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(Springer) Physics can provide insights into societal trends. Problems involving interactions between people linked in real-life networks can be better understood by using physical models. Gomberoff set out to resolve on...

A landslide that occurred last weekend in Alaska may be the largest one to occur since 2010, scientists say.

100 metric tons of highly contaminated water leaked out of a tank at Japan's Fukushima plant, said its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co on Thursday.

The fitness tracker maker Fitbit is recalling its Force wristband after user complaints about skin irritation.

Winter Olympians talk about the changes they've seen in snow cover during their careers -- and urge climate action to prevent further warming.

An outbreak of severe weather battered parts of the midwestern and southern United States yesterday (Feb. 20), with damaging winds, strong storms and even several tornadoes reported in Illinois and Georgia.

This week in science, we looked for a lost asteroid, tried to see behind the smile of the Mona Lisa, and examined some of the evidence that the "meth epidemic" might be overblown

If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around, it might not make a sound - but a new mapping tool from the World Resources Institute aims to put all the eyes of the world on forests everywhere, with near-real time mo...

Lemurs have captured the public imagination in movies such as "Madagascar," but these adorable primates are on the brink of extinction, conservationists say.

Metal, despite being one of the most ubiquitous building materials, isn't something we see in 3-D printing too often. (Seriously: we've got pizza before small-scale, consumer steel printing.) But software company Autodes...

Warnings about painful, long-lasting erections are a hallmark of commercials for men's medications, but the condition can happen in women too, in their clitoris.

A thief has removed the track of a three-toed dinosaur from public lands near Moab, Utah, and Bureau of Land Management officials are looking for help to get the priceless artifact back.

A deep freeze has settled in over the Great Lakes this winter and a new image released by NASA shows the astonishing extent of the ice cover as seen from space.

A device powered by the sun's rays could provide early diagnoses for a range of deadly diseases in remote regions     

All the latest on newscientist.com: how we're hacking body electricity, older dads' mutant sperm, Higgs thunder, GPU-brained robots, flood trauma and more     

With a deadly embrace, 'spidery' pulsars devour their partners. One such pulsar is the first rapidly spinning black widow to be discovered using only gamma rays. Black widow spiders and their Australian cousins, known as...

This tough little creature has helped Peru's Manú National Park claim the title of having the world's most diverse collection of reptiles and amphibians     

Nazis clearly planned to develop insect bioweapons at the Dachau concentration camp, even though they never came close, says a researcher who analyzed historical records, including descriptions of creepy-crawly experimen...

IBM recently announced that it will invest in a research program in Africa to improve water and sanitation, agriculture, healthcare and education on the continent using its artificial intelligence platform, Watson.

Laser signals from deep space are hard to read – but a super-cool nanoscale light detector might make it easier     

The number of deaths in Northern California from so-called sneaker waves, large waves that suddenly swamp a beach and often take people unawares, prompted one meteorologists to start forecasting the conditions that would...

New research finds that ants' strength lies in their neck joints. Image Credit: manbeastextraordinaire via flickr | ://bit.ly/1oW8lkH While the world watches Olympians skate, jump and fly through the air in Sochi, resear...