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Farms that use dramatically less water and fertilizer can operate in the desert using a high tech film developed by a company based in Dubai.

New insights into tree biology may be the start of a revolution in the maple syrup industry. At first, University of Vermont researchers Tim Perkins and Abby van den Berg were just trying to learn more about how sap flow...

Ancient Romans practiced infanticide, but unlike many societies, they did not seem to preferentially kill daughters over sons. A new ancient DNA analysis of infant remains finds that the sex ratio of those killed was rou...

MQ-1 Predator Drone, Weaponized and Awaiting Command Over Afghanistan USAF Here's a round-up of the week's top drone news, designed to capture the military, commercial, non-profit, and recreational applications of unmann...

-- Consortium to develop new sensors for particle research -- Particle physicists bemoan a perfect theory -- CERN Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen Atoms for Hyperfine Study -- Neutrino telescopes launch new...

As Brazil manages its rivers, they are having a global impact.

The volcanic plume that gave birth to the Galapagos Islands is not located where scientists thought, a new study finds. Three-dimensional seismic images suggest the plume lies southeast of the chain's Fernandina Island, ...

Pumping gas is a real pain. It involves actually getting out of your car, moving the muscles in your legs and arms and surrounding yourself with outside air. But one company plans to introduce robotic gas pumps in St. Lo...

A massive unmanned spy plane being developed by Boeing completed its sixth test flight in mid-December, setting a new prototype endurance record by flying for more than five hours, company officials said.

As climate change affects our planet's polar regions, art exploring the Arctic and Antarctica abounds. How does the latest exhibition, Out of Ice, compare?     

The world's oldest identified cancer developed 11,000 years ago in a single Alaskan malamute or husky-type canine, a new study suggests. The cancer, called canine transmissible venereal tumor, or CTVT, continues living i...

This week in science, we saw how bats follow ripples in water back to tasty frogs, heard about the new atomic clock that keeps down to one-430 trillionth of a second, and found out why a marine biologist insists on tossi...

The Orion service module will keep astronauts alive on their way to the moon, an asteroid or even Mars – this prototype is getting ready for a test flight     

Unlike graphene, phosphorene is a natural semiconductor and so may be better at turbocharging the next generation of computers     

A twist on the Milky Way's natural beauty.

The use of portable, wireless cameras and monitoring equipment for recording and transmitting footage of wildlife is perhaps familiar to anyone who watches nature programs on TV. However, common to all such equipment is ...

How would electrons behave if confined to a wire so slender they could pass through it only in single-file?

A single mutation may account for lethal animal's toxin.

Biochemical reactions sometimes have to handle dangerous things in a safe way. New work from researchers at UC Davis and Stanford University shows how cyanide and carbon monoxide are safely bound to an iron atom to const...

Flexible, layered materials textured with nanoscale wrinkles could provide a new way of controlling the wavelengths and distribution of waves, whether of sound or light. The new method, developed by researchers at MIT, c...

Even with promising results in humans paired with dramatic results in earlier tests in primates, a gene therapy treating Parkinson's disease, first developed in 1997, is heading back to the drawing board. Here's why.

In work that has major implications for improving the performance of building insulation, scientists at the University of Namur in Belgium and the University of Hassan I in Morocco have calculated that hairs that reflect...