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The world's saltiest body of water, hidden away in a dry Antarctic valley, had its portrait taken earlier this year by a NASA satellite.

Actress Lindsay Lohan has contracted a mosquito-borne virus that can cause debilitating joint pain, according to the actresses' social media accounts.

Magnetic anomalies in rocks indicate that lightning may be a major player in weathering mountains. Julia Rosen reports.   --

Flooding and landslides brought on by Tropical Storm Jangmi in the Philippines have killed at least 31 people and left seven others missing, according to the Associated Press. Thousands were evacuated as the storm moved ...

California could kick off the new year with record low temperatures. The National Weather Service has issued more than 30 winter storm warnings, freeze watches and wind advisories for several regions ahead of a cold fron...

A second aid worker is undergoing tests for Ebola in Scotland after returning from West Africa, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed Tuesday. But Sturgeon stressed there was a "low probability" that the ai...

A volcanic eruption nearly 40,000 years ago didn't cause the Neanderthal's extinction, new research suggests.

Big climate news burbled out of the ocean in 2014. Most research findings were hot, but not pretty.

The first lab analogue study of Venus's surface composition finds that it might be made of granite, a key component of Earth's continents

In what they call a "weird little corner" of the already weird world of neutrinos, physicists have found evidence that these tiny particles might be involved in a surprising reaction.

Droughts in California may cause not only water shortages, but also conditions ripe for dangerous forest fires, landslides and poor water quality.

From launching hardware to the International Space Station to hosting events in San Diego, New York City, and Amsterdam--it was a big year for Singularity University. The summer’s Graduate Studies Program...

Email, the Internet and cellphones might not be cutting-edge, but they're the tools most workers rely on to get their jobs done, according to a new survey.

Kandis Elliot is on the Botany Department staff at the University of Wisconsin, but she's not a scientist or professor. Elliot is an artist and transforms mere photographs of plants into lush, painterly artworks that edu...

BUILD a better battery, to paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the world will beat a path to your door. For consumer goods, from computers to cars, "better" means "better than lithium-ion". And several groups of engineer...

Bloomin' algae... ALGAL blooms happen when waste water from farms, factories and dwellings carries large amounts of normally scarce nutrients like nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous into rivers, lakes and seas. Algae, o...

Skin in the game IF IT wasn't for the smell, you might imagine yourself to be in a sculpture garden. There are human figures everywhere: some emaciated, almost but not quite to the point of emptiness; some abstracted bey...

We invite applications for the 2015 Richard Casement internship. We are looking for a would-be journalist to spend three months of the summer working on the newspaper in London, writing about science and technology. Appl...

IN MARCH, after a two-year shut down for an upgrade, the world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will reopen for business. The rest of the year will see physicists biting their nails--for o...

Thanks to the excitement surrounding the dig at Amphipolis, Greece, dozens of unofficial artistic reconstructions have cropped up on YouTube and other websites.

Ultracold atomic gases have been widely considered as ideal platforms for quantum simulation. Thanks to the clean environment and the highly tunable parameters in these systems, many interesting physical models can be si...

Being lonely is seriously bad for your health. Clues from our ancient past and the animal kingdom could guide the search for solutions, say John and Stephanie Cacioppo