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A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal this morning (May 12), toppling buildings and killing at least a dozen people.

Chicks with dino-snouts? With a little genetic tinkering, for the first time scientists have created chicken embryos with broad, Velociraptor-like muzzles in the place of their beaks. The results shed new light on how th...

(Oregon State University) People living or working near active natural gas wells may be exposed to certain pollutants at higher levels than the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe for lifetime exposure. Air po...

Breathing air that has lower levels of oxygen is linked with signs of depression, according to a new study in animals.

From KQED Education Do Now: The California drought is bringing increased attention to resource use in agriculture--not only within the state, but around the world. With a growing global population, use of land and water ...

A boy in Illinois whose left eye glowed with white light in a cellphone photo turned out to have a rare type of cancer that's diagnosed in only a few hundred U.S. children each year.

The powerful aftershock that struck Nepal today (May 12) could trigger deadly landslides on slopes already weakened by the April 25 earthquake, experts said.

For the first time, a researcher at the University of Waterloo has theoretically demonstrated that it is possible to detect a single nuclear spin at room temperature, which could pave the way for new approaches to medica...

Genetics researcher (and mentor) Bruce Jackson, PhD, traces ancestry and solves crimes with the powerful tool of DNA on this edition of "Scientist and Engineers on Sofas and other furnishings"!

Brain waves can reveal when a group is working in sync, and which team member is likely to emerge as a leader, new research suggests.

Some human genes have activity levels that vary with the seasons, a new study shows.

Madam, I'm Adam. A man, a plan, a canal: Panama. Palindromes are everywhere -- including on the calendar.

If you drive enough, chances are you'll be involved in an accident. For the best drivers, perhaps it's more likely than not the other car's at fault. But most of...

Global weather could be in turmoil this year if the Pacific Ocean sees a "super" El Niño, one that may be even more devastating than the 1997/98 event

Tuesday's quake released only a little of the stress in the ground beneath Nepal, so the risk of another major event remains

MIT's cognitive seabots are designed to plan autonomously and work together like ... well, like the crew from Star Trek, actually.

Which dietary supplements are truly dangerous, and which actually help?

In winter, genes make your immune system more active. This protects you from cold and flu bugs, but also leads to heart attacks and autoimmune illness

Rydberg atoms, atoms whose outermost electrons are highly excited but not ionized, might be just the thing for processing quantum information. These outsized atoms can be sustained for a long time in a quantum superposit...

The Standard Model of particle physics, sometimes called "The Theory of Almost Everything," is the best set of equations to date that describes the universe's fundamental particles and how they interact. Yet the theory h...

Bright spots in the latest pictures from NASA’s mission to the dwarf planet may be water ice, researchers say --

They are 'strange' materials, insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface. They also have properties that make them excellent candidates for the development of spintronics ('spin-based electronics') and more i...