The wind belt that encircles Antarctica has been speeding up and creeping southward since the 1950. Now it might slow Southern Ocean sea level rise and lower the risk of glacial collapse...
Lacking in central coordination, the animal's tentacles can execute complex movements
A newly analyzed Kuiper Belt object is posing a challenge to planet-formation theories
The discovery of Panthera blytheae fossils strengthens an Asian origin for pantherine carnivores
"Positive-to-positive" transplants would create new pool of donors for infected patients
The costs of reducing emissions may be flash points along the path toward a 2015 Paris treaty
The country's space agency has released images of a lunar module and a rover ahead of a planned 2020 launch
The early bird's anatomy matches that of modern flightless birds, a paleontologist says
Social, behavioral and economic researchers hope to fend off "national security" and "U.S. economic interests" restrictions on NSF funding programs
The proposed project's accelerator ring would be 100 kilometers around and run at seven times the energy of the LHC
Budget woes have prompted cuts to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and Protein Structure Initiative, and brought scrutiny overall to expensive programs
Bacteria in scent glands give information about hosts' species, sex and reproductive state
Sunlight may have set the space rock spinning at breakup speed
There is limited evidence that warming oceans could make superstorms more likely
Heat differences meant impacts left larger, shallower basins on the lunar surface that faces Earth
An investigation claims to have turned up evidence of polonium poisoning in the death of the Palestinian leader but draws no certain conclusions
Infants's resistance to infections is suppressed to prevent inflammation from bacterial colonization
A proposed bill would require the NSF to justify awards using criteria including economic competitiveness and national defense
Despite political challenges, engineered primates could be better disease models than mice
Computer chips inspired by human neurons can do more with less power
