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Mention biocontrol and people think of the cane toad catastrophe. But a sap-sucking bug could be the only way to win the war against the world's worst weed (full text available to subscribers)

Thanks, great great great great great great great great great great great great grandad RESEARCHERS have known for a while that many people alive today carry genes from human species other than Homo sapiens--the result o...

Ancient Japanese gold leaf artists were truly masters of their craft. An analysis of six ancient Namban paper screens show that these artifacts are gilded with gold leaf that was hand-beaten to the nanometer scale. Study...

Drones have been banned from all national parks in the United States, according to new regulations established by U.S. government officials.

Have you ever been at a restaurant table where everyone ordered a salad? The finding of a new study may explain why this happens.

SLAC scientist Michael Kelsey sees connections between the communities of physicists and do-it-yourselfers. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory physicist Michael Kelsey's knack for tinkering has led him to pursue do-it-...

The Declaration of Independence is now well preserved at the National Archives, but the document survived years of wear and tear.

All they had to do was sit and entertain themselves with their thoughts from 6-15 minutes, but when given the option of self-shocking during that time, 67% of the Males and 25% of females hit the zapper button.

Probiotics are often touted as a way to improve health, but what exactly do these "good" bacteria do for us? Here are some common myths about probiotics.

For many people, being forced to spend a few minutes alone with their thoughts is an unpleasant experience, new research suggests.

Four fracking wastewater wells near Oklahoma City have caused hundreds of earthquakes since 2008, a new study finds.

It is an unlikely spot for life, but a chilly exoplanet orbiting one star in a binary system suggests possible locations for more habitable worlds

Touted since 2007 as a top contender for hosting life, the rocky world Gliese 581 d may be no more than sunspots, according to a re-analysis of its signal

Hurricane Arthur is expected to pack winds of 85 mph when it hits the Outer Banks area of North Carolina on the Fourth of July, according to the latest forecast models released by the National Hurricane Center.

When two scientific papers, published in the journal Nature in January, described an inexpensive, uncontroversial and quick method of creating stem cells, it was hailed as a path-breaking discovery.

People who have more negative interactions with their spouses may be at increased risk of heart disease, a new study suggests.

New training courses being developed at the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science aim to create bridges between these industry and the physics of accelerators, lasers and plasma. With a pilot course delivered this...

The NOAA GOES 13 satellite captured the storm from July 2-3, 2014. It has been declared a category-1 storm and its gaining strength. (video looped)

Arthur is now the first hurricane of the 2014 season. It is expected to hit North Carolina as a Category 2.

On July 2nd, 2014, the International Space Station flew 260 miles above the storm, which is now a category 1 hurricane. At the time of the fly-over, it was about 100 miles east-northeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Indigenous people with no prior contact to the outside world have just emerged from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and made contact with a group of settled Indians, after being spotted migrating to evade illegal loggers...