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California's rainfall year ended today, and though the final totals aren't yet official, the parched state will likely end up with one of its lowest rainfall years since the 1920s.

Where the Sahara Desert meets the sea, winds sculpt the arid landscape in a series of parallel lines. Human activity in the form of mining is visible in a new astronaut photograph of the west coast of Africa.

Diagram Of A Drone System This diagram shows the drone, the communications relay, the remote pilot, and the air traffic controller. Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Transportation According to plan, th...

Woman's yearly health visit often involves a pelvic exam, but new recommendations say many women do not need to have this procedure routinely.

Today's Supreme Court decision undermines science and may have the effect of actually leading to more abortions, experts say.

Originally published: Jun 26 2014 - 1:30pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Ker Than, Contributor(Inside Science) -- Terrestrial animals may owe a special debt to the sun and the moon. It may have been their combined pull...

A Binghamton University physicist and his colleagues say they have unlocked one key mystery surrounding high-temperature superconductivity. Their research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy o...

A 3D-printed "bio-bot" powered by skeletal muscle tissue could give robots more precise control over its movements.

Though you might think of it as just another nut in the trail mix, the cashew is a decidedly strange snack.

The amount of plastic littering the surface of the oceans is much smaller than expected, raising the question of where all the plastic is going.

Native Americans in the Southwest underwent a baby boom from A.D. 500 till about A.D. 1300, largely because populations in the region shifted to a maize-based agricultural diet.

Bass notes lay down beats in music worldwide, and new research may reveal why that is -- the ear responds better to rhythms set by deeper sounds, scientists say.

If we could make milk the same way we make beer, the environmental benefits would be huge, says bioengineer Ryan Pandya (full text available to subscribers)

Extinct volcanoes on the ocean floor get squashed by tectonic plates and create tsunami earthquakes.

The Athena space telescope will launch in 2028 to gather hot, energetic light from monster black holes and interstellar gas storms

When beams with trillions of particles go zipping around at near light speed, there's bound to be some chaos. Limiting that chaos in particle colliders is crucial for the groundbreaking results such experiments are desig...

Adventures in the Anthropocene: A journey to the heart of the planet we made by Gaia Vince is a story of optimism about how 10 billion people can live together

Never mind the huge cost, ecological consequences and engineering difficulties involved in a newly proposed scheme to make tornado-blocking walls, weather experts say the idea is too crazy to work.

An international team of scientists has discovered a nearby planet that could be a potential candidate to host a habitable world similar to the one found on Earth. The planet, dubbed Gliese 832c, was found orbiting a red...

A strange Swedish meteorite is unlike any rock seen before and is seemingly the first piece of a "bullet" that sparked an explosion of life on early Earth

Liver transplants could get a boost from a new technique that could allow the organs to be stored for longer before they are transplanted into patients.

Rage has erupted over a Facebook experiment aimed at manipulating users' emotions. There are reasons not to get angry, says psychology researcher Tal Yarkoni