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Women are perceived as less likable and competent than men when they ask for flexible work arrangements to accommodate childcare responsibilities, a new study suggests.

At the bottom of the ocean, a network of underwater microphones eavesdrops day in and day out on the squeaky laments of whales, the rumbles of earthquakes and the drone of passing ships.

Ever heard of the water window? It consists of radiations in the 3.3 to 4.4 nanometre range, which are not absorbed by the water in biological tissues. New theoretical findings show that it is possible to develop coheren...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a novel and versatile modeling strategy to simulate polyelectrolyte systems. The model has applications for creating new materials as well as for studying p...

In the fall of 2005, I and a couple hundred other new students at Columbia University's journalism school walked into a lecture hall for a series of welcome speeches, and two things happened that... --

As readers of this blog know, late last spring I spoke at a cool conference in England called How the Light Gets In, where I hung out with all kinds of professional reality-ponderers. --

Hovav Shacham, one of the security researchers who conducted the study, poses for a full-body scan. Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Since 2010, the Transportation Security Administration has largely dismissed the p...

We've all been there, and none of us remembers. But psychedelic drugs, love and travel are just some of the ways we can roll parts of our brain back to infancy (full text available to subscribers)

Gobs of microscopic organisms called algae may have met their match in viruses that can invade their cells, ultimately leading to death, new research suggests.

When looking for a place to settle down, young corals and fish use chemical cues to sniff out bad neighborhoods littered with seaweed.

Dr. Kent Brantly, an American doctor who contracted the Ebola virus in West Africa, is cured of the disease and was released today from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

The western United States has suffered a crippling drought for the past three years, but researchers now have a fuller picture of the extent of damage, thanks to a new way to measure how much water has been lost.

A new study suggests a natural climate cycle in the North Atlantic gobbled Earth's extra heat, putting global warming on pause.

An experiment at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory revealed a well-organized 3-D grid of quantum "tornadoes" inside microscopic droplets of supercooled liquid helium - the first time this fo...

The chemical fingerprint of an ancient star suggests its predecessors were more massive than thought, ending up as huge supernovae

Undercover look into the secrets of China's online censorship system shows how anything that encourages collective action makes the authorities nervous

Birds lost the taste receptors for sugar, but hummingbirds clearly have a sweet tooth. Now we know how they regained it

The Earth-orbiting Suomi NPP satellite has spit out some breathtaking shots of humanity's home planet, including one of the Eastern Hemisphere released yesterday that shows swirls of clouds above a blue, green and brown ...

We just celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. The fact that we went to the Moon with 1960s technology is ...

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Since 1970, cities have been warming, and have been getting hotter far faster than adjacent rural areas

A team of researchers has discovered microbial life in a lake nearly 2,600 feet below the Antarctic ice sheet, the first evidence that life can exist in such a cold, dark world. The latest discovery further bolsters the ...