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While the row over the Keystone XL pipeline rumbles on, other tar sands pipelines are proving equally controversial

Properties, sources and uses of the element zinc.

Properties, sources and uses of the element copper.

One nation, under True Blood. What are middle-aged men watching on YouTube in your city? With the new YouTube Trends Map, you can now check out what videos are going viral in real-time in different regions of the U.S., f...

A new climbing robot uses temperature-controlled gluey feet to haul itself up vertical walls of wood, rock and metal while carrying five times its bodyweight

A $30 ride made of recycled packaging, bottles, and car parts. One day in 2009, Israeli engineer Izhar Gafni sat in a quiet library designing a machine to extract seeds from pomegranates when his mind drifted to cycling,...

Here's a repulsive idea: a newly launched satellite uses a superthin thread of positively charged string that repels protons fired out by the sun, propelling the craft

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Most of the modern languages in Eurasia can be traced back to a single mother tongue that existed around the time of the last ice age

It's plastic but the future of the first printed handgun may be far from fantastic

Analyses of ancient rocks suggests that Earth's tectonic activity was at its most boistrous 1.1 billion years ago and has been settling down ever since

Technology allows us to achieve great things - so many goods are made affordable, for example, by mass production. But when mass production is not responsibly planned out and regulated, trash starts piling up.

While most people are out enjoying the warmer weather spring offers, there are some who cannot wait to make their way underground. With the rainy season behind us, California Caverns are opening up for those who aren't a...

Discover a mental, physical, emotional or sensory ability you never knew you possessed by taking a scientific approach to testing your limits (full text available to subscribers)

Gold Rush in the Jungle is Dan Drollette's cracking book about wildlife discovery and protection in Vietnam that may prove overly optimistic

New-found unicorns in the jungle, apes in the treetops and mountain-climbing snails are facing extinction. Take a look at five new disappearing species

Hamzah Mohd Salleh's lab is trying to ensure the world's 1.6 billion Muslims can stick to their religion's strict halal rules

The human brain is the command center for the human nervous system.