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Drastic Measures: 8 Wild Ways to Combat Invasive Species

Employing everything from love potion to meat-eating ants, scientists try to stem the influx of new invasive species with some "creative" ideas

Morphine and Other Pain Relief Drugs Used in Cancer Surgery May Spur Return of Malignancy

Could the anesthesia and painkillers used to make operations and recovery bearable also influence the risk that cancer will return?

Submerging Supreme: ROV Competition Preps Students for Future Deepwater Engineering [Slide Show]

Sixty teams from around the world are in Hawaii competing in the ninth-annual underwater International ROV Competition

Something to Chew On: Bite Marks Suggest Ancient Mammals Dined On Dinosaur Bones

Paleontologists discover evidence that Mesozoic mammals turned to dinosaur bones as dietary supplements.

Extra-Stormy Weather: Exoplanet Atmosphere Roils with Superspeed Winds

A new look at a well-observed extrasolar planet reveals winds whipping through its upper atmosphere at 7,000 kilometers per hour

Cancer Therapy Goes Viral: Progress Is Made Tackling Tumors with Viruses

A new generation of oncolytic viruses are entering late-stage clinical trials, repurposing smallpox and herpesvirus to take on tough tumors

When Good Germs Go Bad: "Friendly" Gut Bacteria Can Trigger Rheumatoid Arthritis in Mice

Scientists have traced the immune pathway from gut bacteria to the development of arthritis in mice

Space Rock Watch: Next Generation of Near-Earth Asteroid Lookout Comes Online

The first of four planned Pan-STARRS telescopes in Hawaii should boost asteroid detection rates over the next few years

Experto Crede: Climate Expertise Lacking among Global Warming Contrarians

A majority of scientists who dispute global warming lack the climatological expertise to do so

Sour Showers: Acid Rain Returns--This Time It Is Caused by Nitrogen Emissions

Acid rain is now caused by nitric rather than sulfuric acid--and it comes from more sources than the earlier acidic precipitation did

Data Deluge: Texas Flood Canyon Offers Test of Hydrology Theories for Earth and Mars

A massive overflow from a dam in 2002 carved a channel several meters deep into the bedrock in just days

Discoveries 2010: An Exhibition of Energy Sources from Past to Future

Probiotic Prophylactic: Bacteria May Protect Critically Ill Patients against Pneumonia

A solution of Lactobacillus administered to patients on mechanical ventilators cut the incidence of pneumonia nearly in half, suggesting that probiotics may be useful for the prevention of hospital-acquired infections...

Lost? Evidence That Sense of Direction Is Innate

Two new studies show how spatial parts of the brain are already functioning in infancy, revealing that not everything we understand about our surroundings is learned

Tissue.prn: Desktop Printer Technology Used to Lay Down Regenerated Skin Cells to Treat Burns in Mice

The same technology that office workers use daily to print documents can be transformed into a "bioprinter" that uses cells instead of ink

Fear Review: Critique of Forensic Psychopathy Scale Delayed 3 Years by Threat of Lawsuit

Does an academic's use of legal threats to stop a critical paper from being published subvert the peer review process, which is fundamental to modern scientific research?

Mass Transits: Kepler Mission Releases Data on Hundreds of Possible Exoplanets

NASA's planet hunter has identified more than 700 candidate extrasolar worlds that have yet to be confirmed, including some that may be Earth-size

Totaled Recall: Is an Alzheimer's Memory Screening Test Worth It?

The jury is out on the balance of benefit and harm from testing for dementia that results from an incurable disease

Simian Solicitude: Like Humans, Chimpanzees Console Victims of Aggression

Humans are not the only species capable of empathy. Our closest relatives also show compassion and, like us, are more likely to offer comfort to kin and those socially close to them

Many Solar System Comets May Have Been Swiped from Other Stars

The cloud of comets in the outer solar system could include a significant contribution from the sun's former stellar neighbors