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A submarine on Titan, a greenhouse on the Red Planet, and a space cowboy hitching a ride to Pluto on a comet top NASA's wild wish list

Anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing is helping to save a unique, centuries-old cooperative farming system in Indonesia. Find out what makes him tick.

There seems to be a mismatch between the cancer screening tests that people actually undergo and what experts recommend, doctors say.

The cost of supporting a person with autism over a lifetime can be as high as $2.4 million, a new study estimates.

Volcanoes under the ice in Antarctica appear to contribute to the melting of glaciers, potentially lubricating the overlying ice and contributing to the glacier's speed of flow.

The first farmers entered Europe from the Middle East by sailing between the idyllic islands of the Aegean Sea 9000 years ago

Our attempts to deodorise urban streets have gone too far, says Victoria Henshaw. There are powerful reasons to reacquaint our noses with city scents (full text available to subscribers)

Snow algae and light-shunning seaweed are some of the weird life forms that may rule on habitable exoplanets, according to criteria from a NASA astrobiologist

The latest form of genetic engineering can give human cells a rare mutation that keeps them HIV-free

To study debris dynamics from volcanic blasts, scientists tracked ping pong and tennis balls sent flying during controlled explosions. The sporting goods make surprisingly good proxies for silicate lava bombs (fiery boul...

Dr. Alexander Imich, who at age 111 recently earned the record for world's oldest man, died Sunday (June8), Guinness World Records reported.

Families of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise $5 million as a reward for information about the missing aircraft.

Two new books explore how the internet is changing us and our world - but it's too soon to tell which of the changes really matter

To gain a better understanding of unique maar volcanic eruptions, a group of researchers in New York is blowing up rock piles, for science.

Matthew Zefferman applies his enthusiasm for solving puzzles to investigating how human culture influences modern society.

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have designed a nanoparticle that has a couple of unique -- and important -- properties. Spherical in shape and silver in composition, it is encased in a shell coated with a peptide that en...

US pop culture now celebrates science - but that doesn't stop science deniers dismissing inconvenient truths. Showbiz can help, says journalist Chris Mooney

Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Launch The Kill Vehicle sits in the pod on top and doesn't emerge until the missile is in space. Raytheon Congress wants the machines it's been buying to shoot down missiles to, you know, shoo...

Ape-like ancestors of modern-day people engaged in violent fights over disagreements as well as over women and resources, which contributed to the evolution of the human face, according to a new study.

Those unemployed for six months or longer are almost three times more likely to suffer from depression, according to a survey of over 350,000 Americans conducted by Gallup in 2013.

Florida biologists hoping to spare an underwater field of coral from dredging were denied the opportunity to do so on Friday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the dredging work in Government Cut -- o...

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