Science News

A company specializing in aerial filmography using radio-controlled planes wants to force the agency's hand on fines constraining for-profit drone use.

Studies show that jurors can be unduly influenced by these images and videos.

It doesn't take a Watson to realize that even the world's best supercomputers are staggeringly inefficient and energy-intensive machines.

Daylight saving time might save us money in energy consumption, but not without taking often overlooked tolls on our bodies.

Fleshy fish balls, a strange view of a butterfly's tongue and the anniversary of a Frankenstorm are just a few of the outstanding we found in Science this week.

There might be a link between fatherhood and urine spraying for mice. Male house mice that surpass their peers at marking their territory tend to have more offspring, according to a new study.

There's no legal bar to field tests of technology that might cool the planet - perhaps that's for the best     

Nature yields hidden fruits - beautiful patterns and basic relations that make our world. These and the adventure of the human mind in discovering them seem to me a great unharvested source of wonder for art.

Many theories have been suggested, running to the wildly fanciful and improbable such as proposals that the Earth's gravity was lower in the Mesozoic Era (around 252 to 66 million years ago).

Mount Elbrus is in the Caucasus Range, the mountains that separate Europe and Asia.

A GMO is an organism that has had its DNA altered or modified in some way through genetic engineering.

The distinction between comets and asteroids is in principle a clear one, encoded right in the words themselves. Both terms come from Greek roots--“comet” descends from a word meaning... --