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The European Union on Monday prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners [1] in European airports, parting ways with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which has deployed hundreds of the scanners as a way to screen millions of airline passengers for explosives hidden under clothing.

There's probably no intelligent life in the outer solar system. But it couldn't hurt to check.

By David Cyranoski of Nature magazine The likely demise of Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission has dashed China's hopes for its first Mars orbiter, Yinghuo-1, which was piggybacking on the larger craft (see ` Russia gets the red planet blues '). [More] Presented By: Grainger aids power outage response.

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine It would not be the first psychiatric drug to run aground in a large study after sailing through early trials. [More]

By Christopher Le Coq STRASBOURG (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers on Tuesday called for stronger action to protect Europe's bees, saying that the rapid decline in the bee population could affect the growth of important food crops.

What's the future of Bump? The popular iPhone and Android app , which enables users to share media simply by "bumping" smartphones together, recently hit 63 million downloads. It's likely one of the few social networks that's actually social, requiring physical interaction to work in most cases, with users sharing everything from contacts to apps to music to pictures (close to 2 million photos are bumped over the network per day)

Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists.

Microbes will be the (human) food- and fuel-makers of the future, if J.

Think of the weirdest creatures you’ve even seen in a sci-fi film.

Most Americans who worry about cyberwarfare are concerned that it will be directed against the United States.

A Russian rocket successfully lifted off from snowy Central Asia tonight (Nov. 13), carrying a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station.

With the return of the brilliant planet Venus to our evening sky, I'm reminded of an amusing anecdote related by a good friend of mine, George Lovi, a well-known astronomy lecturer and author who passed away in 1993. One night, while running a public night at the Brooklyn College Observatory in New York, the telescope was pointed right at Venus, which was displaying a delicate crescent shape at the time. Yet, one student gazing through the telescope eyepiece stubbornly insisted that he was really looking at the moon.

Some of the warmest early November weather on record has plants and animals behaving oddly in the UK. [More]

LONDON--It could be the last word in concrete solutions to carbon emissions: a paving slab that generates electricity with every footstep taken on it, providing clean power to both cities and remote areas not connected to a national grid. Best of all, it requires mainly used tires and concrete

A federal energy panel issued a blunt warning to shale gas drillers and their regulators today, saying they need to step up efforts to protect public health and the environment or risk a backlash that stifles further development. 201CConcerted and sustained action is needed to avoid excessive environmental impacts of shale gas production and the consequent risk of public opposition to its continuation and expansion,201D said members of the Energy Department2019s Shale Gas Subcommittee in a draft report released today