
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
Employing everything from love potion to meat-eating ants, scientists try to stem the influx of new invasive species with some "creative" ideas
Could the anesthesia and painkillers used to make operations and recovery bearable also influence the risk that cancer will return?
Sixty teams from around the world are in Hawaii competing in the ninth-annual underwater International ROV Competition
Paleontologists discover evidence that Mesozoic mammals turned to dinosaur bones as dietary supplements.
A new look at a well-observed extrasolar planet reveals winds whipping through its upper atmosphere at 7,000 kilometers per hour
A new generation of oncolytic viruses are entering late-stage clinical trials, repurposing smallpox and herpesvirus to take on tough tumors
Scientists have traced the immune pathway from gut bacteria to the development of arthritis in mice
The first of four planned Pan-STARRS telescopes in Hawaii should boost asteroid detection rates over the next few years
A majority of scientists who dispute global warming lack the climatological expertise to do so
Acid rain is now caused by nitric rather than sulfuric acid--and it comes from more sources than the earlier acidic precipitation did
A massive overflow from a dam in 2002 carved a channel several meters deep into the bedrock in just days
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...
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
The same technology that office workers use daily to print documents can be transformed into a "bioprinter" that uses cells instead of ink
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?
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
The jury is out on the balance of benefit and harm from testing for dementia that results from an incurable disease
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
The cloud of comets in the outer solar system could include a significant contribution from the sun's former stellar neighbors
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