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(Rutgers University) A new way to attack flu viruses is taking shape in laboratories at Rutgers University, where scientists have identified chemical agents that block the virus's ability to replicate itself in cell cult...

Large chunks of the National Weather Service--the group of scientists partially responsible for predicting extreme weather events, among many other important weather-related duties--are still working despite the governme...

A rhinoceros in Kruger Park, South Africa Harvey Barrison, via Wikimedia Commons Poachers tend to operate in places that are difficult to reach and far from law enforcement. For countries that want to protect their indig...

Reprinted from Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life among the Stars, by Lee Billings. With permission of Current, a member of Penguin Group (USA), LLC, A Penguin Random House... --

On October 7, the 2013 Nobel laureates will be announced. The selection process is highly secretive, and there’s plenty of speculation that surrounds them, much of it good natured but not very... --

A new health check on the state of the oceans warns that they are withering under a "deadly trio" of global threats     

    

Viruses imported from abroad or that mutate unexpectedly, including flu and MERS, could go undetected because of diminished federal disease monitoring     

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The world's biggest online drug marketplace has been taken down in a swoop that indicates the FBI's growing ability to probe the darker reaches of the net     

All the latest on newscientist.com: big bang, no boom? the world on fire that Voyager found, the hardest teeth on Earth, Virgin Galactic and more     

Virgin Galactic has announced a Survivor-like series that will send the winner to space. It joins a growing list of space-based reality TV show coming to a box near you     

Microwave Universe Jonathan Feldschuh, 2013 The European Space Agency calls the Planck satellite its "time machine." Launched in 2009, Planck spends its days collecting data on Cosmic Microwave Background, the faint radi...

In 1979, we thought we knew that the solar system beyond Earth was a cold, dead place. Then Voyager I found Io seething in the blackness     

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Inflation handily explains how the universe expanded after the big bang. But results from the Planck suggest it may all be a bit too convenient (full text available to subscribers)     

Preparing To Launch A Drone This is some Firefly-level futuristic Old West juxtaposition. 3D Robotics, via YouTube Sometimes it's hard to get the big picture from the ground. In a vineyard, the color of vines and signs o...

The ability to protect the online data trails we generate is welcome, but it is no substitute for a proper public debate on who owns the information     

Geneva, 4 October 2013. Seeing the invisible and discovering the meaning of life are the twin quests of CERN*'s first film maker in residence, Jan Peters the second winner of the Collide@CERN Geneva** prize, which is sup...

Radio-wave energised water, supernatural ice cream, measuring energy in toasted sandwiches and more (full text available to subscribers)     

The greatest source of climate uncertainty is political, not scientific. We can choose to limit warning, or we can take our chances in a hotter world     

(University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST) A recent study by researchers at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and the University of Rhode Island changes the understanding of how the Hawaiian Islands formed. Scientists have determine...