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El Niño conditions continue to sputter in the tropical Pacific Ocean, pushing back the odds of even a weak El Niño emerging this winter, forecasters said today (Nov. 6).

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Arctic squirrels are circadian superheroes.

There is a surprising genetic unity between the earliest known Europeans and contemporary Europeans, ancient DNA reveals. This finding suggests that a complex network of sexual exchange may have existed across Europe ove...

Theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed will present a free live Webcast on the latest insights into the nature of spacetime from the quantum world   --

Think you can dissolve a body in an acid bath, Breaking Bad-style, and get away with it? Think again, says forensic scientist Erwin Vermeij (full text available to subscribers)

Just like Navy engineers who jam the sonar of enemy ships, bats can jam the signals of other bats to ward off competition for food, a new study finds.

Mexican free-tailed bats use echolocation to hunt, but they also emit jamming signals to fend off competitors. Mexican free-tailed bats use echolocation to hunt, but they also emit jamming signals to fend off competitors...

The number of tobacco shops in an area could affect teenagers' smoking habits, according to recent research from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Teens who live close to several tobacco shops are nearly 50 percen...

Ebola transmission in the three West African countries fighting the outbreak remains "persistent and widespread," the World Health Organization said Wednesday, and the United Nations is struggling to come up with the res...

An orphaned sea otter pup, just a week old and underweight, was rescued from a beach in California last month. Now, the camera-friendly creature is starting over in the Midwest, with 24-hour care at Chicago's Shedd Aquar...

The seemingly simple process of phase changes--those transitions between states of matter--is more complex than previously known, according to research based at Princeton University, Peking University and New York Univer...

The Mexican free-tailed bat sabotages the echolocation signals of its fellows so that it can home in on their winged prey for itself

Because bees are big business in the U.S., collecting and sharing data about the insect is important to address the decline in bee populations.

Lifelogging is more than just counting steps. More tech firms are trying to predict your health using data from devices like Fitbits

Hidden away under frozen ground for nearly 10,000 years, one extremely well-preserved creature is finally ready to give up its secrets.

The preserved remains of a Steppe bison (Bison priscus) -- an ancient relative of modern bison -- was found in eastern Siberia. Scientists have now performed a necropsy of the 9,000-year-old bison mummy.

Sometimes people report they can feel a strange presence around them -- a ghost. Now scientists create the eerie sensation in people using a robot.

Tomorrow a new film which chronicles the personal life of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is released to US audiences. The Theory of Everything is an adaptation of a memoir by Hawking's first wife, Jane Wilde, and centers...

Sometimes people report they can feel a strange presence around them, a ghost. Now scientists create the eerie sensation in the lab using a robot.

Physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed will give a live lecture on recent quantum mechanics research and the evolving understanding of space-time at the Perimeter Institute on Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. ET.

A childhood love of drawing leads Sandy Kawano into a branch of biology studying in animal body shapes