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Some obscenely bright stellar explosions are undermining our attempts to work out why the universe is accelerating (full text available to subscribers)

A busy, if slow-moving, year in the life of a robot we crashed onto an alien world. The Mars rover Curiosity has spent the past year driving around the surface of of its new home, drilling and digging and collecting samp...

A camera-collar lets you vicariously swim and frolic and eat raw fish. Meet Tasul, a polar bear at the Oregon Zoo taking part in a research project to help zoologists understand polar bear behavior (and maybe, by extensi...

The world could soon be a more violent place, according to research that pools existing studies on climate and conflict, but its conclusion is contentious

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The Catlin Seaview Survey plans to map all the world's reefs. With the Great Barrier Reef done, the team is now heading to the more damaged Caribbean

Remember watching Tony Stark design his Iron Man suit with a few flicks of his hands, rearranging digital parts and pieces projected in midair? It'll be like that. Or even better, it'll be like Tom Cruise in Minority Rep...

The US's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program feeds nearly 48 million people, but may soon suffer deep cuts. Will a big research opportunity be missed?

The parent of the Chelyabinsk meteor, which exploded over Russia earlier this year, may have been a known rock cluster that could pose a future threat

-- After Higgs breakthrough, CERN readies for next cosmic quest -- First experimental signs of a New Physics beyond the Standard Model -- Photons May Emit Faster-Than-Light Particles, Physicists Suggest -- Standard Model...

Scientists think they might have pinpointed where the infamous Russian meteorite of 2013 came from. Astronomers Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raul de la Fuente Marcos from the Complutense University of Madrid calculate...

How the buildup of small plastic particles could add up to big problems for Lake Erie, and the human and aquatic communities that depend on it.

Oh, you're a pro swimmer? Well, Swumanoid's an Olympian. Maybe you're really athletic. You're, say, a great basketball player, or you can do those fingertip push-ups the heroes do in kung-fu movies. That's great. But wha...

A lead balloon is a metaphor for something unpopular, but giant clouds of the heavy metal are helping to boost a theory of star evolution

Back in the 1980s, Biosphere 2 was created in Arizona as a trial Mars colony and to study several of Earth's ecosystems. Visit the site on our virtual tour

The Mesozoic Era saw the rise of some of the most iconic animals, from Tyrannosaurus rex to birds and mammals.