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For much of history, builders and makers fixated on the monumental--pyramids, cathedrals, skyscrapers, aircraft carriers. Increasingly, however, the cutting edge focus is smaller. Much smaller. The field of nanotechnolog...

Enjoy the recent slowdown in global warming while it lasts, because it's probably the last one we will get this century

A new volcanic eruption in southeast Iceland is fountaining lava nearly 200 feet (60 meters) into the air.

A diminutive eruption in the Holuhraun lava field north of the Bardarbunga volcano Sunday led the Icelandic Meteorological Office to raise the aviation color code to red in the region, the country's Department of Civil P...

For decades, researchers have used petri dishes to study cell movement. These classic tissue culture tools, however, only permit two-dimensional movement, very different from the three-dimensional movements that cells ma...

Paleo-Eskimos, the ancestors of modern-day Inuit and Native Americans and the earliest people to settle the North American Arctic, were isolated from other cultures for 4,000 years before vanishing around 1300 A.D., DNA ...