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Dreamy swirls and loops seen on satellite represent a cyanobacteria bloom in the Baltic Sea.

New images have captured the eruption and ash plumes coming from a towering volcano that looms over Quito, Ecuador.

A cunning experiment plugs loopholes in previous demonstrations of quantum "spookiness," a concept that galled Einstein --

Louisiana's dramatically enlarged lakes and inundated marshes -- stark reminders of Hurricane Katrina's ferocity 10 years ago -- are prominent in a new satellite image.

Consider the pendulum of a grandfather clock. If you forget to wind it, you will eventually find the pendulum at rest, unmoving. However, this simple observation is only valid at the level of classical physics--the laws ...

Twin pandas born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo would have been fraternal brothers, if the firstborn cub hadn't died just five days after making its debut on Earth.

Engineers have just made assembling functional heart tissue as easy as fastening your shoes. The team has created a biocompatible scaffold that allows sheets of beating heart cells to snap together just like Velcro.

Catastrophic volcanic eruptions about 250 million years ago spewed enough lava to cover Australia, triggering Earth's worst mass extinction, in which 90 percent of sea creatures were wiped off the face of the planet, sci...

In a new study, 10 volunteers had lone star ticks feed on them for 15 minutes so researchers could closely examine the bites that these bugs cause.

In all organisms, water's pH has a profound effect. Because the interaction of carbon dioxide and water explains the natural acidity of water and all accompanying reactions, it is considered a vital reaction by scientist...

Viruses are able to redirect the functioning of cells in order to infect them. Inspired by their mode of action, scientists have designed a "chemical virus" that can cross the double lipid layer that surrounds cells, and...

If you think that performing CPR on a person whose heart has stopped is a surefire way to save their life, you may be watching too much TV. The truth is more depressing than fiction, according to a new study. While medic...

Tumors are notoriously difficult to study in their natural habitat -- body tissues -- but a new synthetic tissue environment may give cancer researchers the next-best look at tumor growth and behavior. Researchers have n...

Physicist Stephen Hawking made a splash this week when he announced that he had solved a vexing conundrum that had puzzled generations of leading physicists - including the 73-year-old scientific superstar himself - for ...

An update to the serving sizes listed on food labels will better reflect the amount of food people actually eat, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says. But determining an appropriate serving size may be trickier th...

Yes, astronauts landed on the moon. But that doesn't mean NASA has been completely honest. Free fall aboard NASA's vomit comet, where gravity is anything but micro. Starting in the 1970's, for some reason I have yet to d...

Smoking pot frequently may lower men's sperm counts, a new study finds.

It has long been a mystery why some earthquakes strike towns in seemingly earthquake-proof regions, but researchers now have a potential explanation for why temblors sometimes rattle where they're not expected.

A new method of manufacturing glass could lead to the production of 'designer glasses' with applications in advanced photonics, whilst also facilitating industrial scale carbon capture and storage. An international team ...

Not just anything is allowed to enter the nucleus, the heart of eukaryotic cells where, among other things, genetic information is stored. A double membrane, called the nuclear envelope, serves as a wall, protecting the ...

A century-long debate about whether quantum mechanics described reality or masked a deeper layer, as Einstein suggested, has concluded - quantum reality won

New research examines the experiences of California residents who have been prescribed medical marijuana and the stigma they experience from public opinion. The findings indicate that the stigma of using medical marijuan...