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The best solar panels are efficient, durable and are made by companies that offer good customer support. LiveScience sister site TopTenREVIEWS researched the top solar panel offerings for 2014 for consumers looking to bu...

Turmeric is a spice with a long history of use in cooking and religious rituals, and evidence suggests it may hold health benefits as well.

Whether it's fashion, fuel, medical implants or green cleaners, fungus is set to be the smart material of the 21st century, says Richard Webb (full text available to subscribers)     

(Phys.org) --Popular television shows such as "Doctor Who" have brought the idea of time travel into the vernacular of popular culture. But problem of time travel is even more complicated than one might think. LSU's Mark...

People with colon cancer may have fewer types of bacteria in their guts than people without the condition, researchers reported today.

Approximately every 11 years, the magnetic polarity of the Sun reverses. 16 years of high resolution magnetic field line data are animated in magnetic lines. Neon green = positive, purple = negative. (looped 4X)

Snow-white predators are showing up in unusual numbers in the northeast and around the Great Lakes.

A vitamin a day keeps the doctor away? Not quite. More and more scientific research is showing that the health benefits of vitamins might be less spectacular than advertised. But Americans still keep swallowing the messa...

Men with a condition that causes a curvature of the penis now have a drug treatment option that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

How animals move in complex environments is a big question with relevance to several fields including robotics.

NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA announced in September that the Voyager 1 spacecraft became the first man-made object to leave the solar system, although the group noted that the readings were different than what scientists expect...

High chair injuries have increased by 22% in the United States, sending an average of 9,500 kids to the hospital every year.

Ocean acidification, which is caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide being absorbed into the sea, could have unexpected effects, like making fish more anxious.

Doctors can now replace heart valves without resorting to open-heart surgery.

Scientists now have an answer to a question you never knew you had: What happened to all the dinosaur dung?

An alien-looking cloud looms over the blue shards of ice in the otherworldly Antarctic landscape being mapped by NASA's Operation IceBridge     

An online simulation mimics the vision of five animals as a player steers them through Place Vendôme in Paris     

Don't let reason talk you into eating that second cookie!

Since trees absorb carbon dioxide and can be regrown, it may be tempting to assume they could be used as a carbon neutral energy source, but there are two big reasons that's not the case.

Dek In honor of the totally-not-evil logo for the National Reconnaissance Office's latest space mission. Array Posted to Twitter last night, this nice friendly octopus is the logo for the National Reconnaissance Office's...

All the latest on newscientist.com: magic of mushrooms, Martian meteor shower, global dementia boom, wireless power aid, hot nights and more     

Sophisticated recent experiments with ultrashort laser pulses support the idea that intuition-defying quantum interactions between molecules help plants, algae, and some bacteria efficiently gather light to fuel their gr...