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Five days to learn a new skill, no experience coming in, and some very high stakes--welcome to the Tim Ferriss Experiment. Over the past year, bestselling author, angel investor, and...

CERN's nuclear physics facility ISOLDE will soon be producing radioactive ion beams at higher energies. The purpose of the HIE-ISOLDE (High Intensity and Energy ISOLDE) project, now in the advanced stages of construction...

Forest Service anticipates spending up to $1.6 billion fighting a fire season that could be worse than normal.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, produced by debris from Halley's Comet, will peak tonight. Find out where you can see the show, as well as a live webcast hosted by the Slooh observatory.

The nation's capital sits on shaky ground that jiggles like pudding when earthquakes rattle the East Coast.

Serious and even fatal accidents can happen while using exercise equipment, as seen with the death of SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg. But there are safety precautions people can take to prevent injury.

Image credit:  nasa.gov | ://1.usa.gov/1zxRkpq It isn't new, and it doesn't even qualify as a full-fledged planet. But Pluto, the dwarf planet in the depths of our solar system, is creating the brand of excitement among...

High-tech forms of carbon sprayed on to spiders ended up in their silk, making it ultra-tough and raising the prospect of materials with radically new properties

Researchers looking to capture the acoustic signature of thunder had to make their own lighting.

A Roman temple and settlement in modern-day Lebanon that have been damaged by war, disrupted by looters and encroached on by farmers still yield information about the site's history, a new study finds.

Just one well-placed slice into a particularly pungent onion can send even the most seasoned chef running for a box of tissues. Now, this humble root vegetable is proving its strength outside the culinary world as well -...

Cholera now menaces earthquake-stricken Nepal - but for the first time ever, Nepal wants to use a global vaccine stockpile to help keep it at bay

The world's largest particle smasher resumed colliding protons Tuesday as it gradually reboots following a two-year upgrade, Europe's physics lab CERN said.

The type of sugar in your drink may affect how much food you want to eat, researchers say.

What would it take for us to become the gods of a universe that we create, inhabited by creatures as smart and curious as us? (full text available to subscribers)

Giving patients a nontoxic strain of the bacteria C. difficile may actually ward off future infections

The Large Hadron Collider is back in the business of colliding particles. Today low-energy protons met in the hearts of the four Large Hadron Collider experiments. These test collisions will help the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS an...

Researchers from North Carolina State University and China's Suzhou Institute of Nano-Science and Nano-Biotics have developed an inexpensive technique called "microcombing" to align carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which can be ...

Radiation detectors, which monitor high-energy particles such as those produced by nuclear decay and cosmic radiation, are being used increasingly in medical imaging, petroleum well logging, astronomy and national securi...

Quantum computers are in theory capable of simulating the interactions of molecules at a level of detail far beyond the capabilities of even the largest supercomputers today. Such simulations could revolutionize chemistr...

Just one well-placed slice into a particularly pungent onion can send even the most seasoned chef running for a box of tissues. Now, this humble root vegetable is proving its strength outside the culinary world as well--...

The Chicxulub meteor impact 66 million years ago may have triggered a magnitude-11 earthquake that shook loose massive amounts of lava in India.