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Diamonds from deep underground now reveal that the activities of life can have effects far beneath Earth's surface, researchers find. All life on Earth is based on carbon

Mo Costandi of Nature magazine Research showing that action video games have a beneficial effect on cognitive function is seriously flawed, according to a review published this week in Frontiers in Psychology .

Over the past four years, John Matthews has been traveling the world to better understand freshwater and climate change issues. He found that poor planning is creating one of the biggest water-related threats.

Dear EarthTalk: Pharmaceuticals were in the news again recently, how they are polluting water and raising a host of health issues because we dispose of them both unused and used through bodily waste elimination. What can be done?

On the razor edge between reality and fiction, there is a realm in which worlds we have never seen could, indeed might, exist. [More]

When Facebook pulled out of the deals space, some people started predicting the end of the industry as a whole.

“Stand up straight! And do something about that hair!” Annoying? Sure.

This month’s issue of Scientific American Magazine is a special edition about Cities:

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By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine After decades of dashed hopes, AIDS vaccine developers are allowing themselves some cautious optimism. [More]

I always knew we humans have a rather tenuous grip on the concept of time, but I never realized quite how tenuous it was until a couple of weeks ago, when I attended a conference on the nature of time organized by the Foundational Questions Institute.

The malaria parasite is one of the most widely studied disease-causing organisms, yet there is still no effective vaccine available to prevent the deadly illness.

More than 20 Nobel laureates and about 550 young researchers from 77 countries met at Germany's Lindau Island on Lake Constance from June 26 to July 1 to discuss the future of science and innovative thinking [More]

Young researchers Jan Gralton and Sven-Eric Schelhorn are fascinated by the minute world of viruses. They have plenty of questions for Harald zur Hausen who won a Nobel Prize for proving that human papillomaviruses (HPV) can cause cervical cancer