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Since the late 1700s, the world's climate has been changing rapidly, mostly due to human causes.

The record-breaking twister in the city of El Reno was 2.6 miles across. On Friday, not even two weeks after a destructive tornado ran through Moore, Oklahoma, another twister hit the city of El Reno. At last count, 18 p...

Protesting? There's a map for that. Consider it civilian reconnaissance. Protesters in Turkey are using Google Maps to track police movement, plot out barricades, and rally together. Created Saturday, the map of Istanbul...

See an award-winning photo of a seal peeking through kelp, captured off the coast of California

Most workers and local people exposed to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident will not suffer ill health as a result, says UN report

As rising waters sweep through Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic, scientists say Europe must prepare for waterlogged years ahead

New antibody treatment halts the most deadly form of skin cancer in its tracks by prodding the immune system into action

Colorado now allows recreational marijuana use, but some are questioning its newly defined limit on how much of the drug drivers can have in their blood

Solving the mystery of the cicada's clamorous thrum This summer, billions of cicadas will rise from under the East Coast, shed their grub-like bodies, and clumsily fly to perches in trees, where they will make a terrible...

In a shining example of web collaboration, mathematicians are locked in a race to shrink the known distance between infinite pairs of primes

Fear and intimidation are far more common in nature than we realised, with surprising consequences not just for animals but for the entire landscape (full text available to subscribers)

From Door to Spore: a reporter explores a new service that strives to make household composting easier.

June 4, 2013 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) June 6, 6:00 - 6:30 am JST [ June 5, 21:00 - 21:30 UTC, June 5, 2:00 - 2:30 pm PDT ] Live Google Hangout: "The Hunt for Distant Ga...

From The Jazz Singer to Avatar in two prints. Design studio Dorothy (see: these awesome color wheels made from musicians and songs) have struck again with a set of "Star Charts" that map classic Hollywood films through c...

Densely populated areas in Los Angeles sit above huge deposits of shale oil, so campaigners are striving for a moratorium on fracking for oil in California

French wine is renowned. But Parisians would be shocked by the wine their ancestors started out making around 500 BC: it was an Italian white

A powered strap-on skeleton controlled by EEG signals is helping people who can't use their legs to walk - using thought alone

The United Nations wants us to eat more insects. Environmentalist Pat Crowley is on the case, with a company he co-founded to make cricket energy bars

The process has caused controversy for more than 60 years.

The death of Jairo Mora Sandoval shines a light on the dangers faced by those protecting turtle nests in areas used to smuggle narcotics

And create a law-abiding cloned version of wayward citizens The US Supreme Court ruled today on the case of Maryland v. King, deciding with a 5-4 majority to uphold the Maryland state law that considers a DNA test--in th...