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While it's difficult to fully disconnect from work as we head home for the day, a paper published today provides some insight into how our personal thinking styles and values can affect how we manage the stress of work.

The number of really big earthquakes in the 19th century is suspiciously lower than the number measured in the past century, raising the possibility that seismologists may be underestimating big earthquake risk based on ...

A new digital elevation model shows Kilimanjaro's glaciers are shrinking. If the pace continues, Credner Glacier could disappear by 2030, said researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Antarctica's crumbling Larsen B Ice Shelf is poised to finally finish its collapse.

An impenetrable fog rolled into London Wednesday morning (Dec. 10), which caused some travel woes, but also produced rare views of the city's skyline from above, with only the tallest buildings poking above the mist.

Dust Buster Brian Klutch The Problem Moon dust is dangerous. Each mote is like a tiny shard of glass--there's no wind or rain to soften the edges of lunar soil. During the Apollo missions, it jammed equipment and got stu...

A type of greenhouse gas that is thought to have a potent impact on global warming was detected in trace amounts in the atmosphere for the first time, according to a new study.

The governing council of the world's top particle physics lab has unanimously voted to accept Israel as a full member.

Researchers captured this lightning strike unfold in Guangzhou, China using an ultra-high-speed video camera that caught 10,000 frames per second.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have combined ultrafast time-resolved experimental measurements with theory to reveal how an explosive responds to a high-impact shock.

The Year In Science Jesse Lenz It was a great year in reading, but no one could've caught all of the amazing science and technology stories. So we've rounded up a few--from Popular Science, as well as plenty of other pla...

American alligators have been spotted using sticks to lure nesting egrets, the first documented example of a reptile using a tool     

Networks of nanometer-scale machines offer exciting potential applications in medicine, industry, environmental protection and defense, but until now there's been one very small problem: the limited capability of nanosca...

For a travelling virus, a large metropolitan area on a different continent could be closer than the nearby town. Using measures of connectivity between airports, rather than actual distances, researchers predict where an...

The finding that comb jellies might have been the earliest animal on the tree of life challenges our understanding of the early evolution on Earth     

As flu activity starts to rise in parts of the country, about 40 percent of Americans have already received a flu shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Climate change not only takes toll on Arctic sea ice, but the rise in the planet's temperature could also harm large reef fish, according to a recent study. Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef St...

The Siberian Traps erupted just before the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, scientists have confirmed. The eruptions caused acid rain and destroyed much of the planet's ozone layer.

Strategies to manipulate light and sound go back to the first spherical glass bead and the pounding of the first hollow log. But their full potential is only just becoming apparent, according to a review by materials sci...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have combined ultrafast time-resolved experimental measurements with theory to reveal how an explosive responds to a high-impact shock.

To help quell antibiotic resistance, the US Food and Drug Administration has asked for the drugs to be labelled as not for use as growth promoters     

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