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Amelia Earhart's disappearance during an attempt to fly around the world remains a mystery, but recent expeditions may have found clues to her fate.

It's now wireless-or-bust for residents of Mantoloking, N.J. Verizon will not rebuild its copper-line telephone network in Mantoloking, N.J., a community of about 300 that was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, Asbury Park P...

News analysis: What happens to anti-gun legislation when people can just make weapons in their homes? The Liberator, the 3-D printed gun that we reported on earlier today, is proof-of-concept for an inevitable and danger...

-- Higgs hunters look beyond the Standard Model -- Dark Matter Chase Begins in form of Tiny Bubbles -- Fermilab's Dark Matter Detector Key Part of Future -- New detector begins search for elusive dark matter -- Dark Matt...

Defense Distributed creates a fully functional gun, with 3-D printed plastic parts. It started with a crowdfunding project last August. Now, nine months later, the world's first 3-D printed gun is here. Announced via For...

High-speed video reveals how a bat uses the hairs on the tip of its tongue to slurp nectar more efficiently

Most independent inventors don't have bottomless bank accounts. To fund their dreams, many innovators are appealing to strangers on the Web for help. Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler weighs in on this growing sour...

If the campaign raises more than $400,000, they'll not only complete the Arabidopsis work, but bring illumination to the already beautiful rose as well.

If you're a scientist these days, getting the money to do your research is a lot like getting into Stanford or Yale. Assuming you aren't rich or connected, being incredibly skilled, hardworking and accomplished isn't eno...

It sounds impossible but it's true. The sea level around a melting ice cap will fall even as distant shores are inundated (full text available to subscribers)

A household lamp powered by a bag of rocks. More than 780 million people rely on kerosene to light their homes. But the fuel is pricey and is toxic when burned--not to mention a fire hazard. In 2008, London-based product...

When biologist E. O. Wilson gave seemingly counterintuitive advice in his book Letters to a Young Scientist, it didn't go down well - in the media at least

The pesky insect of the future Harvard researchers have developed Robo-fly, the smallest flying robot out there: it's tinier than a quarter and weighs about one-tenth of a paperclip. Using electric muscles, the little gu...

The number of cracks in glass reveal the strength of projectile impacts

If China's bird flu acquires the ability to spread between people, we don't have the drugs or vaccines to tackle a pandemic, warns Debora MacKenzie