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Properties, sources and uses of the element phosphorus.

Properties, sources and uses of the element sulfur.

This weekend, NASA led the International Space Apps Challenge, a hackaton to solve the many challenges facing life on earth and in space. It sounded like a big project, but we didn't quite expect this: it's apparently th...

Calling all students on this Earth Day: Do you make it a regular practice to care for the environment? If so, what do you do? If not, why?

Bullets work way differently in real life than they do in movies. Ever wonder why the people taking cell phone videos of gunfights aren't themselves hit by bullets? Turns out, there's no good explanation other than dumb ...

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It is impractical! And cool! And we would like to fly it. For Hyundai's annual Idea Festival--a Wacky Races-style competition where engineers show off the most bonkers ideas they can dream up--a team unveiled this crazy ...

Coming up with an answer that's satisfactory to the researchers, doctors and patients who have a stake in the case is turning out to be as knotty as the genome itself.

A new technique, developed by a scientist who'd already contributed an extraordinary tool to neuroscience, literally allows scientists to peer directly into the brain by making it transparent.

The budget proposal by the Obama administration is a mixed bag in terms of funding for science.

A creationist once held up a banana as proof of God but this is a fruit very much made by humans. Bob Holmes tells its story (full text available to subscribers)

Just never, ever transfer and you might be okay! You're heading home for the holidays or vacation when--whoops!--your bag falls into the clutches of the airline underbelly. What happened? Well, it could've been a lot of ...

Software turns simple line drawings into 3-D objects. A new project on Kickstarter allows amateur artists to 3-D print their simple 2-D doodles. The Doodle3D Wifi Box is designed to connect any wireless drawing device (i...

The last few test flights this week mean Solar Impulse is nearly ready to begin its attempt to fly across the US under sunshine power alone

Housed 1400 metres underground in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, DarkSide-50 looks for the telltale signs of a dark matter strike

Fluorescent proteins can help scientists detect cancer behavior in mice.

A pair of local young artists have won a big environmental prize.

Schools and wider society must wake up to the distinct sleep needs of adolescents, says circadian biology expert Russell Foster