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By the end of the decade, Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf will disintegrate. That "conclusion is inescapable" according to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists participating in Operation IceBridge.

The oceans are teeming with a hidden web of organisms that may connect tiny bacteria and viruses to larger food webs, new research shows.

About 425 million years ago, a sneaky wormlike parasite invaded a crustacean before the two were fossilized together in the limestone of modern-day England, a new study finds.

It should be raptor egg blue instead of robin egg blue. Some modern birds lay colourful eggs, but now we know it's a trick their dinosaur ancestors used too

Two separate research teams have developed high-throughput techniques to quickly, easily and inexpensively give every individual cell in a sample a unique genetic barcode. This allows scientists to analyze complex tissue...

The West can expect its warm and dry weather to continue through the summer, while the central Plains will be relatively cool and wet.

A new prosthetic arm can be wired to tap into the part of a person's brain that plans out movements before the muscles do them, giving a person smoother control over the limb.

In 2009, several glaciers in the southern Antarctic Peninsula began shrinking at a dramatically accelerated rate, losing as much as 13 feet (4 m) of ice each year, according to a study in the journal Science.

Massive glaciers in the southern Antarctic Peninsula suddenly started to crumble and melt in 2009.

Genes mapped from thousands of newly discovered plankton species show striking similarities between human and ocean microbiomes

Yesterday's report into end-of-life care in the UK was a grim read. Many problems stem from doctors and relative not understanding how we die

Signs at public pools that discourage breath-holding competitions could save lives, according to a new report.

Natural beauty, ample amenities and tempting turquoise waters send one Hawaiian beach to the top of the rankings.

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Here's another lovely bit of physics poetry. Last week it was John Updike on neutrinos. This week it is Scottish mathematican and physicist, James Clerk Maxwell, who is most famous for his theory of electromagnetic radia...

A plant used in traditional Chinese medicine may help with weight loss, early results from animal studies suggest.

An extinct wolf's DNA has pushed back the origin of dogs by more than 10,000 years, but when humans domesticated them is still lost in the mists of time

The genome of 35,000-year-old wolf rib from Siberia suggests huskies carry ancient wolf DNA.

Male "purring" wolf spiders are virtuosos when it comes to leaf tapping – making sounds that travels through air to another leaf where a female picks it up

What is the metaverse? It's Philip Rosedale's second crack at playing god--at least in the virtual sense. Rosedale created his first virtual world, Second Life, in 2002. Now, he and...

From clever screens to super foods and computer games: the vision-boosting tricks your optician won't tell you about

Group therapy that encourages walking at home improves and prevents mobility loss among patients with clogged arteries in the legs, a study concludes. Clogged arteries in the legs can cause pain and fatigue while walking...