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Fossils discovered in the Moroccan Sahara and a partial skull and other remains that have been in museum collections for as long as a century have led researchers to conclude the Spinosaurus was the first truly semiaquat...

In the film Minority Report, PreCrime police combine psychic premonitions with search and surveillance technology to prevent murders before they occur, resulting in a homicide-free society. Could a similar approach ultim...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have directly entangled three photons in the most technologically useful state for the first time, thanks in part to superfast, super-efficient single-photon detectors ...

ISS resupply vessels need protection from speeding debris --

Can a robot learn right from wrong? Attempts to imbue robots, self-driving cars and military machines with a sense of ethics reveal just how hard this is

From strange aquatic dinosaurs to more to the story of Stonehenge, here are the most interesting stories we found in Science this week.

(DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) A comprehensive look at how tiny particles in a lithium ion battery electrode behave shows that rapid-charging the battery and using it to do high-power, rapidly draining work m...

(University of Colorado Denver) When active, the protein called Ral can drive tumor growth and metastasis in several human cancers including pancreatic, prostate, lung, colon and bladder. Unfortunately, drugs that block ...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) UNC researchers discovered how two genes -- Period and Cryptochrome -- keep the circadian clocks in cells in proper rhythm with the 24-hour day. The finding has implications for...