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Following an X-class solar flare on March 31, the sun emitted an M-class solar flare on April 2. There was a coronal mass ejection associated with the solar flare that hit Earth but didn't cause a geomagnetic storm on Ea...

Biologists who want to know what types of fish live in the Tennessee Valley Authority lakes have an uncanny technique for uncovering what lurks beneath the surface. The method involves researchers putting a generator in ...

An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 5.0 shook southern France today (April 7), according to France's National Seismic Monitoring Network.

The pancreas helps regulate blood sugar levels. It is also an important aid in digestion.

A lack of attention to detail can be a good thing.

Arctic sea ice hit its annual peak on March 21. It was the fifth-lowest maximum extent since 1979.

Based on a fundamental chemical discovery by scientists at Oregon State University, it appears that trees may soon play a major role in making high-tech energy storage devices.

Carbon nanotubes are reinforcing bars that make two-dimensional graphene much easier to handle in a new hybrid material grown by researchers at Rice University.

New research from North Carolina State University and UNC-Chapel Hill reveals that energy is transferred more efficiently inside of complex, three-dimensional organic solar cells when the donor molecules align face-on, r...

The obesity rate in children hasn't declined in recent years, and severe obesity may even be on the rise, a new study has found.

Photographer Rachel Sussman traveled the planet for a decade in search of organisms that have witnessed thousands of years of history. Her stunning images are featured in a new book, "The Oldest Living Things in the Worl...

Photographer Rachel Sussman traveled the planet in search of organisms that have been living for 2,000 years or more, compiling images for her book, "The Oldest Living Things in the World."

Despite myths about original Strads and Guarneri violins, expert soloists pick new instruments more often in blind tests. The study suggests that perception may cloud listeners' senses in the debate between old and new.

Could you tell a new violin from a vintage Stradivarius? Top-notch soloists couldn't in a blind test, and they even preferred new instruments

The Frenchman credited with finding the genetic cause of Down's is in line for sainthood. Now his colleague says it was her who made the crucial breakthrough (full text available to subscribers)

An extinct marine predator entombed in a seafloor "Pompeii" for 520 million years had a sophisticated heart and blood vessel system similar to those of its distant modern relatives, arthropods such as spiders, lobsters a...

Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have used 140,000 distant quasars to measure the expansion rate of the Universe when it was only one-quarter of its present age. This is the best measurement yet of the expan...

Like zombies returning from the grave, certain cancer cells might be able to overcome death even after being destroyed by chemotherapy, according to new research. Normal cells routinely undergo a process called autophagy...

Responsive stress hormones are linked to a lower rate of automobile crashes or near crashes for teenage drivers, new research finds. The stress response may be a crucial part of learning to cope with challenges on the ro...

From studying the bible to visualising computer storage, Manuel Lima's sumptuous The Book of Trees explores the tree diagram's appeal for showing information

The Chengjiang fossil deposit in China has yielded amazing fossils of arthropod organ systems. These animals lived 520 million years ago, during the Cambrian period.

NASA has suspended engagements with Russia, apart from on the International Space Station. We look at what the move means for space activities