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Even 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion km) away from Earth, the New Horizons mission at Pluto could help scientists learn more about planet Earth.

Health care debates are more about politics than a rational discussion to improve people's health, according to researchers who examined arguments made over the last 40 years.

A researcher at Indiana University has developed a new mathematical framework to more effectively analyze "controlled chaos," or how interactions among highly complex systems affect their operation and vulnerability.

During a recent marine excursion, researchers searching for lobster larva unexpectedly discovered a geologic wonder: a 50-million-year-old cluster of extinct volcanoes submerged in the water off eastern Australia.

Pluto may only be the beginning of NASA New Horizons' exploration of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt.

Investigation of imagery and other data from the approaching probe reveal Pluto to be larger than previous estimates. Principal investigator Alan Stern explains the implications on ice composition, rock estimates, and at...

When people forage for wild mushrooms, they may mistakenly eat a poisonous variety, a new case shows.

The former planet is less than a day from its close-up, and it is already showing ice caps, streams of nitrogen and a bigger girth than expected

Today, NASA's New Horizons craft skims within just 13,000 kilometres of Pluto. New Scientist is at mission control - and we'll be posting the news as it happens here

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers with Université Paris-Sud and Université P.M. Curie/Université Paris-Diderot, both in France, has discovered that putting certain types of bacteria into an ordinary fluid, can cause i...

Brian Aguado highlights a recent hot article in Biomaterials Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object 10,000 times its size. It's an advance that could have huge implications for a variety of imaging a...

On Tuesday morning (July 14) -- nine and a half years after launching, and a quarter-century after its mission began to take shape -- NASA's New Horizons probe will perform history's first flyby of Pluto.

Parents whose children have cancer are a very resilient group, researchers have found.

Stunning mosaics have turned up during an archaeological dig of a fifth-century synagogue in northern Israel.

Novel gold spirals unearthed in Danish town with a reputation for mystical gold.

A pile of 2,000 tangled gold spirals that bring to mind heaps of the fairy tale princess Rapunzel's golden locks were recently unearthed in Denmark.

(Cornell University) In a breakthrough for nanoscience, Cornell University polymer engineers have made such a mold for nanostructures that can shape liquid silicon out of an organic polymer material. This paves the way f...

(University of the Pacific) A new report to California lawmakers on hydraulic fracturing provides an important road map for scientists as they strive to produce energy while protecting human health and the environment, a...

(Geological Society of America) In the July issue of GSA Today, Franz Neubauer of the University of Salzburg and Fariba Kargaranbafghi of the University of Yazd describe thinning of the lithosphere that they associate wi...

(Thomas Jefferson University) A single molecule called DNA-PKcs may drive metastatic processes that turn cancer from a slowly growing relatively benign disease to a killer.

(Geological Society of America) Super-eruptions are not the only type of eruption to be considered when evaluating hazards at volcanoes with protracted eruption histories, such as the Yellowstone (Wyoming), Long Valley (...