China is rushing to build dams along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in part to protect the Three Gorges Dam, but can such hydropower development be done better?
One of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry describes the efforts that went into piercing the ribosome's secrets
A recent study finds that economic expansion could be worse for your health than a downturn, revealing a possible upside to today's recession
Harvest gems from the wild, then prepare them in the kitchen
Uncle Sam looks to eliminate the biggest hurdle to expanding renewable energy--the need for suitable sites to place commercial-scale wind and solar farms--by reusing hundreds of old mines, landfills and industrial sites...
Putting the very small on the big stage, the 35th annual Nikon Small World Competition awards top images
The first commercial test of light-wave telephone service is under way in Chicago. The signals are dispatched over glass fibers in pulses generated by tiny solid-state light sources
Melting sacred glaciers and other fundamental changes confront the Andes's Quechua-speaking farmers
An unusual enzyme called telomerase acts on parts of chromosomes known as telomeres. The enzyme has recently been found in many human tumors and is being eyed as a new target for cancer therapy...
Solving climate change, the Sixth Great Extinction and population growth... at the same time
Nick Brandt shares the work and motivation behind the camera in his photographs of wildlife and landscape in A Shadow Falls , the second offering in his trilogy on the vanishing East African wild...
The FCC is considering a request to allocate spectrum bandwidth for medical body area networks that wirelessly monitor one's health
Researchers propose a novel approach to producing biofuel using diatoms
University of Minnesota grad students ask the tough questions as they investigate cases of food poisoning and other food-borne illnesses
The "fiasco" of 1976, which saw the launch of a national vaccination program for an epidemic that never emerged, may be paying off today
