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An accidental breach by an EPA cleanup crew sent 3 million gallons of acidic, heavy-metal-laden water into Colorado's waterways. How do you clean up a river? The answer is twofold: treatment and dilution.

Precise information about the magnetic properties of nuclei is critical for studies of what's known as the 'weak force.' While people do not feel this force in the same way they feel electricity or gravity, its effects a...

The most powerful laser beam ever created has been recently fired at Osaka University in Japan, where the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments (LFEX) has been boosted to produce a beam with a peak power of 2,000 trillion ...

Graphene, an atom-thick material with extraordinary properties, is a promising candidate for the next generation of dramatically faster, more energy-efficient electronics. However, scientists have struggled to fabricate ...

King Tutankhamun's tomb has the faint etchings that may point to a hidden doorway, which one researcher thinks holds the tomb of Nefertiti.

California neighborhoods that have more medical marijuana dispensaries may also have more hospitalizations related to marijuana abuse or addiction, a new study finds.

A very unusual octopus has scientists wondering just how well they really know the mysterious eight-armed creatures that inhabit the world's oceans.

ALMOST all intelligent creatures, be they parrots, sharks or human beings, are vertebrates. This is inconvenient for anyone trying to understand the nature of intelligence because it means, by and large, that he can stud...

For any computer, being able to manipulate information is essential, but for quantum computing, singling out one data location without influencing any of the surrounding locations is difficult. Now, a team of Penn State ...

Matter and antimatter appear to be perfect mirror images of each other, scientists have discovered with unprecedented levels of precision, foiling hope of solving the mystery as to why there is far matter than antimatter...

In a stringent test of a fundamental property of the standard model of particle physics, known as CPT symmetry, researchers from the RIKEN-led BASE collaboration at CERN have made the most precise measurements so far of ...

US space agency hoped to be flying astronauts to the International Space Station by this year, but has had to extend contract with Russia for $490 million

Humans are great at picking up on important information in images - but can be swamped in data. Time to team up with computers

Gene editing has created cattle that do not need painful horn removal. The same technique can spare other new breeds from suffering or culling

Asteroids called Trojans sit in gravitational wells around planets in our solar system - now data from the Kepler spacecraft suggests it happens elsewhere too

Pledges on reducing carbon emissions by between 26 and 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 would not help towards world's 2 °C target, say critics

Some city birds like lining their nests with cigarette stubs, cutting parasite numbers but also damaging chicks' DNA

The discovery of thousands of bones at a site near Cardiff suggests massive bring-your-own-pig festivals helped Britons deal with the collapse of Bronze Age

By Friday, Japan's residents are expected to start getting first nuclear power since the shutdown of 48 reactors that followed the Fukushima disaster

A puffin relative is the only bird to migrate 8000 km between western Canada and Japan, then fly back - but what for? Conditions are the same at both ends

The Scottish government plans to prohibit the growing of genetically modified crops, making use of recent EU rules on opting out

A urine test may reveal how likely a pregnant woman is to have a successful pregnancy and give birth to a healthy child