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Amazing new plane keeps catching on fire. Here are the questions you've been asking and the answers you need. This article was originally published on January 17, 2013.--Eds. Q: What is the 787 Dreamliner and why do we c...

More mental stimulation seems to be behind an improvement in cognitive performance for the oldest members of society, shows a Danish study

DIY wildfire defense A wildfire had already burned 20 to 30 acres of Colorado farmer Eric Howard's 80-acre plot Monday when he hopped into his tractor and began drawing an improvised firebreak, a gap in the ground used t...

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After a bewildering start, Stella by Siobhán Nicholas draws the audience in to its parallel, millennia-spanning stories of women in astronomy

NASA recently concluded a successful six-week test of a prototype polar rover near the highest point in Greenland, where the robotic vehicle traversed icy terrain in temperatures of minus 30 Celsius to help scientists le...

Global warming threatens to put many species on thin ice. But changing temperatures seems to have sparked new life in a group of Antarctic sea sponges

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We'll never again have it as good as we did in the late 1970s if social and environmental ills aren't factored into assessments of national prosperity

(Vancouver, BC) --- In an unusual alliance between TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for nuclear and particle physics, and the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) in Japan, a l...