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A phenomenon first seen decades ago and revisited in a new experiment involving quarks could extend one of the most successful theories in physics.

In light of President Obama's plan to advance brain science, here are some recent cool findings about the brain.

Monarch numbers are rapidly falling, but what can be done to protect them?

An F-4 Phantom, Converted to a Drone QF-4 82 Aerial Targets Squadron, 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...

An independent panel of experts said Friday there are flaws in the science the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) used to make its case for ousting gray wolves from the Endangered Species list.

A team of researchers, led by scientists at Case Western Reserve University, has developed a multifunctional nanoparticle that enables magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to pinpoint blood vessel plaques caused by atheroscl...

Seeking a solution to decoherence -- the "noise" that prevents quantum processors from functioning properly -- scientists at USC have developed a strategy of linking quantum bits together into voting blocks, a strategy t...

The Amazon rainforest's surprising dry season growth spurts are fake, the result of misleading satellite data, a new study finds.

A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist and his colleagues have found a new application for the tools and mathematics typically used in physics to help solve problems in biology.

The US government is creating seven new "climate hubs" designed to help farmers handle the effects of global warming, such as droughts and invasive pests     

A probe orbiting Mercury has beamed more than 200,000 images to ground controllers on Earth, and it's still going strong.

Ancient civilizations have long written about the power and force that weather once brought upon them, and now these international monuments are showing visible signs of wear.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped its first photo of Earth from the surface of the Red Planet, an amazing image that also includes the moon. See the photos here.

Slopestyle is one of the newest games in the 2014 Winter Olympics. Snowboarders compete on a course with jumps, rails and other obstacles.

The late news anchor Walter Cronkite, the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope and a hypersonic aircraft mission are among the people and projects being honored by this year's National Space Club awards.

In the clear waters off the coast of Peru, researchers have found a stunning new red coral species that was not previously described by scientists.

This stunning space wallpaper shows the Toby Jug Nebula, which is located about 1200 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Carina (The Ship's Keel). More formally known as IC 2220, it is an example of a...

An ancient hominin male and several children were foraging along an estuary in Norfolk almost a million years ago     

"Dynamic Earth," a video created by staffers at NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio and their colleagues, took first prize in the 2013 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

Reading nutrition labels at the grocery store can be a daunting task -- here are tips for determining what's really healthy.

Inspired by a style from the film The Matrix Reloaded, mathematicians have found thousands of new ways to knot a tie. Not all will make it to the catwalk     

An ancient hominin male and several children were foraging along an estuary in Norfolk almost a million years ago