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Following a series of potentially fatal accidents in the recent weeks involving anthrax and avian flu viruses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the temporary closure of the two labs involved...

Salvage crews plan to begin the complex work of refloating the wreck of the passenger ship Costa Concordia on Monday. The vessel will then be towed to a port in Genoa, Italy, to be scrapped.

Saturday's full moon will be a so-called supermoon and sky gazers can expect two more before the summer ends. While not quite a blood moon, a supermoon is quite the viewing event.

Pollution in US cities has been declining for decades now. But sometimes it takes a visual aid to drive the point home. NASA recently released a time lapse of nitrogen oxide--one of six federally regulated pollutants--in...

Observations made by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, have helped astronomers determine that gullies on the red planet's surface are mainly created by frozen carbon dioxide, and not by liquid water as previous...

Nuclear engineers at Oregon State University have developed a small, portable and inexpensive radiation detection device that should help people all over the world better understand the radiation around them, its type an...

CT Scanning and detailed analysis has revealed the grim last moments for two baby mammoths (named Lyuba and Khroma by researchers) about 42,000 years ago.

Belle and Babar have completed a joint book on their experimental work to prove the Kobayashi-Maskawa theory of CP-violation. To celebrate this achievement, the first special editions of the book are presented to Drs. Cr...

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is known for trying to solve really out-of-this-world problems. But the agency's latest project solves a more commonplace conundrum: how to hit a target, even if you have bad ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, has just a reported a major step in understanding photosynthesis, the process by which the Eart...

Golden Rice Compared to regular white rice, "golden" rice, at the top, has been genetically modified to produce beta carotene, a precursor to vitamin A. International Rice Research Institute via Wikipedia 1,700: the numb...