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Cancer screening is a critical approach for preventing cancer deaths because cases caught early are often more treatable. But while there are already existing ways to screen for different types of cancer, there is a grea...

The Southwest faces a dry and dusty forecast, with an 80 to 90 percent chance of a decade-long drought striking the region this century.

Advanced Navy Strike Fighter Concept Art Boeing The Department of Defense wants future generations of fighter aircraft to come with copilots already installed. According to the U.S. Naval Institute, both the Navy and the...

After an exciting August that featured a "super" supermoon and the Perseid meteor shower, September may feel like a bit of a letdown for astronomy fans. But there are two standout events this month: the final supermoon o...

An invasive species of cricket is displacing domestic crickets in the eastern United States, a study published in the journal PeerJ finds. The Asian camel cricket, Diestrammena asynamora, is occupying U.S. homes, particu...

Hubristic humans should heed the tale of the passenger pigeon's demise, recounted by three books published on the centenary of its extinction

A couple of juvenile squirrels were found trapped in the base of a porch column. Fearing that they were abandonned by their mother, the Humane Society's Wildlife Services engineered a small ladder for them.

The number of people infected with Ebola in West Africa will likely increase significantly over the next few weeks, according to the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The geckos Russia sent to space to have sex have sadly perished, the Russian space agency said yesterday (Sept. 1). The mission's goal was to study the animals' mating, fertilization and embryonic development in a zero-g...

The scream of a Formula 1 engine, the growl of a luxury saloon: both evoke visceral reactions. Can electric cars do the same? (full text available to subscribers)

(Phys.org) --Chemical reactions drive the mechanisms of life as well as a million other natural processes on earth. These reactions occur at a wide spectrum of temperatures, from those prevailing at the chilly polar icec...

Propane Tank Jessie Eastland aka Robert DeMeo Propane, the gas that fuels your barbecue (and perhaps one day your car), may soon have a new, renewable source. Researchers in Finland and England developed a genetic proces...

Physicists may have overlooked hints of supersymmetry --

Humans innovate to dodge disaster, and we are pretty good at it, according to The Big Ratchet by Ruth DeFries - but can we do it indefinitely?

An invasive species of camel cricket from Asia is now far more common in American basements than the native variety, a citizen science project found.

For the first time in weeks, a gorilla with a nasty sinus infection is breathing through his nose again.

Zookeepers at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle arranged for a 35-year-old gorilla to have surgery after a CT scan revealed that he had a severe sinus infection.

These seven kids prove that grown-ups aren't the only ones who can discover cool stuff.

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The dumping of millions of tonnes of sediment in the Great Barrier Marine Park looks set to be scrapped, but the sediment still has to go somewhere

It’s no secret that in the digital age, social relationships are changing. The rise of social media has forced us to rely on the ability to read between the lines more than ever as tweets and Facebook posts can offer o...

The alert warning for the area surrounding Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano was kept at orange on Tuesday, indicating increased unrest with greater potential for an eruption. Smoke is spewing from the volcano, and lava is s...