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(University of Melbourne) Scientists have developed a revolutionary new technology that can image and weigh single molecules and instantly identify a single virus or bacteria particle.

The aftermath of the Nepal earthquake brings a risk of disease outbreaks -- including measles and diarrheal diseases -- among the survivors.

The U.K. charity International Cat Care reached out to veterinary specialists after receiving surprising complaints from cat owners: Their feline companions were apparently having seizures in response to high-pitched sou...

What causes tremors? What makes them stop? Can they be predicted? Are our buildings as safe as they can be? --

Researching ghosts, ESP and precognition is real science, says Caroline Watt, and it takes more rigour than most (full text available to subscribers)

Not all living creatures are victims of climate change – some are actively helping to raise temperatures and melt ice

Riding in a helicopter or airplane can be a noisy experience for passengers. But researchers from North Carolina State University and MIT have developed a membrane that can be incorporated into aircraft to drastically re...

Subjects tricked into thinking that they were invisible sweated less when a brush stroke was applied  --

For 13 hours today, astronomers thought Earth had gained a new, temporary moon – but it turned out to be the Gaia space telescope

The newfound dinosaur species Chilesaurus diegosuarezi may be a cousin of the notorious Tyrannosaurus rex, but it didn't eat meat, a new study shows.

A 7-year-old boy spotted fossils of a wacky dinosaur related to T. rex that didn't share the infamous carnivore's appetite for meat, and instead the 9.8-foot-long (9 meters) dinosaur munched on plants

Biologically inspired gecko-bots? They aren't as rare as you might imagine. We've been covering them since 2009, and they've existed since at least 2006. That said, the latest generation, out of...

Add water to a half-filled cup and the water level rises. This everyday experience reflects a positive material property of the water-cup system. But what if adding more water lowers the water level by deforming the cup?...

Reptiles don't usually tuck into their own kind, but harsh environmental conditions may have pushed this adult iguana to its limits

As Pope Francis prepares a historic document to make environmental issues a priority for Catholics, a group of climate-change deniers is trying to convince the pontiff this week that global warming is nothing to worry ab...

Terrible as Saturday's earthquake was in Kathmandu, geologists fear more bad news to come as information filters in from the surrounding mountainous countryside which has been cut off from the world by the disaster.

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake taught us that managing and preventing landslides could save thousands of lives in Nepal over the coming weeks

In National Ignition Facility (NIF) inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments, the fusion fuel implodes at a high speed in reaction to the rapid ablation, or blow-off, of the outer layers of the target capsule. To re...

Transportation accidents, such as trucks crashing on a highway or rockets failing on a launch pad, can create catastrophic fires. It's important to understand how burning droplets of fuel are generated and behave in thos...

Fossil evidence suggests it wasn't climate change that killed off the enigmatic Ediacarans, Earth's first complex life, but competition from Cambrian life forms

Landslides coming off Catalina Island's steep slopes could send tsunamis racing toward popular Los Angeles and Orange County beaches.

Iridescent creatures -- such as dragonflies, catfish and boa constrictors -- often dazzle onlookers with their shimmering colors. These alluring, luminescent hues may be key to an animal's survival, helping it to confuse...