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CERN announced today at the 174th session of the CERN Council that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is gearing up for its second three-year run. The LHC is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world a...

Footage captured on wearable cameras contains a motion signature unique to you - protestors and police alike should beware

(Wake Forest University) Understanding how nitrite can improve conditions such as hypertension, heart attack and stroke has been the object of worldwide research studies. New research from Wake Forest University has pote...

IBM scientists in India developed an experimental power supply from reusable lithium-ion cells salvaged from three-year-old laptop battery packs. Larry Greenemeier reports.   --

he entire semiconductor industry, not to mention Silicon Valley, is built on the propensity of electrons in silicon to get kicked out of their atomic shells and become free. These mobile electrons are routed and switched...

Stony Brook University scientists have found the skull of a new "large-eyed agile herbivore" species, which may have lived among the later dinosaurs.

Cataloguing chimps, berries and other life in Africa, researchers race to protect biodiversity on a warming planet.

A new method that creates large-area patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets represents a potential manufacturing system to inexpensively mass produce innovations such as "plasmonic metamaterials" for ...

Researchers working in the Gulf of Mexico are using masses of jellyfish to help identify where the oceanic environment has changed. University of Southern Mississippi's Dr. Monty Graham explains why and how conditions in...

Explore how rising sea levels, increases in ocean heat and melting glaciers indicate a warming planet in this interactive.

Explore different types of greenhouse gas, from carbon dioxide to fluorinated gas, in this interactive graphic.

Explore the Keeling Curve, which has measured CO2 levels in the atmosphere since 1958, in this interactive graphic.

Find out how greenhouse gases trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere with this interactive graphic.

Jennifer Holm is an Earth systems scientist and terrestrial ecologist who uses models to study how forests respond to climate change.

Chris Wong is a research technician at University of California Berkeley where he investigates how trees like redwoods and sequoias function.

Melanie Harrison is a water quality specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She helps protect and restore threatened and endangered fish species.

Heather Cooley is a director at the Pacific Institute where she uses data to understand and make recommendations about California's water supply.

Evolutionary biologists have made great strides in understanding bird genetics and discoveries haves helped narrow down their ages and relationships.

Several organizations are working to help Ebola survivors make the transition back into their communities.

Birds -- like anteaters, baleen whales and turtles -- don't have teeth. But this wasn't always the case. The common ancestor of all living birds sported a set of pearly whites 116 million years ago, a new study finds.

A harsh storm that dumped heavy rain on parts of Washington and Oregon and killed two people in Northern California this week headed south early Friday, causing mudslides along the Ventura County coast.

Some museum experts in Boston are in for an exciting weekend, as they plan to X-ray a just-discovered time capsule that was buried by United States forefathers Paul Revere and Samuel Adams in 1795. The cigar box-sized co...