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Officials in China have sealed off the city of Yumen after one resident died from bubonic plague, reports say. But this action is puzzling to U.S. infectious disease experts, who say the response seems extreme.

Somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, military and civilian experts aboard a U.S. cargo ship, the MV Cape Ray, are disposing of Syria's arsenal of deadly chemical weapons.

The doctor leading the response to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has been infected with the highly lethal virus, according to news reports.

Who will lay claim to having the world's largest particle smasher?. Could China become the collider capital of the world? Questions tease answers, following a news story in Nature on Tuesday. Proposals for two particle a...

Next-generation dark matter experiments get the green light -- Second generation dark matter detector coming to SNOLAB -- International committee looks toward a global future of particle physics discoveries -- Higgs boso...

Parallel Tyrannosaur footprints unearthed in Canada suggest the fearsome predators were pack animals that may have hunted in groups to increase their odds of survival.

A group of people in the Amazon who had been living without any contact to the outside world suffered an outbreak of the flu after fleeing attacks on t, Brazilian authorities say.

New tyrannosaur trackways unearthed in Canada suggest that the ferocious predators may have been pack animals.

The age at which girls reach puberty is influenced by a set of genes that were previously only known to be involved in the development of a fetus before birth, according to a new study.

String bends, tapping, vibrato and whammy bars are all techniques that add to the distinctiveness of a lead guitarist's sound, whether it's Clapton, Hendrix, or BB King.

Man's best friend does not like anything muscling in on that friendship; -- the first experimental test of jealousy in dogs shows that canines nip even at stuffed dogs when these fakes are taking away the attention of th...

How do great guitarists bend a string like Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix? One scientist sought to figure out how legendary performers make great music.

The feeding grounds of blue whales along the U.S. West Coast overlap dangerously with shipping lanes, placing the behemoths in danger of collisions with ships. This finding could help prevent human threats to these endan...

Researchers have tagged more than 100 blue whales off the California Coast, finding the behemoths feed around major shipping lanes.

The discovery of a new material combination that could lead to a more efficient approach to computer memory and logic will be described in the journal Nature on July 24, 2014. The research, led by Penn State University a...

A robot designed to work alongside humans in factories is finding a range of unusual alternative applications – from treating patients to farming in space

5 Turkish siblings, with very rare Uner Tan Syndrome (UTS), walk in lateral quadrupedal motion. Apes and all other primates use a diagonal limb-fall pattern. Credit: Shapiro LJ, Cole WG, Young JW, Raichlen DA, Robinson S...

People aren't the only polluters -- trees emit harmful compounds, too, as a recent map reveals. However, tree emissions would not be harmful were it not for the human emissions that react with these compounds, causing oz...

A new way of turning vegetable waste directly into bioplastics could make such materials even more environmentally friendly

The seafaring empire of Tonga, an archipelago of about 160 Polynesian Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, once spanned more than a thousand miles, serving as the hub through which distant settlements exchanged artifacts ...

Microgrids, which can connect to the main grid but also have their own, independent energy supply, increase energy efficiency and keep expensive power outages from spreading.

China's biggest search engine is pushing at the boundaries of artificial intelligence - and self-driving bikes are just the beginning