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The Supreme Court is hearing a case on a key question: can you patent a human gene?

Carbon is one of the most abundant elements and forms a very large number of compounds, including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and carbon disulfide.

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A new bird-friendly wind turbine Farzad Safaei's recent invention looks a bit like window frames--complete with Venetian blinds built inside--but it's actually a new wind turbine design. Safaei, an electrical engineer at...

The new Inactive Account Manager feature is designed to take care of all of your Google assets - whether emails on Gmail or YouTube videos - when you die

Fishermen in Japan have adopted a new way of dispatching dolphins in drive hunts but the method is no more humane than previous techniques

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Devices inside pills could monitor health issues or deliver targeted cancer drugs. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing edible electronic devices that could monitor health, deliver drugs, or stimulate...

New Summer School Offers Students Training on Hottest Topics in Particle Physics -- (Vancouver, BC) --- Graduate students around the world who are pursuing particle physics now have a new destination for expanding their ...

The streets have no name in the Mojave but Joshua trees may have found what they're looking for as they burst into flower, with or without you

President Vladimir Putin has announced a space initiative to put a person on Mars, build a moon base, and shoot down any foreign threats. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans for a new space initiative today....

Ducks are getting ready to make their seasonal migration away from San Francisco Bay. Come see them in their breeding finery before they're gone for the summer.

Lisa Grossman plumbs the depths of the Soudan Mine in Minnesota to see two rival detectors striving to find traces of WIMP dark matter

"That'll be 0.17637075920 BTC, please." A bar called EVR opened up near our office a few months ago--one of the very few New York City establishments that accept payment in Bitcoins, the anonymous, decentralized, open-so...

In the heat of the moment, online players often hurl abuse at one another - crowd-based justice can help bring them back into line

Up to two-thirds of planetary systems may have empty orbits where a world could sit happily, according to recent data from the Kepler space telescope

Combat lasers that blow up hostile craft and are cheap to fire will soon be deployed at sea, but issues such as the risk of friendly fire remain unsolved

Watch a person drive a model boat with a flick of the wrist thanks to a new hack for the Leap Motion controller

Hot air, health status of the dead, Leninist link to dinosaurs, and more (full text available to subscribers)

A previously unknown side chamber under the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone national park is changing our picture of this famously reliable geyser

The most comprehensive maps yet of the the internet's infrastructure could help shore it up against disasters and sabotage

A family of beavers has taken up residence in the Guadalupe River, across from the HP Pavilion.