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A rapid rise in temperature in the Arctic region over the last two decades could be responsible for extreme weather events throughout the northern hemisphere, scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Rese...

Two Liberian doctors infected with the Ebola virus will receive the potentially lifesaving ZMapp, an experimental treatment, but the drug's maker says its supply is now exhausted. Mapp Biopharmaceuticals said in a statem...

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NASA researchers have created a detailed atmospheric simulation that may one day help them predict the weather with high accuracy.

Religious people are less likely than nonreligious people to report using pornography, but those who do use it are more likely to say they are addicted to porn, a new study finds.

After serving nearly 30 years as a doorstop for a nuclear physicist, a 210-million-year-old hunk of pink petrified wood has been recognized as the first fossilized fire scar ever recognized.

Just in time for World Elephant Day (Aug. 12), New York today banned the sale of ivory in the state.

Giving experimental treatments to patients infected with Ebola in West Africa is, indeed, the ethical thing to do, even though the risks and benefits of these treatments are unknown, a panel of experts has decided.

Photos of the first fire-scarred petrified wood ever found, from a national forest in Utah.

I’ve mentioned this before, but I hate, hate, hate spending more money on things than necessary. Experiences are more my style. Hence my happiness at using a six-year-old laptop for my work — that is, until it began ...

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is part of a new advisory board formed by Google that will help establish new guidelines for removal requests. Wertuose via Wikimedia Commons In the late 1990s, Mario Costeja González ra...

If you've ever spent any time watching a gecko, you may have wondered about their uncanny ability to adhere to any surface -- including upside down on ceilings. It turns out the little lizards can turn the "stickiness" o...

With the genre of science fiction, it can be fun to make comparisons between an imagined future and the current reality. A huge franchise in science fiction that seems rife for comparisons with modern technology is Star ...

A new paper by University of Notre Dame researchers describes their investigations of the fundamental optical properties of a new class of semiconducting materials known as organic-inorganic "hybrid" perovskites.

Smoking an electronic cigarette may come with unforeseen risks, such as exploding charging devices and accidental poisonings from nicotine exposure.

Ever bought a king-size box of colored pencils and marveled at all the names? Burnt sienna, cerulean blue, tuscan red. The world is overflowing with colors, too many to count or name. What if you had a single pen that co...

With the dazzling Perseid meteor shower about to peak Tuesday, Google is celebrating the annual stargazing event with a quick video featuring plenty of shooting stars.

It seems that legal high inventor Dr Z wasn't the first person to dabble in drugs they made in the lab. Here are some other psychonauts who did the same

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A Pipistrel Panthera In Flight Pipistrel An important part of plane design is making sure the plane still works even if the pilot doesn't. In this flight test video from Slovenian aircraft maker Pipistrel, two crew membe...

The tough little Antarctic midge has only 99 million base pairs in its genome, making it the owner of the smallest insect genome ever sequenced. The midge lacks repetitive DNA segments once called 'junk DNA,' perhaps bec...

Supercomputer simulation (called 'Nature Run 2') of Category-4 Typhoon Haitang (July 2005), based on 7 days of NASA's GOES-5 satellite data, shows winds peaking at ~160mph. Simulation Details: ://goo.gl/LWgggE