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John DiFazio has been to war, fought fires and beat cancer - but his battle with hepatitis C has been the longest.

Researchers have embarked on an effort to revitalize the Colorado River delta.

Bertrand Piccard, who with André Borschberg, founded the effort to build Solar Impulse 2, the solar powered airplane with which they will try to fly around the world, addresses the doubters, the skeptics and the haters.

Why do humans seek out alcohol even though it can lead to destructive behavior? One biologist looked to evolution for an answer, and came up with The Drunken Monkey Hypothesis.

When the sun heats water in the oceans, rivers, lakes and other sources, some of it evaporates, or transforms from liquid water to water vapor. This is the first step in cloud formation.

Synthetic cannabis, or 'spice,' seems to be the drug of choice among substance-using American soldiers.

First Flight Of The Black Knight Advanced Tactics Yesterday Advanced Tactics announced the successful first flight of their Black Knight Transformer, a hybrid truck helicopter designed for military missions. In December,...

Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has determined that homeopathy is utterly, totally, glaringly useless. It's nice when governmental organizations get things right.You could read the NHMRC ...

If you've ever had a tooth pulled, then you might be familiar with a severely painful -- and aptly named -- condition known as dry socket (alveolar osteitis).

100 Years of Life, As Extrapolated By Software You might notice the algorithms were unable to remove the milk mustache from its original reference photo. U of Washington Look at a kid under the age of five, and it's hard...

Astrophotographer Steve Zigler created this image of Zodiacal light in Death Valley, California. See how he did it here.

Bushmeat is still on sale in Ghana despite worries that fruit bats and other bushmeat may be behind the spread of an Ebola outbreak in nearby Liberia and Guinea which has claimed around a hundred lives.

Rising temperatures are affecting the size of salamanders in the Appalachian Mountains.

The FTC estimates that 9 million Americans have their identity stolen every year in credit-card skimming or similar kinds of scams. The ease with which skimmers operate, however, raises several questions about the securi...

Military uses drones as mobile hotspots; sponge injection helps heal gunshot wounds; calorie-counting device questioned; robotic surgeon designed to operate in space.

Rangers in the national park want to evict herds of beefalo, a hybrid of American buffalo and domestic cattle, which are wreaking havoc on the ecosystem

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 shook Nicaragua Thursday (April 10), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

A 3D display made from a curtain of fog could be the computer screen of the future, changing the way people interact and collaborate with each other.

All the latest on newscientist.com: how we'll swallow synthetic biology, bioengineered vaginas, digitising cave art, Heartbleed, pixelbots and more

The payment this week for spotting a major bug that damages web security is meant to set a trend, rewarding those who report bugs rather than exploit them

This simulation of the devastating landslide in Oso, Washington, on 22 March shows just how fast the liquefied rock, sand and clay rushed across the ground

A San Francisco startup called Open Garden has a use for mesh networking that has drummed up excitement: a chat app that works even when there's no phone or internet service available.