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The creator of the popular online comic strip " Piled Higher and Deeper " has turned it into a feature film.

On a summer evening in June 2005, Susan Wallace-Babb went out into a neighbor's field near her ranch in Western Colorado to close an irrigation ditch. She parked down the rutted double-track, stepped out of her truck into the low-slung sun, took a deep breath and collapsed, unconscious. A natural gas well and a pair of fuel storage tanks sat less than a half-mile away.

If there's one movie that should top the queue for Netflix CEO Reed Hastings today, it's

In landlocked East Lansing, Michigan, you're unlikely to swim with dolphins. [More]

Rambunctious one-year-old Teco, a third-generation captive-born bonobo at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, has an ape’s usual fondness for games and grapes. [More]

Will we recognize our robot overlords when we meet them? “Say Cheese!” The burst of light to my right made me pause: my photo had just been taken

A new Knight Foundation study finds that using Facebook and Tumblr leads teens to a greater appreciation of the First Amendment--but their teachers think unbridled free speech for teens online isn't such a good thing. Teens hate censorship--at least if they're using social media

For many years I lived in fear of my allergies. [More]

By Zoe Cormier of Nature magazine Thanks to fluorescent labels that help them to spot cancerous tissue, surgeons have removed ovarian tumor cells that might otherwise have been left behind.

(Reuters) - The mystery of Earth's missing heat may have been solved: it could lurk deep in oceans, temporarily masking the climate-warming effects of greenhouse gas emissions, researchers reported on Sunday.

The first car made mostly in China is now for sale in the U.S. and it's no Yugo.

Where are the images and ideas from dreams located in the brain, and is there any way to capture them? --Derek Meier, Chicago [More]

Autonomous mini-sailboat drones ply the ocean and mop up oil spills, gather information on marine life in crisis and clean up floating plastic trash. [More]

Scientists from more than 70 countries gathered at the 2011 Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau this summer to discuss the world’s greatest health challenges and how to tackle them. The young researchers followed in these films are working on malaria, cancer, viruses and more. They are also learning how to be scientists; how to write grant applications, how to collaborate with other research groups, and how to find the right career path

Jellyfishes rely on drifting to eat.