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When we boil a kettle, we observe what scientists call a phase transition: the water changes from being a liquid to a gas as water becomes less dense. One litre of water boils to give about 1,000 litres of steam at atmos...

Can enormous heat deep in the earth be harnessed to provide energy for us on the surface?

From the humble potato to gourmet lobster, convincing people to eat unusual foods requires style as well as substance

Bursts of activity, even when brief, may be blood-sugar solution.

A structural study of spider fangs found that their curved, hollow design gives them the necessary strength for piercing and injecting their prey --

All carbon dioxide monitoring stations in the northern hemisphere averaged above 400 ppm for April.

During this week's House Science and Technology Committee hearing U.S. Rep. Chris Collins, a New York Republican, put the question of UFOs to a special panel of SETI scientists.

Newly realized Zebra migration breaks mammal record, spanning five nations.

An aquamarine phytoplankton bloom adds a flourish to a beautiful satellite image of the Gulf of Alaska in springtime, captured May 2, 2014, by NASA's Aqua satellite.

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that some compounds called polyoxoniobates can degrade and decontaminate nerve agents such as the deadly sarin gas, and have other characteristics that may make them...

Scientists from the University of Southampton, in collaboration with the Universities of Sheffield and Crete, have developed a new hybrid energy transfer system, which mimics the processes responsible for photosynthesis....

It took every inch of the Large Hadron Collider's 17-mile length to accelerate particles to energies high enough to discover the Higgs boson. Now, imagine an accelerator that could do the same thing in, say, the length o...

Researchers at ITbM, Nagoya University developed a new nickel catalyst with a "Kabuto-like" structure that was found to catalyze the cross-coupling reaction between carbonyl compounds and readily available phenol derivat...

Tiny tunnels found in pillowy lava rock in South Africa were formed by normal rock-formation processes, not by ancient microbes at the dawn of life, new evidence suggests.

World Wildlife Foundation has collared 8 zebras to track their movements across Africa, information critical to conservation. These animals were part of the largest land migration ever recorded on the continent (~1200 mi...

Many blame the internet for loosening the ties that bind us - but it's also weaving a new kind of social web (full text available to subscribers)

Leading scientists, artists and thinkers from around the world will convene here this week for the World Science Festival, a five-day event that celebrates "the beauty and complexity of science."

Summer vacation is just around the corner. If you're planning a trip to the nation's capital, there is a new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on the Mall worth checking out. National Air and Spa...

The deep-sea search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which vanished in March, could get a boost from a new, more detailed map of the seafloor west of Australia.

Antibiotics have ended untold human misery by curing bacterial infections, yet we are losing these wonder drugs, Martin Blaser explains why in Missing Microbes

There is far more carbon stored in the Earth's soil than previously thought, a new study has shown, and scientists fear disturbing it could unleash vast amounts of it into the atmosphere.

The Expedition 40 trio currently aboard the International Space Station is getting ready to welcome three new crew members. On Wednesday, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, cosmonaut Maxim Suarev and European Space Agency (ES...