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(Frontiers) Frontiers launches two new open-access journals: Frontiers in Earth Science and Frontiers in Environmental Science.

A bay cat, a rare animal found on the tropical island of Borneo, has been spotted by camera traps in a logged section of the rainforest, where it wasn't expected to be seen.

It's all over the news: A team of scientists at UC Berkeley and University of Hawaii used Kepler data to gain one step closer to determining the abundance of potentially habitable extra-solar planets within the Milky Way...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that the Omega Laser Facility, a national user facility for NNSA that is located at and operated by the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser E...

Men with signs of heart problems who use testosterone therapy may have an increased risk of heart attack or stroke, a new study finds. The findings call for more cautious prescribing of testosterone, doctors say.

Antarctica could hold 1.5-million-year-old ice that could be drilled to reveal the Earth's ancient climate history. An ice core of this age would be twice as old as the next oldest sample.

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A new hypersonic spy plane, capable of flying up to six times faster than the speed of sound, is being developed by aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp., according to company officials.

A massive fireball roared through a Montreal neighborhood, sparking worldwide interest after a dramatic amateur video of the event went viral. But what exactly was it? An arc flash, caused by an arcing fault.

Critics of military drones say firing weapons from behind a computer screen, while safely sitting thousands of miles away, could desensitize pilots to the act of killing. What separates this, they argue, from a battlefie...

Underground Henry_Spencer via Flickr Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop? A European Union-funded research project spearheaded by the Swedish Defense Res...

A draft of the next IPCC report on the societal impacts of climate change forecasts reduced crop yields and the creation of a "new poor"     

In sickle cell disease, hemoglobin -- the oxygen-carrying component of blood -- forms fibers that stiffen red blood cells and cause life-threatening symptoms. Using light-scattering techniques to study the detailed therm...

Herbal supplements sometimes contain unlisted substitutes instead of the main plant – with potentially dangerous consequences     

The fossil history of the platypus shows the modern platypus is just the tip of the iceberg of a diverse radiation.

All the latest on newscientist.com: memory and the ageing brain, how the Forbidden City was built, UK fracking and health, India's Mars mission and more     

A global warming event about 50 million years ago led tiny ancestral horses to decrease in size by about 20 percent, new research suggests. This was the second instance in which warming caused decreases in mammal body si...

Every fall, thousands of polar bears gather on the southwest banks of Hudson Bay, in Canada, to wait for sea ice to form so they can hunt. Now, thanks to the philanthropic media organization Explore.org, anyone with an I...

A DIY-Google Street View system enables researchers to track environmental change at Denali National Park. The scientist who designed the system has already used the photos to investigate the site of a major landslide.

Whatever the other problems with drilling for shale gas in the UK, the risk to public health is low, according to a government report     

Dark-field microscopy was used to capture this amazing image of a marine worm, which took third place at Nikon's 2013 Small World Photomicrography competition.

Denali gets the do-it-yourself Google Street View treatment in order to monitor environmental changes in the park.