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When a tree that stands in the city's way is designated for the chop, many of us just stand by and watch it fall. Don' t be so resigned, says Stephanie Pain (full text available to subscribers)     

Fungal lung infections like those caused by Histoplasma capsulatum are difficult to treat because it's hard to get rid of the fungal cells without damaging human cells. A new way to mark fungal cells by making them glow ...

The president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios has spent a lifetime bringing richly imaginative stories to life on the silver screen, from "Toy Story" to "Monsters, Inc." Catmull spoke to a packed audience \abo...

Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines on Nov. 8, 2013, creating an enormous storms surge that devastated the region and likely killed thousands.

Infants who unexpectedly die in their sleep may have underlying abnormalities in their brain stem, regardless of whether they are placed in safe or unsafe sleep environments, a new study suggests.

Simple Answers xkcd Is technology making everything amazing and no one happy, as Louis C.K. contends? Or is technology making everything amazing and everyone happy? Or is technology just screwing everything up? There's s...

Car Force One has some of the most advanced tech on wheels in a ride fit for a president, but priced for the Average Joe.

The sun's polarity is getting closer to flipping. The star's northern hemisphere's polarity has already reversed, and the southern hemisphere should follow suit soon, scientists say.

Las Vegas is installing Intellistreets, a brand of street lighting that is capable of recording video and audio of pedestrians and motorists. What happens in Vegas, it seems, no longer stays in Vegas.

As the Philippines assesses the damage caused by typhoon Haiyan, scientists calculate that storms like this release carbon from forests, worsening climate change     

It's all about angle, guys. And while reducing splash-back in a urinal is feasible it could take a sharp shooter to do so in a conventional toilet, researchers say. Take-home: Sit.

An astronaut on the International Space Station has seen the deadly Typhoon Haiyan from orbit. See astronaut Karen Nyberg's amazing photo of the super typhoon.

From a distance, insects can appear smooth and sleek, but get close enough and hundreds of tiny bristles called setae come into focus. Suddenly what once seemed smooth now resembles a porcupine terror. (Clip of a fruit f...

Researchers simulated a man peeing into a urinal at different angles, finding to avoid pee splash-back men should decrease the angle of flow.

Devastation wrought on Tacloban was probably intensified by a landscape that funnelled a 5-metre-high storm surge over the Philippine city     

The U.S. military is assisting with recovery efforts and humanitarian relief in the Philippines in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan, a devastating storm that is estimated to have killed more than 10,000 people.

This space wallpaper shows a view of a three-dimensional visualization of gas in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 (The Sculptor Galaxy) as observed by the ALMA radio telescope in Chile.

About half of all medication prescribed in the United States is not taken as directed. Some have proposed stomach acid-activated microchips. CleverCap is a less sci-fi fix: a cap that fits on standard pill bottles. It in...

Exoskeletons are fusing man and machine to reduce workplace injuries and restore freedom to the disabled or infirm--but they have yet to escape the lab, and worse, only a few folks could realistically afford one even if ...

By making fungal cells glow, researchers speed drug testing.

A secretive new species of small wood-scorpion has been discovered in southwestern Turkey, researchers report.

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