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A new study questions conventional wisdom on antibiotics - that a course should be taken to completion and that drug combinations can be more effective

For the first time since the Chemical Weapons Convention came into force in 1997, UN inspectors are to investigate alleged misuse of chemical weapons

-- Should we change the Higgs boson's name? -- Scientists in Catfight to Rename Higgs -- What's in a name? An H, an i, two g's and an s -- Higgs boson: Call to rename particle to acknowledge other scientists -- How does ...

How a high-profile hack fell apart within seconds, and why good intentions are often the most efficient way to destroy lives. About an hour ago, the Associated Press's official Twitter account, @AP, issued this tweet (it...

Nice place, bad neighborhood Brazil's Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station, a permanent research base operated by the country's Navy, was destroyed by a fire in February 2012. Architectural firm Triptyque Arquitetura ente...

New tools are emerging that will allow the police to use social media to track down suspects on the run (full text available to subscribers)

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Virtual water that actually looks close to water Water almost never looks quite like water when it's rendered: there a lot of variables involved with a fluid splashing around, after all. But this virtual water looks pret...

The Mars One project has officially opened its application process for wannabe astronauts willing to go on a televised mission to the Red Planet

What started as an atypical request by the FBI to gather evidence from the public quickly morphed into a much uglier digital witch hunt, one where the crowd's fears, prejudices, and suspicions were given credence, while ...

The weightlessness of space makes it a unique place to conduct experiments that can't be done on Earth, like growing perfect protein crystals, finding out how rat memory changes in zero G, and finding out what happens wh...

You may not eat insects now, but if they looked as attractive as they are nutritious, would you join the 80 per cent of the world's population that does?

A new video shows slivers of tissue that mimic human livers to improve drug testing - they bring lab-grown organs for transplant a step closer too

Add this to your tiny pencil case - a measuring tool made of gold might help us see how DNA moves as it replicates

What happens when our two greatest theories of reality meet? Soon quantum theory and relativity could be slugging it out above our heads (full text available to subscribers)

An FBI forensic video instructor reveals how investigators will sort through reams of video footage in preparation for the eventual trial of Dzhokar Tsarnaev. It was a 7-Eleven's security footage that helped trace Tamerl...

A huge cloud of ammonia vented from the fertiliser plant in West, Texas, is one theory for what caused last week's fatal explosion

Kashiwa Japan - A team of researchers at the Kavli IPMU led by Robert Quimby has identified what may prove to be the first ever Type Ia supernova (SNIa) magnified by a strong gravitational lens. In this work, the 'standa...

UK scientists are developing the whaling-inspired technology. When we shoot something into space, we leave stuff behind; that stuff becomes space junk. It's a real problem when we're trying to shoot more stuff into space...

Engineer Azzam Alwash is intent on restoring the fabled Mesopotamian marshes in southern Iraq that Saddam Hussein tried to wreck

Nearly every region of the world has influenced the customs and traditions of the United States.