Slide Show]04-27-12
India Becomes World's Top Spammer04-26-12
9 Percent of Older Adults Have Osteoporosis04-26-12
Where It Rains, It Will Pour--Otherwise, Tough Luck04-26-12
Losing Your Religion: Analytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief04-26-12
Tetris Shown to Lessen PTSD and Flashbacks04-25-12
Big Mac Attack: Apple Security Bruised after OS X Infections04-25-12
Nothing to Sneeze at: Allergies May Be Good for You04-25-12
Will Organic Food Fail to Feed the World?04-25-12
Genome Run: Andean Shrub Is First New Plant Species Described by Its DNA04-24-12
Cheap Fracked Gas Could Help Americans Keep on Truckin'04-23-12
Second Wind: Air-Breathing Lithium Batteries Promise Recharge-Free Long-Range Driving--If the Bugs Can Be Worked Out04-20-12
Hot Spring Yields New Hybrid Viral Genome04-20-12
BFF?: Cell Phone Study Shows Evolving Lifetime Relationships in Men and Women04-13-12
The Rue Age: Older Adults Disengage from Regrets, Young People Fixate on Them04-19-12
Melting Glaciers Liberate Ancient Microbes04-18-12
Depression in Teens Could Be Diagnosed with Blood Test04-18-12
Gene Hunt Is On for Mental Disabilities in Children04-17-12
Hierarchy of Color Naming Matches the Limits of Our Vision System04-16-12
Apes' Simple Nests Are Feats of Engineering04-16-12
Memory Foraging: When the Brain Behaves Like a Bee04-16-12
Penguins from Space: A New Satellite Census Doubles the Known Population of Emperors04-13-12
Secret Computer Code Threatens Science04-13-12
Fathomable Pharmaceuticals: Will Cameron's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Yield Breakthrough Drugs?04-12-12
Parsing Primates: Baboons Learn to Recognize the Difference Between Real and Fake English Words04-12-12
Feeding the World, While the Earth Cooks [Live Webcast]04-12-12
Bugs That Transmit "Silent Killer" Are Biting More in the U.S.04-09-12
Bits of the Future: First Universal Quantum Network Prototype Links 2 Separate Labs04-11-12
Cooperative Neural Networks Suggest How Intelligence Evolved04-11-12
EPA Cancels Grant Applications for $20 Million Green Chemistry Program04-10-12
Grid Unlocked: How Street Networks Evolve as Cities Grow04-06-12
NOAA Confirms Unprecedented Warmth in March04-10-12
Homophobes Might Be Hidden Homosexuals04-10-12
Deadly March Tornadoes Were First Billion-Dollar Disaster of 201204-10-12
First Dedicated Biorefinery Could Wean Hawaii Off Imported Oil04-10-12
Solar Steam Helps Coax Heavy Oil from Old Fields04-09-12
Rising Ocean Temperatures Prime Amazon Rainforest for Fire04-09-12
Bugs That Transmit 'Silent Killer' Are Biting More in U.S.04-09-12
How the Moon Affects the Date of Easter04-06-12
Different Strokes: New Lower-Pollution Auto Rickshaw Engines Could Save Lives, Curb Climate Change [Slide Show]04-06-12
Massive Dolphin Die-Off in Peru May Remain a Mystery04-06-12
Drug-Resistant Malaria Spreads, Scientists Hunt Down Genetic Causes04-05-12
Nanorama: Graphene Bubbles Showcase Liquids with Atomic-Scale Resolution04-05-12
In the Heat for a Moment: The Male Giant Panda's Sex Drive Fluctuates to Match the Female's Short-Lived Libido04-04-12
What Thawed the Last Ice Age?04-04-12
Why "Uncanny Valley" Human Look-Alikes Put Us on Edge04-03-12
"Breathtaking" Mummy Coffin Covers Seized in Israel04-03-12
Flame Retardants May Create Deadlier Fires04-04-12
Infectious Selflessness: How an Ant Colony Becomes a Social Immune System04-03-12
'Breathtaking' Mummy Coffin Covers Seized in Israel04-03-12
Why 'Uncanny Valley' Human Look-Alikes Put Us on Edge04-03-12
New Images of Titanic Wreck Revealed03-30-12
How Useful Is Whole Genome Sequencing to Predict Disease?04-02-12
World Repository of Human Genetics Will Move to Amazon's Cloud04-02-12
A Tour of the New Geopolitics of Global Warming04-02-12
The New Geopolitics of Global Warming04-02-12
U.S. Military Forges Ahead with Plans to Combat Climate Change04-02-12
Live Webcast: Xenophobia--Why Do We Fear Others?03-31-12
New Images of Titanic Wreck Revealed03-30-12
Microbial Mules: Engineering Bacteria to Transport Nanoparticles and Drugs03-29-12
Radioactive Iodine from Fukushima Found in California Kelp03-30-12
'Earth Hour' Pauses at U.S. Border03-30-12
Fossil Free: Microbe Helps Convert Solar Power to Liquid Fuel03-30-12
Microbial Mules: Scientists Experiment With Engineering Bacteria to Transport Nanoparticles and Drugs03-29-12
Health Care Reform on Trial: What's at Stake in the Supreme Court Arguments03-23-12
A Rosie Future: Jetsons -Like Gadgets with "Ambient Intelligence" Are Key to Smart Homes and Cities03-29-12
Ancient Human Had Feet Like an Ape [Video]03-29-12
Coloring-Book Pages Transformed into 3-D Animations via New Software03-28-12
Ancient Human Had Feet Like an Ape03-29-12
Coloring-Book Pages Transformed into 3D Animations via New Software03-28-12
Primeval Precipitation: What Fossil Imprints of Rain Reveal about Early Earth03-28-12
New Maps of Mercury Show Icy Looking Craters on the Solar System's Innermost Planet03-28-12
Pupfish, Downfish: Subterranean Tsunami Gives Vertical Shakes to the Water-Hole Home of Endangered Fishes03-27-12
Controversy Surrounds Russia's Claim that Cosmic Rays Caused Mars Mission Failure03-26-12
Evidence for Flowing Water on Mars Grows Stronger03-23-12
Health Care Reform on Trial: What's at Stake in the Upcoming Supreme Court Arguments03-23-12
The Ballooning Brain: Defective Genes May Explain Uncontrolled Brain Growth in Autism03-22-12
Big Kill, Not Big Chill, Finished Off Giant Kangaroos03-22-12
Power Plants: Could a Rechargeable Battery Be Made from Paper and Pulp By-Products?03-22-12
Reign Check: Abundant Rainfall May Have Spurred Expansion of Genghis Khan's Empire03-21-12
Can Fast Reactors Speedily Solve Plutonium Problems?03-21-12
How to See Around Corners03-20-12
Something to Chew On: Healthier Hot Dogs Substitute Cellulose for Saturated Fats03-19-12
"Horizontal Tornado" Captured by Amateur Videographer03-16-12
Sound Barrier: Can High-Power Ultrasound Protect Produce from Pathogens?03-19-12
Snowflake Growth Successfully Modeled from Physical Laws03-16-12
'Horizontal Tornado' Captured By Amateur Videographer03-16-12
Low Doses of Hormonelike Chemicals May Have Big Effects03-15-12
Snowflake Growth Successfully Modeled for the First Time03-16-12
Low Doses of Hormone-like Chemicals May Have Big Effects03-15-12
Worm Discovery Illuminates How Our Brains Might Have Evolved03-15-12
Jawless Vertebrate Had World's Sharpest Teeth03-15-12
9-Year-Old Boy's Shrinking Brain Disorder Baffles Doctors03-13-12
"Chum Cam" Helps Catalogue Endangered Sharks03-09-12
South Africa Wins Panel's Backing to Host Square Kilometer Array Scope03-12-12
A Bit of Progress: Diamonds Shatter Quantum Information Storage Record03-12-12
South Africa Wins Panel's Backing to Host Square-Kilometer-Array Scope03-12-12
'Chum Cam' Helps Catalog Endangered Sharks03-09-12
NASA Crushes 2012 Mayan Apocalypse Claims03-09-12
Flavor of the Ray: Neutrino Measurement May Help Solve Mystery of Matter's Domination over Antimatter03-08-12
Pirate-Eye Pigeons Reveal How the Brain Talks to Itself03-08-12
Biopsies Found to Provide Only a Snapshot of Tumor Diversity03-08-12
One Thing Is Certain: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Is Not Dead03-08-12
9 Flying Robots Play 007 Theme03-02-12
Raise It or Raze It?: How Will the Stranded Italian Cruise Ship Be Salvaged?03-06-12
Could a Penny Dropped Off a Skyscraper Actually Kill You?03-05-12
Industrial Chemicals Linked to Attention Problems in Children03-05-12
Nine Flying Robots Play 007 Theme03-02-12
Japan's Post-Fukushima Earthquake Health Woes Go Beyond Radiation Effects03-02-12
Caffeine Disrupts Sleep for Morning People, but Not Night Owls03-01-12
Caffeine Disrupts Sleep for Morning People But Not Night Owls03-01-12
It's Not Just Fukushima: Mass Disaster Evacuations Challenge Planners03-01-12
Structured Unlearning: Marijuana May Impair Memory via the Brain's Non-Firing Cells03-01-12
A Tour of the U.S.'s Clean Energy Future [Slide Show]03-01-12
A Tour of the U.S. Clean Energy Future [Slide Show]03-01-12
Gene Therapy Could Help Corals Survive Climate Change02-29-12
North Korea Suspends Nuclear Testing02-29-12
Could "Computational Sprinting" Speed Up Smart Phones without Burning Them Out?02-29-12
Bats Harbor Novel Type of Influenza02-28-12
New Energy-Dense Battery Could Enable Long-Distance Electric Cars02-27-12
"Time Crystals" Could Be a Legitimate Form of Perpetual Motion02-27-12
Hell off Earth: Blustery Exoplanet Charted in 2-D for First Time02-27-12
Deadly Duo: Mixing Alcohol and Prescription Drugs Can Result in Addiction or Accidental Death02-24-12
First Horses Shrunk by Warming Climate02-23-12
Scary Stuff: Fright Chemical Identified in Injured Fish02-23-12
New Family of Limbless Amphibians Discovered in India02-22-12
Co-opulation: Sometimes It Takes More Than 2 to Tango [Slide Show]02-21-12
Dual Interpretations: Milky Way's Outer Fringe of Stars Sparks Disagreement02-22-12
Fossilized, 'Pompeii' Forest Discovered Under Ash02-21-12
Co-oppulation: Sometimes It Takes More Than 2 to Tango [Slide Show]02-21-12
Alex the Parrot's Posthumous Paper Shows His Mathematical Genius02-21-12
Squid Can Fly to Save Energy02-21-12
Autism Signs Appear in Brains of 6-Month-Old Infants02-18-12
California Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists in Italy Quake Manslaughter Trial02-16-12
How the First Plant Came to Be02-16-12
Microchip Implant Gives Medication On Command02-16-12
Deadly Alcohol Needs Global Regulation, Health Expert Says02-16-12
World's Tiniest Chameleon Discovered02-16-12
Leaked: Conservative Group Plans Anti-Climate Education Program02-15-12
Did Life's First Cells Evolve in Geothermal Pools?02-15-12
Hearts and Air Pollution: 5 Deadly Air Pollutants Measured on 5 Continents02-15-12
Cool Aid: Drug That Lets Body Temperature Drop Could Save Stroke Victims02-15-12
Hearts and Air Pollution: Five Deadly Air Pollutants Measured on Five Continents02-15-12
Why Did Europe's Danube River Freeze?02-14-12
In the Andes, Extreme Cold Extracts Bitter Toll02-13-12
Red Sea: Sounding Radar Buoys Evidence Mars Once Had an Ocean02-13-12
Senators Consider Banning Automatic Media Sharing on Facebook02-12-12
Is Cadmium as Dangerous for Children as Lead?02-10-12
Nuclear Reactor Approved in U.S. for First Time Since 197802-09-12
Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms Reversed in Mice02-09-12
Widespread Plasticizer Clouds Doping Tests of Cyclists02-09-12
Success Is Official: Russian Team Breaches Buried Antarctic Lake02-08-12
Sight Seen: Gene Therapy Restores Vision in Both Eyes02-08-12
Fasting Might Boost Chemo's Cancer-Busting Properties02-08-12
Custom-Designed Proteins Could Counteract Chemical Weapons02-07-12
Popular Opinion on Climate Change Traced to Political Elites02-07-12
Signal for Higgs Boson Particle Gains Strength02-07-12
Higgs Boson Signal Gains Strength02-07-12
Russian Team Has Reached Buried Antarctic Lake, Reports Say02-07-12
Bright-Sized: Skull Study Shows Eye-Sockets Have Grown Larger at Higher Latitudes02-06-12
Hunter's Moons: Astronomers Use Kepler Spacecraft to Search for Exomoons02-06-12
Cracks in the Plaques: Mysteries of Alzheimer's Slowly Yielding to New Research02-06-12
Human Waste-Powered Robots May Be Future of Machines02-05-12
Russian Scientists Poised to be First to Reach Ice-Buried Antarctic Lake02-04-12
Is It Ethical to Own an iPhone?02-03-12
Virtual Reality Contact Lenses Could Be Available by 201402-03-12
Temperatures--Not Acid--Could Cook Coral to Death02-02-12
Newfound Alien Planet is Best Candidate Yet to Support Life, Scientists Say02-02-12
Thanks to Plants, We Will Never Find A Planet Like Earth02-01-12
Did Leonardo da Vinci Copy His Famous "Vitruvian Man"?01-31-12
Word-of-Mind: Researchers Decode Words from the Brain's Auditory Activity01-31-12
Gigantic Radio Telescope to Search for First Stars and Galaxies01-31-12
Volcanoes May Have Sparked Little Ice Age01-31-12
Did Leonardo da Vinci Copy his Famous 'Vitruvian Man'?01-31-12
Marijuana Mouth Spray: Will Cancer Pain Reliever Be Abused?01-31-12
Redefining Autism: Will New DSM-5 Criteria for ASD Exclude Some People?01-30-12
Fear-Resistance: How Worried Should We Be about "Totally Drug-Resistant" Tuberculosis?01-30-12
By The Numbers: Autism Is Not a Math Problem01-30-12
Redefining Autism: Will New DSM-5 Criteria for ASD Exclude Some People?01-30-12
How Google's New Privacy Policy Could Affect You01-27-12
Primitive Attraction: Magnetized Moon Rock Points to Lunar Core's Active Past01-26-12
Race and Religion at the Ballot Box: Building a Better Bias Detector01-26-12
Children May Be Exposed to Higher Chemical Concentrations Than Their Mothers01-26-12
Has Petroleum Production Peaked, Ending the Era of Easy Oil?01-25-12
Tame Theory: Did Bonobos Domesticate Themselves?01-25-12
Why The Supreme Court GPS Decision Won't Stop Warrantless Digital Surveillance01-25-12
Women Feel Pain More Intensely Than Men Do01-24-12
The Scientist: Jim Hansen Risks Handcuffs to Make His Research Clear01-24-12
Women Feel Pain More Intensely Than Men01-24-12
Online Gamers Achieve First Crowd-Sourced Redesign of Protein01-23-12
Study Fails to Confirm Existence of Arsenic-Based Life01-23-12
New Target Discovered for Pain Relief01-23-12
Online Gamers Achieve First Crowdsourced Redesign of Protein01-23-12
Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed?01-20-12
Fracking Would Emit Large Quantities of Greenhouse Gases01-20-12
Scientists Call for 60-Day Suspension of Mutant Flu Research01-20-12
Leap Second Granted Extra Time01-20-12
Catching a Gravity Wave: Canceled Laser Space Antenna May Still Fly01-20-12
Solar Swan Song: NASA Satellite Witnesses a Comet's Plunge into the Sun01-19-12
Genetically Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed into Ethanol01-19-12
Dirty Dancing: Dung Beetles Get Down to Walk the Line01-18-12
Rainforest in Transition: Is the Amazon Transforming before Our Eyes?01-18-12
Trumpeter Swans Rebound, with an Assist from Global Warming01-18-12
SOPA Opera: White House Shuts Down Online Anti-Piracy Bill01-17-12
SOPA Opera: White House Shuts Down Proposed Online Anti-Piracy Bill01-17-12
Green Chemist: A Q&A with Departing EPA Science Advisor Paul Anastas01-17-12
Test Tube Yeast Evolve Multicellularity01-16-12
EPA Sees Risks to Water, Workers in New York State Fracking Rules01-14-12
EPA Sees Risks to Water, Workers In New York Fracking Rules01-14-12
Jet Lag: What's Causing One of the Driest, Warmest Winters in History?01-12-12
How to Buy Time in the Fight against Climate Change: Mobilize to Stop Soot and Methane01-12-12
Red-Wine Researcher Implicated in Data Misconduct Case01-12-12
Anti-GM Groups Attempt to Sully Transgenic Control of Dengue Fever01-12-12
Three Tiny Exoplanets Suggest Solar System Not So Special01-12-12
Shape-Shifting: Researchers Change How Monkeys See in 3-D01-11-12
A Plenitude of Planets: Galactic Search Finds Exoplanets Are More Commonplace Than Stars01-11-12
Smart Phone Makers Gave India Spy Tools, "Leaked" Memos Say01-10-12
Doomsday Clock Moved 1 Minute Closer to Midnight01-10-12
Casual Marijuana Smoking Not Harmful to Lungs01-10-12
Airport Screeners to Be Monitored for Radiation01-10-12
The $1,000 Human Genome: Are We There Yet?01-10-12
Smartphone Makers Gave India Spy Tools, 'Leaked' Memos Say01-10-12
Biggest Map Yet of Universe's Invisible Dark Matter Unveiled01-10-12
What If There Were No Gravity?01-10-12
Airport Screeners to be Monitored for Radiation, TSA Says01-10-12
Ballot Secrecy Keeps Voting Technology at Bay01-10-12
PAIN Relief: India on Track to Be Declared Polio-Free Next Month01-09-12
Shelf-Preservation: Researchers Tap Century-Old Brain Tissue for Clues to Mental Illness01-09-12
Baby Monkeys With 6 Genomes Are Scientific First01-07-12
U.S. Snow Drought Could Have Serious Implications01-05-12
1.3 Billion Workers to Go Mobile by 201501-05-12
Scientists Make Supersoldier Ants01-05-12
Can Mountain Dew Really Dissolve a Mouse Carcass?01-05-12
Forget Ritalin and Cramming: Molecular Pathways in the Brain May Reveal the Best Learning Strategies01-05-12
Ohm Run: One-Atom-Tall Wires Could Extend Life of Moore's Law01-05-12
Ohio Earthquake Likely Caused by Fracking Wastewater01-04-12
Yeti Crabs, Ghost Octopi Found at 1st Antarctic Deep-Sea Vents01-04-12
Call to Censor Bird Flu Studies Draws Fire01-03-12
Deep-Brain Stimulation Found to Fix Depression Long-Term01-03-12
Key Findings on Higgs Boson, Alzheimer's Drugs, Lake Vostok Set to Emerge in 201201-03-12
World's Only Known Natural Quasicrystal Traced to Ancient Meteorite01-03-12
Duh! 11 Obvious Science Findings of 201112-31-11
Why Women Report Being in Worse Health than Men12-30-11
Our Galaxy's "Big Ears": Milky Way's Large Companion Galaxies Stand Out12-30-11
Is It Time to Overhaul the Calendar?12-29-11
Aging Brains Match Youth in Some Mental Tasks12-28-11
Case Closed? Columbus Introduced Syphilis to Europe12-27-11
Doh! Top Science Journal Retractions of 201112-27-11
Doh! Top Science Journal Retractions of 2011 Doh! Top Science Journal Retractions of 201112-27-11
Meth Hype Could Undermine Good Medicine12-27-11
Huge Oilfield Off Coast of Nigeria Shut Down After Leak12-23-11
Fearless Youth: Prozac Extinguishes Anxiety by Rejuvenating the Brain12-22-11
The Elephant in the Room: How Contraception Could Save Future Elephants from Culling12-22-11
Could Public Health Benefits Make Combating Climate Change Free?12-21-11
Family Gold Mining Poisons Children in Nigeria12-21-11
Pharmacies Mislead Teens on Morning-After Pill12-20-11
It's a Small World: Kepler Spacecraft Discovers First Known Earth-Size Exoplanets12-20-11
Is North Korea the 9th Nation in the World with Nuclear Weapons?12-20-11
Vitamin D Prevents Fractures, But Role in Cancer Remains Unclear12-20-11
Philippines Searches for Hundreds After Typhoon Kills 65012-19-11
Japan Says Stricken Nuclear Power Plant in Cold Shutdown12-16-11
Women's Response to Alcohol Suggests Need for Gender-Specific Treatment Programs12-16-11
China Scales Up Solar Power by 50 Percent12-15-11
Amundsen Becomes First to Reach South Pole, December 14, 191112-14-11
Caught on Video: A Himalayan Glacier Deflates12-15-11
U.S. Exempts Species Classified as Endangered in the Rest of the World [Slide Show]12-14-11
South Pole Discovered, December 14, 191112-14-11
U.S. Exempts Species Classified as Endangered in the Rest of the World12-14-11
Safety Management Issues Led to 2010 Gulf Oil Spill: Report12-14-11
Safety Management Issues Lead to 2010 Gulf Oil Spill: Report12-14-11
Gas Guzzler: Cloud Could Soon Meet Its Demise in Milky Way's Black Hole12-14-11
Off the Beam: Did a U.S. Radar Research Station Disable Russia's Phobos Probe?12-14-11
Tantalizing Hints of Elusive Higgs Particle Announced [Update]12-13-11
U.S. Stillbirths Still Prevalent, Often Unexplained12-13-11
Tantalizing Hints of Elusive Higgs Particle Announced [Updated]12-13-11
Tantalizing Hints of Elusive Higgs Particle Announced12-13-11
Brominated Battle: Soda Chemical Has Cloudy Health History12-12-11
Climate Talks Consensus: All Countries Should Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions--In Future12-11-11
Climate Talks Consensus: All Countries Should Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Future12-11-11
EPA: Natural Gas Fracking Linked to Water Contamination12-09-11
Natural Gas Fracking Linked to Water Contamination by Federal Agency12-09-11
Contagion: Controversy Erupts over Man-Made Pandemic Avian Flu Virus12-09-11
NASA Looks to 3-D Printing for Spare Parts for Space Station12-08-11
Spam Hits Lowest Point Since 200812-08-11
Jailbreak Rat: Selfless Rodents Spring Their Pals and Share Their Sweets12-08-11
Cache Cab: Taxi Drivers' Brains Grow to Navigate London's Streets12-08-11
Has the Higgs Been Discovered? Physicists Gear Up for Watershed Announcement12-08-11
Genetics Explain How Bedbugs Infest a Building--or a Country12-08-11
Climate Negotiations Fail to Keep Pace with Science12-08-11
Childhood Obesity Best Battled in Schools, Research Finds12-07-11
Bio--Jet Fuel Struggles to Balance Profit with Sustainability12-05-11
Earth Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile to Agriculture12-06-11
Planet Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile to Agriculture12-06-11
Bio–Jet Fuel Struggles to Balance Profit with Sustainability12-05-11
Chimps Experience Synesthetic Sense-Intermingling, Like Humans Do12-05-11
Egg Timer: Separate Biological Clocks Govern Female Fertility and Life Span12-05-11
Bio-Jet Fuel Struggles to Balance Profit with Sustainability12-05-11
Printers Can Be Hacked to Catch Fire11-29-11
FDA to Approve New Generics, But Health Care Savings Will Be Minimal12-05-11
Was Jane Austen Poisoned by Arsenic? Science May Soon Find Out12-05-11
Three-Quarters of Climate Change Is Man-Made12-05-11
Quantum Entanglement Links 2 Diamonds12-01-11
Human Genome Untangled in 3-D [Video]12-02-11
Is Child Sexual Abuse on the Rise?12-02-11
Whales Win, Walruses Lose in Warmer Arctic12-02-11
New Flu Strain Makes Health Experts Nervous12-02-11
Quantum Entanglement Links Two Diamonds12-01-11
Fukushima Earthquake Moved Seafloor Half a Football Field12-01-11
Gumming Up Appetite to Treat Obesity12-01-11
U.S. Seeks to Protect Forests to Save Wild Reindeer11-30-11
Printers Can Be Hacked to Catch on Fire11-29-11
Can Male Circumcision Stem the AIDS Epidemic in Africa?11-29-11
Ravens Use 'Hand' Gestures to Communicate11-29-11
Climate Change Boosts Lethal Hendra Virus11-29-11
Computer Model Spots Image Fraud11-29-11
Do MRIs Relieve Symptoms of Depression?11-28-11
Scientists Make the "Perfect" Foam11-28-11
Last Chance for Kyoto Protocol: Nearly 200 Nations Begin Climate Talks11-28-11
Scientists Make the 'Perfect' Foam11-28-11
Atrazine in Water Tied to Hormonal Irregularities11-28-11
Scan't Evidence: Do MRIs Relieve Symptoms of Depression?11-28-11
Price on Carbon Failing to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions11-28-11
Next Stop Mars! Huge NASA Rover Launches toward Red Planet11-26-11
Amping Up Brain Function: Transcranial Stimulation Shows Promise in Speeding Up Learning11-25-11
NASA's Massive Curiosity Rover Nears Launch toward Mars11-24-11
Eating Turkey Does Not Really Make You Sleepy11-23-11
Will Energy Storage Play a Big Role in the Electric Grid?11-22-11
New Theory Explains What Makes a Video Go Viral11-21-11
Solar Eclipse on Friday Could Wow Small Audience11-21-11
Historian Hunts for Motives Behind Climate Change Doubt-Mongering: A Q&A with Naomi Oreskes11-21-11
Current Developments: Innovative Ideas on How to Make Electric Cars Cost-Efficient Take Shape11-21-11
Fifth Giant Planet May Have Dwelled in Our Solar System11-18-11
Extra Giant Planet May Have Dwelled in Our Solar System11-18-11
Digital Movies to Replace Film by 201511-18-11
New Clues for Improving Antibiotics for Tolerant Bacteria11-18-11
Late Bloomers: "New" Genes May Have Played a Role in Human Brain Evolution11-18-11
Many Teens Rely on the Pill for Non-Sexual Reasons11-17-11
Moon May Outshine Leonid Meteor Shower Tonight11-17-11
Seeing the Big (and Small) Picture: Panoramic Tool Lets Users Observe Dynamic Imagery11-17-11
Surety Bond: Breast-Feeding May Increase Children's IQ11-16-11
Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at U.S. Airports11-15-11
Cyberwar Most Likely to Take Place Among Smaller Powers, Experts Say11-14-11
New Space Station Crew Launches in Spectacular Snowy Display11-14-11
Most Popular Skywatching Misconceptions Explained11-14-11
Gas Drillers Risk Backlash Unless Health Protections Improve11-14-11
Did Fracking Cause Oklahoma's Largest Recorded Earthquake?11-14-11
Why Penn State Students Rioted—They Deify Joe Paterno11-10-11
U.S. East Coast Tsunami Risk Investigated with Sonar11-10-11
Fresh Start: Scientists Glimpse Unsullied Traces of the Infant Universe11-10-11
Why Penn State Students Rioted--They Deify Joe Paterno11-10-11
Why Penn State Students Rioted They Deify Joe Paterno11-10-11
World's 10 Worst Toxic Pollution Problems [Slide Show]11-10-11
East Coast Tsunami Risk Investigated with Sonar11-10-11
EPA Finds Fracking Compound in Wyoming Aquifer11-10-11
Specious Species: Fight against Seafood Fraud Enlists DNA Testing11-10-11
The Pollinator Crisis: What's Best for Bees?11-10-11
Is Money Wasted Preparing for a Major Midwest Quake?11-10-11
Discredited Vaccine-Autism Researcher Defended by Whistleblower Group11-10-11
"Snowicane" to Rev Up Pacific Northwest Storm Train11-09-11
'Snowicane' to Rev Up Northwest Storm Train11-09-11
Russian Engineers Race to Save Troubled Mars Moon Probe11-09-11
Russia Launching Probe to Sample Mars's Moon Phobos Today11-08-11
Mississippi to Vote on "Personhood" of Fertilized Eggs11-01-11
Russia Launching Probe to Sample Mars' Moon Phobos Today11-08-11
6 Mock Mars Explorers Emerge from 17-Month "Mission"11-04-11
6 Mock Mars Explorers Emerge from 17-Month 'Mission'11-04-11
Prolonged Sitting Linked to Breast and Colon Cancers11-03-11
More Efficient Dyed Cells Offer Hope for Cheap Solar Windows11-03-11
Your Brain on Facebook : Bigger Social Networks Expand the Size of Neural Networks11-03-11
Why Pioneers Breed Like Rabbits11-03-11
Wet Down: Warm, Wet Conditions on Ancient Mars May Have Been Confined to Subsurface11-03-11
Gaining Time: Cystic Fibrosis Drug Shows Rapid Benefits11-02-11
Cystic Fibrosis Drug Shows Rapid Benefits11-02-11
Can Climate Science Predict Extreme Weather?11-02-11
Arithmetic Progression: U.S. Education Assessment Shows Modest but Steady Gains in Math Scores11-01-11
Mississippi to Vote on 'Personhood' of Fertilized Eggs11-01-11
U.S. Glossed Over Cancer Concerns Associated with Airport X-ray Scanners11-01-11
Wireless Services Increasingly Strained As Mobile Explodes11-01-11
Photographic Memory: Wearable Cam Could Help Patients Stave Off Effects of Impaired Recall10-31-11
Drilling Ship to Probe Fault Zone that Caused Fukushima Quake10-31-11
The Ductile Helix: "Jumping Genes" May Influence Brain Activity10-30-11
Behind-the-Scenes at the National Hurricane Center10-28-11
Hard Rock: Asteroid Lutetia May Be an Intact Leftover from Planetary Formation10-28-11
Boys Should Get HPV Vaccine, Too, CDC Says10-26-11
It's Official: Fungus Causes Bat-Killing White-Nose Syndrome10-26-11
Boys Should Get HPV Vaccine Too, CDC Says10-26-11
Fukushima Nuclear Plant Released Far More Radiation than Government Said10-25-11
Yukon River Dumping More Mercury Thanks to Climate Change10-25-11
Soggy Solar System: Exoplanet Nursery Holds Massive Amount of Water10-24-11
EPA Plans to Issue Rules for Fracking Wastewater10-21-11
Cyclops Shark Joins Ranks of Cryptic Creatures10-21-11
Art Loft: Space Station Artwork on Display in New York City [Slide Show]10-20-11
Chlorine Accidents Take a Big Human Toll10-20-11
Longevity Shown for First Time to Be Inherited via a Non-DNA Mechanism10-19-11
Preliminary Human Experiments to Test Safety of Nerve Cell Transplants for Spinal Cord Paralysis10-19-11
Longevity Shown for First Time to Be Inherited via Non-DNA Mechanism10-19-11
Preliminary Human Experiments to Test Safety of Paralysis Treatment Using Nerve Cells10-19-11
Fukushima Debris On Course to Hit U.S.10-18-11
Vacuum Tube: Kids under 2 Should Not Watch Television10-18-11
First Commercial Spaceport Hangar Dedicated in New Mexico10-17-11
Dead German Satellite Will Fall to Earth This Week10-17-11
Disaster's Aftermath: Assessing Hurricane Irene's Damage10-14-11
Russian Rocket Failure Shouldn't Force Space Station Evacuation, NASA Tells Lawmakers10-13-11
Robot Allows High-Speed Testing of Chemicals10-13-11
Leading Light: What Would Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Mean for Physics?10-13-11
EPA Scientist Points at Fracking in Fish-Kill Mystery10-12-11
Hungry for Knowledge, with Oliver Smithies10-12-11
How Black Death Kept Its Genes but Lost Its Killing Power [Video]10-12-11
Environmental Chemicals May Prove Obstacle for Infertile Couples10-12-11
EPA Scientist Points at Fracking in Fish Kill Mystery10-12-11
Famous for Being Fatuous: Celebs and Pols Say the Darnedest Things--Especially about Science10-12-11
Was the FBI's Science Good Enough to ID the Anthrax Killer?10-11-11
Tip off: Solving the Curious Case of the Missing Fingerprints10-11-11
U.S. Neighborhoods Struggle with Health Threats from Traffic Pollution10-11-11
A Day on Neptune Is Less Than 16 Hours Long10-10-11
Tiny Drone Reveals Ancient Royal Burial Sites10-10-11
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors Discoverer of Quasicrystals [Video]10-05-11
Smoking Is a Drag at the Box Office10-10-11
Smoking Is a Drag at the Box-Office10-10-11
Sensors and the City: IBM Exhibit Visualizes Today's Urban Problems--and Potential Solutions [Slide Show]10-08-11
Double Impact: Did 2 Giant Collisions Turn Uranus on Its Side?10-07-11
A Video Moment of Silence for Steve Jobs10-06-11
A Life in Science, with Elizabeth Blackburn10-06-11
Steve Jobs Dies at 5610-06-11
Bench or Bedside? A Conversation with Ferid Murad10-05-11
Drone On: Will the FAA Open U.S. Skies to Unmanned Aircraft?10-05-11
Conjoined Comet: Hartley 2 May Have Formed from 2 Disparate Bodies10-05-11
Drone On: Will FAA Open U.S. Skies to Unmanned Aircraft?10-05-11
Texture Messaging: Breakthrough May Help Spinal Cord Patients Experience Tactile Sensations10-05-11
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors Discoverer of Quasicrystals10-05-11
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry10-05-11
Planetary Pretender: Asteroid Vesta Has Planet-Like Features10-04-11
Depressed Patients May Process Hate Feelings Differently10-04-11
Discovery of Accelerating Universe Wins 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics10-04-11
Dark Energy Wins Nobel Prize in Physics10-04-11
Hot, Odd and Curious: NASA Orbiter Reveals Mercury to Be Surprisingly Complex10-03-11
Discoveries Concerning Innate and Adaptive Immunity Win 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [Update]10-03-11
Many U.S. Drinking Water Wells Contaminated with Arsenic, Other Elements10-03-11
Discoveries Concerning Innate and Adaptive Immunity Win 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine10-03-11
Discoveries Concerning Innate and Adaptive Immunity Win 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology10-03-11
Watch the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Announcement at 5:30 AM ET [Webcast]10-03-11
SpaceX Unveils Plan for World's First Fully Reusable Rocket09-30-11
Error and Trial: Italian Scientists Face Prison as Earthquake Manslaughter Hearing Resumes This Weekend09-30-11
Why Are More Deaths Expected in the Cantaloupe-Related Listeria Outbreak?09-29-11
Why Are More Deaths Expected in the Cantaloupe-Related Listeria Outbreak?09-29-11
Geothermal Power Plants Could Help Produce Lithium for Electric Cars09-29-11
More Deaths Expected in Cantaloupe-Related Listeria Outbreak: CDC09-29-11
Afghanistan Holds Enormous Bounty of Rare Earths, Minerals09-29-11
'Patent Trolls' Target Biotechnology Firms09-28-11
Test Pits Earthquake Forecasts Against Each Other09-28-11