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This beautiful wallpaper is an archive image of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska.

Our awareness of food waste is increasing all the time, yet we continue to throw away vast amounts of produce even when we don't need to.

Patients can have a hard time finding out exactly what their medical procedures will cost them, and a new study finds that hospitals often cannot provide price information for even simple procedures.

An astronaut's view of erupting Klyuchevskoy volcano, snapped Nov. 16, reveals how the tall peak towers above the Kamchatka Peninsula.

A mouse study finds that blocking two muscle receptors can stop sperm from ejaculating, a potentially reversible form of birth control for men who want their own pill.

After a Metro-North railroad train jumped off the tracks near where the Harlem River meets the Hudson River in the Bronx, New York City, on Sunday morning, the two most obvious questions are: How did it happen, and what ...

Controlling the population of vampire bats, using poison or even explosives, has been a decades-old way of trying to curb the spread of rabies in Latin America, but new research suggests culling bat colonies does little ...

Talk about taking a dim view of things. Researchers have obtained ultrasharp images of weakly illuminated objects using a bare minimum of photons: mathematically stitching together information from... --

For children with autism, a dose of oxytocin -- the so-called "love hormone" -- seems to fine-tune the activity in brain areas linked to social interactions, according to a new study.

Humble aluminum's plasmonic properties may make it far more valuable than gold and silver for certain applications, according to new research by Rice University scientists.

A chemical system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago can efficiently perform the first step in the process of creating syngas, gasoline and other energy-rich products out of carbon dioxide....

Pythons can digest prey as big as they are. Now, a new, complete Burmese python gene sequence reveals how thousands of genes work together to enable this extreme eating ability.

Men aren't from Mars and women aren't from Venus, but their brains really are wired differently, a new study suggests. Male brains may be optimized for motor skills, and female brains may be optimized for combining analy...

Scientists have found a way to study sound waves from the early universe to learn more about its history and contents.  Baryonic acoustic oscillations are sound waves from the early universe. Scientists have found a way...

An incredibly detailed look at Earth's twitches and shudders after a magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Chile found new triggers for aftershocks, the smaller temblors that follow an earthquake.

For the first time, human stem cells have been converted into functioning lung cells, paving the way for modeling lung disease, screening drugs and, ultimately, creating tissue for lung transplants.

A nanorobot is a popular term for molecules with a unique property that enables them to be programmed to carry out a specific task. In collaboration with colleagues in Italy and the USA, researchers at Aarhus University ...

Data from around the United States from the last 100 years has been compiled and analyzed to uncover important health trends.

-- Higgs boson's decay confirms physics model works -- CERN scientists to look for antigravity -- Yes, but what are neutrinos for? -- Use of ancient lead in modern physics experiments ignites debate -- Lecture on particl...

First computer simulation of the brain to compete with humans in intelligence tests reveals that cell death isn't enough to explain ageing's mental decline     

Richard Martel and his research team at the Department of Chemistry of the Université de Montréal have discovered a method to improve detection of the infinitely small. Their discovery is presented in the November 24 o...

Richard Martel and his research team at the Department of Chemistry of the Université de Montréal have discovered a method to improve detection of the infinitely small. Their discovery is presented in the November 24 o...