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Nearly 90 years after Werner Heisenberg pioneered his uncertainty principle, a group of researchers from three countries has provided substantial new insight into this fundamental tenet of quantum physics with the first ...

Phytoplankton and bacterial byproducts dye the ocean green and yellow in a new satellite image of the Namibian coast. The yellow swirls seen in the water can be deadly to fish.

After Oklahoma death-row inmate Clayton Lockett received a lethal injection, he lived for 43 minutes, convulsing and writhing on the gurney before finally dying of a heart attack, according to news reports.

When forecasting the much-feared "Big One" -- the next devastatingly large earthquake -- scientists should look to the oldest parts of a dangerous fault, researchers said here today (April 30) at the annual meeting of th...

Predator control from the U.S. Wildlife Services itself must be controlled.

Ocean acidification -- a phenomenon in which the world's oceans become more acidic as they absorb higher levels of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere -- is causing the shells of tiny marine snails to dissolve, according ...

A convergent series is a mathematical series in which the sequence of partial sums converges to 1. A divergent series is just the opposite -- the sums do not meet a finite limit.

Obese people who don't have certain signs of heart disease now may still be at higher risk for future disease than normal-weight people, according to a new study.

Kosher food is not a style of cooking or a cultural menu (like Chinese or Italian food). Instead, "kosher" refers to foods that adhere to the dietary laws of Judaism, also called kashrut, as described in the Torah.

The human mind is primed to believe in god, so why are so many people abandoning religion - and should we be worried about living in an atheist world? (full text available to subscribers)

There are signs that all living things sit on the knife-edge of criticality - something that could help them adapt to complex and unpredictable events (full text available to subscribers)

People with injuries that destroyed part of a muscle could be helped with an experimental treatment that uses a pig bladder as a muscle scaffold, researchers say.

From a turn-of-the-century eclipse to a 100-year-old glimpse of the Seminole people of Florida, a new digital collection reveals the history of a nation

New findings could help explain the motion of the giant tectonic plates that surf over Earth's mantle, the movements of which explain how the continents have drifted over time as well as disasters such as earthquakes and...

SpaceX recently launched the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of the Commercial Resupply (CRS-3) mission. Prior to the launch, the Falcon 9 rocket was equipped with a set of landing legs with ...

The recent sanctions against Russia have already put a strain on relations between the country and the United States but have yet to affect the International Space Station or ongoing agreements between NASA and Roscosmos...

Open wide, please. Keeping a safe distance, this man is brushing the teeth of a hippopotamus at a wildlife reserve in China

There's no evidence that our extinct cousins were less intelligent than modern humans, finds a review of archaeological evidence

The first global review of antibiotic resistance is devastating – and we may run out of antibiotics before we can measure the full scope of the problem

A brown dwarf only about three to 10 times Jupiter's mass couldn't get fusion going and now sits freezing in space, in the nearby galactic neighborhood. Clara Moskowitz reports   --

When it comes to choosing a mate in the beetle world, females prefer males that are better lovers than fighters, a study finds.

Gruesome reports from the execution of Clayton Lockett add further evidence that the death penalty in the US risks violating the country's constitution