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Extreme weather in the southern and Midwestern US has killed at least 43 people. El Niño and a strong polar vortex are being blamed

Fabiola Gianotti, who this week takes the helm at CERN--home to world's largest particle accelerator, is seen as a new breed of scientist. Initially trained in arts and literature, she came to physics relatively late. Sh...

Small outbreaks of the plague still occur in the western United States, and now new research shows these clusters don't happen at random. Instead, they tend to pop up in areas that have certain mix of climates, animals a...

Foster, from the USA wants to know:Could the tens of thousands of windmills across the United States be at least partially responsible for the recent change in weather patterns, and particularly the drought in California...

Tasmanian devils are plagued by at least two kinds of cancer that can be spread from animal to animal, new research shows.

The mysterious disappearance of electrons in the atmosphere could be caused by meteors burning up in the sky, new research suggests.

I have something to admit--to this day, I'm in awe of Wikipedia. Humanity has created a massive repository of our knowledge available for free to anyone with an Internet connection....

UK flood policy needs a complete overhaul says the Environment Agency, including accepting that flooding is inevitable

Seismic equipment installed in Iraq to detect earthquakes recorded plenty of other big bangs -- explosions from nearby mortars and car bombs.

Speculations around whether biotech stocks are in a bubble remain undecided for the second year in a row. But one thing stands as indisputable--the field made massive progress during 2015,...

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers working at Stanford University has extended the record for quantum superposition at the macroscopic level, from 1 to 54 centimeters. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the t...

We live on a spinning and orbiting world, but we don't usually think about our other, greater motions through the cosmos—maybe we should --

ANYONE in America who found a radio-controlled model aeroplane or multicopter drone nestled beneath the Christmas tree ought by now to have registered it with the Federal Aviation Administration, following mandatory safe...

Here is a roundup of what scientists learned about marijuana during 2015.

New findings could help explain the apparent 'sixth sense' we have for danger in social situations, with the direction of a person's gaze being a crucial cue. People with non-clinical anxiety are particularly well poised...

A team of scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences has proposed a two-dimensional metamaterial composed of ...

(Geological Society of America) In their article for Geosphere, R. Craig Kochel and colleagues discuss the geomorphic impact of the flooding caused from Tropical Storm Lee in September 2011 on several large watersheds of...

(American Institute of Physics) What can mathematical modeling teach us about the micrometeorology of the southern Amazonian 'transitional' forest? Quite a lot, it turns out. This particular forest is located between the...

(eLife ) New findings could help explain the apparent 'sixth sense' we have for danger in social situations, with the direction of a person's gaze being a crucial cue. People with non-clinical anxiety are particularly we...

(Hiroshima University) Researchers in Japan and China identified the requirements for the development of new types of extremely low power consumption electric devices by studying thin films made of Cr-doped (Sb, Bi)2Te3....

This year, when your family gathers around the tree on Christmas morning, be glad you aren't a cricket. The best gifts they ever get are gelatinous balls of protein. Here are five of the strangest, and most horrifying, p...

From record heat to the Pope's climate push to Paris, these are the climate stories that shaped 2015.