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It's easy to knock electric vehicles (EVs) : It takes too long to recharge the batteries and there are too few places to do it. And besides, who will pay for all the new recharging stations that would be needed if the cars catch on? The International Energy Agency’s most optimistic scenario puts (pdf) plug-in hybrids or EVs at 15 percent of all cars on the road by 2020; other projections predict a mere 3 percent

Back in the 1950s, astronomers discovered a strange population of stars on the lam. Known as OB runaways, these massive stars tear through space at surprisingly high speed--sometimes hundreds of kilometers per second.

By David Fogarty SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Soaring use of man-made gases used in refrigerators, airconditioners and fire extinguishers risks speeding up global warming and industry should adopt alternatives, a U.N. report said on Monday

Today’s is the LAST of the SfN Neuroblogging for this year. It was a great time, with so much awesome science! This one was a little more complicated than the others and needed some more time

Swirls of trashed plastic litter the seven seas. But it's not the enormous plastic patches that pose the biggest pollution problem

Does Twitter's Activity and Facebook's Ticker give you anything you really need to know? Not really. But maybe that's not so bad

The other afternoon I hit a classic mid-afternoon slump. Sleepy and sluggish, I grabbed for a bit of chocolate. But I probably should have had egg whites or maybe a piece of steak

People with diabetes may have to endure multiple, painful finger sticks every day to get blood samples for testing.

Spotting a good dance party seems pretty easy: throbbing music, swaying bodies, flashing lights. [More]

Curiosity. Credit: AMNH/R. Mickens NEW YORK CITY ”Beyond Planet Earth,” the slick new exhibit on space exploration at the American Museum of Natural History, is thoroughly modern.

The standard 35 mm film we're all used to seeing in movie theaters will be replaced worldwide by digital technology in the next few years, and the hit blockbuster film "Avatar" is to blame for the shift, according to a new report. [More]

Within our solar system , an extra giant planet, or possibly two, might once have accompanied Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. [More]

There’s a good chance you’re reading this article during your workday as a distraction from whatever it is you’re supposed to be focusing on at work right now.

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine Bill Murray is a man with secrets.

The multi-billion-dollar cancer drug Avastin is no longer an approved treatment for breast cancer treatment , per a long-anticipated announcement made Friday by the U.S.