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California blue whales have recovered from whaling, according to new research by the University of Washington. Researchers say this is the only population of blue whales to have rebounded from being hunted.

The FDA has granted approval for a new cancer drug that uses the body's own immune system to fight tumors, and is the first in what is hoped to be a new range of drugs that could revolutionize how some cancers are treate...

Tesla Motors is building a new factory in Nevada to produce batteries for its electric cars, the company announced Thursday (Sept. 4).

The outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa has now claimed more than 2,000 lives.

A small pit filled with ancient Roman jewelry dating back nearly 2,000 years to a violent riot around A.D. 61 was unearthed beneath a London-area department store, according to a British archaeology organization.

Slow-moving lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is about a week away from the cluster of homes and farms in the Kaohe Homesteads neighborhood.

Breathing in xenon, a gas used in people for anesthesia, may help treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other conditions linked with fear and anxiety, a new study in rats suggests.

It may look like a softy, but this robot is a rugged survivor that can survive fire, ice and getting squashed by a car

In an experiment that sounds more like science fiction than reality, two humans were able to transmit greetings to each other using only a digital connection to link their brains.

A group of tobacco experts has called into question the reliability of the World Health Organization's guidelines on e-cigarettes

An Australian Federal Court has upheld last year's ruling that firms can patent naturally occurring genes as long as they are isolated from the body

NASA's Alice ultraviolet, or UV, spectrograph aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta comet orbiter has obtained the first "far ultraviolet spectra" of a cometary surface, scientists announced Thursday. Rosetta, which...

A US court rules that BP's gross negligence was largely responsible for the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving it liable for a huge fine

It’s September and that means we’re on the cusp of seasonal change. So as you take time to reflect on the changes happening in the physical world, here’s a list of excellent articles around the web that will get yo...

Networks are tapping into your personal data to show you ads based on your demographic or even your voting record

The June 27th flow is on the move and is seen here advancing east on September 3rd, 2014. It was .8 miles from the Wao Kele o Puna forest reserve at that point. On September 5th, the USGS issued a warning for the Kaohe H...

Waves in superconductors were the inspiration for the Higgs boson, but they had remained almost as elusive as their particle physics equivalent - until now

New mushroom-shaped animals from the bottom of the sea look a lot like organisms that thrived just before the explosion of animal life more than half a billion years ago

Censored: How the Army Eats In this issue, a telling line reads: "The censors have not allowed the press of the world to state whether or not explosives were dropped on the fortifications of... --

The 1,500-year-old papyrus, which mentions the Last Supper and manna from heaven, likely originated in an ancient city in Egypt and was probably worn by a villager there as a protective charm or amulet.

Within physics there are certain physical quantities that play a central role. These are things such as the mass of an electron, or the speed of light, or the universal constant of gravity. We aren't sure why these const...

Not all caffeine is created equal. Researchers recently sequenced the genome of the coffee plant and found that the caffeine in your morning cup evolved independently from caffeine found in other plants.