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New research suggests that talking with strangers gives people a happiness boost. Do you believe it?

Could a nuclear accident like the 2011 meltdown that crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan happen here? David Lochbaum, a former nuclear engineer, director of the Nuclear Safety Program for the Union of Concerned...

Corals rely on the photosynthesis of algae for oxygen. To make sure algae get the light they need, coral tissue traps and redistributes sunlight.

Shoot a beam of light or particles at certain special materials and you will liberate electrons -- pairs of them -- a phenomenon known as "electron pair emission, " which can reveal fundamental properties of the solid an...

Brightly colored blocks were the toast of the box office last weekend, thanks to "LEGO: The Movie." But our fond memories of the plastic blocks are from the playroom, not the cinema. LEGOs are also a fun way to help kids...

Pax might mean "peace," but Winter Storm Pax is bringing anything but peacefulness to the Eastern U.S.

A global coalition has committed itself to stop the trade in illegal wildlife products, yet it has no strategy to cut demand for products like rhino horn     

Once again, the eastern United States has been pummeled by a winter storm that's dumped massive amounts of snow, Revelers at the Winter Olympics, meanwhile, went shirtless at Sochi's Black Sea beaches.

The media has started to name winter storms, such as Pax and Hercules, to the chagrin of many meteorologists.

In the luscious, green forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, researchers have discovered a new plant species that turned out to be a biodiversity hotspot.

Employees engaging in office romances can cause all sorts of problems, especially for business owners.

Striking up a conversation with a stranger on the bus might seem like torture, but it actually makes people happier, new research suggests. Even introverts get a boost from conversing with someone new.

Inspired by the way termites work together to build complex mounds of soil without needing blueprints, researchers created robots that can autonomously build structures and work together without needing supervision or pr...

A treacherous winter storm that is sweeping across the southeastern United States is leaving a trail of destruction, with downed trees and power lines leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power in parts of Geo...

The largest moon in the solar system has finally received its cartographic due, more than 400 years after its discovery.

Engineers have created small robots that can build without a centralized plan. Like termites building mounds hundreds of times their size, they use simple information around them to decide the next step in the constructi...

A strange ribbon of energy and particles at the edge of the solar system first spotted by a NASA spacecraft appears to serve as a sort of "roadmap in the sky" for the interstellar magnetic field, scientists say.

Happy day-before Valentine's Day! Do you have your heart-shaped box of chocolates, yet? Or perhaps you're like me and are waiting for the day after to snag the tasty treats for half the price. The saying goes: You get wh...

The massive storm system bringing miserable weather to the eastern United States can be seen blanketing the region in pictures from space. NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this image of the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday ...

A surprising number of people who married in recent years met on social media such as Facebook, and those people tend to be more satisfied than those who met in other ways.

In the first clip, crazy ants and fire ants fight over a grasshopper carcass. The crazy ants are able to clean themselves with a secretion that detoxifies the fire ants' potent bite. The second clips show this cleaning b...

All over the southern United States, miniature foes are engaging in fierce battle. Invasive "crazy ants" have been displacing fire ants, and the crazy ants' defensive strategy may be behind their bold takeover.