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New research suggests plants are riding a calcium wave just to survive in the increasingly salty, or saline, soils that have become a problem the world over.

NASA may have decommissioned the Space Shuttle, but it’s not the end of space exploration for the iconic agency which wants to send humans back to the Moon and on to Mars within the next few decades. And they’ll need...

Over the past two decades or so, there has been increasing interest and development in measuring slow dynamics in disordered systems at the nanoscale, brought about in part from a demand for advancements in the food and ...

A megamouth shark, one of the rarest sharks in the world, was recently caught off the coast of Japan. The elusive and bizarre deep-water species known as megachasma pelagios was discovered less than 40 years ago and has ...

Astronauts at NASA went underwater to test tools that would be used in a future mission to an asteroid planned for the 2020s. Stan Love and Steve Bowen, two experienced NASA astronauts who between them had spent more tha...

The animal world contains an amazing diversity of genitalia that has been largely unappreciated, even among scientists. Live Science goes to the zoo with author Menno Schilthuizen to talk about the sex lives of ducks, ca...

A look at a long history of public records highlights just how much motherhood has changed in the United States. In 1860, only 7.5 percent of moms were employed outside the home, compared with nearly 70 percent today.

Chimpanzees not only possess many of the same personality traits as humans -- from agreeableness to extroversion -- these traits are structured almost identically in both humans and chimps.

The beauty of the Milky Way, a monster solar flare and a double rainbow -- What else do you need? Check out the rest of these amazing science images to find out!

Capturing Saturn as it slips gently behind the moon.

The old German saying Stadt Luft Macht Frei ("urban air makes you free") is the defining injunction of modernity. Modern western cities were launched as the vessels of liberation from a human era darkened by power and en...

The first atomic bombs were detonated during World War II.

The ability to create conducting polymer films in a variety of shapes, thicknesses and surface properties rapidly and inexpensively will make growing and testing cells easier and more flexible, according to a team of Pen...