How soon humanity will have to move inland to escape rising seas depends in great part on how quickly West Antarctica's massive ice sheet shrinks. Scientists are finally beginning to agree on what controls the size of the sheet and its rate of disintegration
Computer analysis is helping to explain the appeal of Jackson Pollock's paintings. The artist's famous drips and swirls create fractal patterns, similar to those formed in nature by trees, clouds and coastlines
Every time a gamma-ray burst goes off, a black hole is born
Nearly 10 years after scientists isolated the gene responsible for Huntington's, they are still searching for how it wreaks its devastation
Dietary change was a driving force in human evolution
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