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Untreatable depression is on the rise, hinting at fundamental flaws in our understanding of the illness. But new treatments offer hope for everyone (full text available to subscribers)

Billy Glover explains how petroleum-based aviation fuel could disappear The Change Aviation has always run on petroleum. In fact, jet fuel had been the same from the dawn of the jet age up until about three years ago. Th...

In the astronaut's answer to ordering from the hardware store, NASA delivered tools and spare parts to help fix a suit that sprang a leak earlier this month

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New York's Bank of America Tower, a sprawling, 1,200-foot skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, was lauded as a triumph of green engineering when it opened in 2010. But as the New Republic is reporting today, the building doe...

It's a science lesson masquerading as a slow-motion video! The AK-47 is an iconic assault rifle, popular among revolutionaries and known for its rugged, reliable design. Thanks to the team at Smarter Every Day and The Sl...

The cooling effect of clouds may be what is standing between us and the sweltering conditions seen on Venus

What if we could reverse degenerative forms of blindness with but an injection of new cells? Stem cell therapies--still promising, if not particularly speedy--may someday do just that. A recent paper in the journal Natur...

-- Experimental quest to test Einstein's speed limit -- Confirmation that neutrinos do change 'flavor' -- Cern physicist Fabiola Gianotti on hunting for the 'God particle' -- Fermilab's giant magnet finally reaches desti...

It's a big-data look at the loss of lots of big data. That's pretty big. The internet is a giant vault where people store some of their most private information, trusting that the company holding on to it can keep it all...

Discovering symmetry's unsung heroine is all part of a very wild ride through Dave Goldberg's book The Universe in the Rearview Mirror

Years ago, I talked to astronaut Scott Parazynski shortly after he made a risky repair to an International Space Station solar panel. The interview focused on how Parazynski, as a former physician, used his medical train...

In Djenné, Mali, a green-fingered local takes some time to tend his garden in this runner-up photo from the Travel Photographer of the Year 2012 competition

Hopes that we have extra time to rein in emissions and avoid severe climate change are missing the bigger picture, says an energy industry watcher