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Cyclones have been quietly costing the world for decades, costs that could grow due to climate change.

Combine the hard stuff in shrimp shells with a spider silk protein and you get shrilk, a tough, biodegradable replacement for world-choking plastics (full text available to subscribers)

Vaccine trials are starting but there won't be enough doses to make a difference until April - by which time the epidemic may have peaked in some regions

Marijuana use is becoming ever-more mainstream, with two states now allowing recreational use of the drug. From pot's mythical origins to false positives in baby urine,

From the cover of Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov Your Android phone (or iPhone, if that's how you roll) is an impressive machine, with computing speeds and storage capacities thousands of times those of desktop PCs from o...

It may seem innocuous now, but this little stone might have killed someone 700 years ago.

Did you know that some of your favorite celebrities started these successful charities?

Despite reassurances from health officials that Ebola is unlikely to spread in the United States, concerns about the disease in this country have grown. Why does Ebola scare us?

Mineral coatings on sand particles actually encourage microbial activity in the rapid sand filters that are used to treat groundwater for drinking, according to a paper published ahead of print in Applied and Environment...

A 47-year-old man being tested for Ebola in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is the first suspected case of the virus reaching Latin America. The unidentified patient arrived in Brazil on Sept. 19 from Guinea, one o...

NASA is preparing its orbiters and rovers on Mars for an unprecedented encounter with a comet as the space projectile is expected to fly by the red planet on Oct. 19. The comet C/2013 A1, also known as Siding Spring, wil...

Muscle loss is now seen as a cause - not a consequence - of disease and frailty in old age. Will muscle-boosting drugs aid those unable to exercise?

The experiments were carried out on endofullerenes, molecules of C60 into which smaller molecules of hydrogen (H2) had been inserted. The results, published in Physical Review Letters, represent the first known example o...

The fastest of Australia's cane toad invaders hop along straighter paths, allowing them to invade ever further and faster

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Satellite images reveal the fury of the storm that is set to hit Japan this weekend, just one week after the typhoon Phanfone struck

Neutron scattering experiments at the ILL have revealed the existence of quantum selection rules in molecules, the first experimental confirmation of its kind. Small molecules such as water and hydrogen were inserted int...

Can people think straight after getting tased with 50,000 volts? That burst of electricity can impair a person's ability to remember and process information for about an hour after the jolt, new research suggests.

What's the most fascinating, intriguing story you've read recently? The Hub team has put together our list of what we’re reading from around the web this week. Did we miss anything? If so, add it to the comments. SOCIA...

Powerful incoming meteors like the rock responsible for last year's explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia, may not be completely random after all

The Windy City is using sophisticated predictive models to pinpoint risk areas and help it reduce everything from rat problems to cases of lead poisoning

Researchers have identified a previously unknown mechanism that makes a rare kind of ceramics super-tough. The findings may show a way to compose super-hard and super-tough ceramics for industrial application, as the tea...