The auto industry campaigned against the relatively bloody rise of cars in the early 20th century via TV, the term "jaywalker" and school safety patrols
Overlooked aromatic compounds make huge contributions to tomato flavor, which suggests a new way to improve the taste of high-yield crops
This week marks the anniversary of the largest earthquake recorded, a magnitude-9.5 along southern Chile's coast in 1960
Company founded to commercialize solar hydrogen device goes back to drawing board for cost reasons
Mice whose sleep patterns were altered had more difficulties conceiving and carrying pregnancies to term. The findings may have implications for women trying to conceive
A health-agency windfall includes funding for two promising clinical trials, one focusing on prevention and the other on early treatment
Although there is an urban legend that the world will end this year based on a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar, some researchers think a 40-year-old computer program that predicts a collapse of socioeconomic order and massive drop in human population in this century may be on target
An innovative effort would embed sensors in agricultural fields in a bid to cut down on irrigation--saving farmers money and preserving water for endangered species
The key-sized, wi-fi-enabled device has a 1.5-GHz processor and is made to work as a stand-alone computer, but it needs a power source
Plastic Logic will try to sell its relatively expensive technology to other companies that might want to use it in their own products
Mere minutes of therapy quieted brain regions that process fear. Six months later, those areas remained less active than before therapy
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