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Monarch butterflies could disappear from North America unless more is done to protect their rapidly vanishing habitats, conservation groups told the Obama administration in a legal petition Tuesday. The filing seeks to l...

Scientists have made great strides in decoding the mysteries of Stonehenge, one of the ancient world's most enigmatic relics; but there's still much more to the monument than meets the eye. The area surrounding its massi...

SpaceX decided this week to delay the overnight launch of its AsiaSat 6 telecommunications satellite in order to conduct further tests on the Falcon 9 rocket, CEO Elon Musk said in a statement.

Aromatic compounds are found widely in natural resources such as petroleum and biomass, and breaking the carbon?carbon bonds in these compounds plays an important role in the production of fuels and valuable chemicals fr...

Supercavitating Submarine South China Morning Post The submarine of the future may come to America in a super fast bubble, traveling under water. Researchers at China's Harbin Institute of Technology developed a new conc...

An unusual type of fish that can walk and breathe air develops quite differently when it is raised on land, rather than in water. The study holds clues to a pivotal moment in animal evolution, when the first creatures mo...

A new atlas draws on thousands of records reaching back to the 18th century and describes more than 9000 species, ranging from microbes to whales

Quantum imaging outlines objects with light that does not interact with them --

African fish called bichir have lungs and can walk on land. In a new study, researchers raised juvenile bichir on land, and compared them with bichir raised in water.

Eavesdropping on Saturn's rings has given us clues about surprises in the gas giant's interior

Shrödinger's cat is a thought experiment that has fascinated physicists for decades. An experiment explores its ramifications with surprising results.

Just as with humans, when wolves see one of their fellow creatures yawn, they do it too, a new study suggests. And the contagious yawning could be a sign that these animals have the capacity for empathy, the researchers ...

An archaeological excavation at a Bronze Age palace in modern-day Israel revealed an astonishingly intact ancient wine cellar. A chemical analysis of residue from the jars showed that the wine had traces of pine resin, h...

See how ice bulldozes black boulders across Death Valley National Park's Racetrack Playa.

Scientists obsessed with Death Valley's sailing stones have solved the Racetrack Playa mystery.

What causes boulders to glide hundreds of metres across a desert lake bed? Time-lapse footage and smart rocks have helped Ralph Lorenz crack the puzzle (full text available to subscribers)

Partial Map of the Internet, 2005 "Internet map 1024" by The Opte Project - Originally from the English Wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY 2.5. If you looked at the news or Twitter this morning -- or perhaps you couldn't, b...

The X Prize Foundation is hosting a $10 million competition to develop a mobile health-monitoring device that can diagnose and interpret a set of 15 medical conditions and monitor five vital signs. Here are devices from ...

Scientists manipulated mice brain cells using light and changed the emotional aspects of their memories.

Even though ferocious snowstorms will become more frequent this century, their intensity will stay the same.

Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team of physicists including Andrea Pocar, Laura Cadonati and doctoral student Keith Otis at the University of Massachusetts Amherst repo...

Unusual fish with lungs have developed walking techniques and bodies like those of the ancestors of four-legged animals after being raised on land