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By Christine Stebbins CHICAGO (Reuters) - It can't happen here, can it? [More]

From Nature magazine Fatu, a female northern white rhinoceros who lives in a Kenyan conservation park, is one of just seven of her kind left in the world. But millions of her stem cells, stored in a freezer in California, might one day help boost her population's ranks.

From Nature magazine Francis Collins, director of the U.S.

By Pascal Fletcher MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Katia may power up to a major Category 3 storm on Monday, but is expected to veer away from the East Coast later this week, avoiding a direct hit on a seaboard already battered by earlier Hurricane Irene. [More]

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Meditation can relieve pain, and it does so by activating multiple brain areas, according to an April study in the Journal of Neuroscience . [More]

Most people now know of the Great Garbage Patch, the plastic soup swirling in the deep Pacific. [More]

Most people now know of the Great Garbage Patch, the plastic soup swirling in the deep Pacific.

Desperate people have tried everything from firing cannons into the sky to lacing clouds with silver iodide .

Nature, famously, abhors a vacuum. But some cooks have learned to feel differently. Step through the swinging doors at the back of a top restaurant like Alinea in Chicago, and you may find vacuum pumps being used to reduce cooking juices into concentrated sauces, to distill essential oils from fruits and vegetables, to dehydrate chips or to brew coffee

By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Slow-moving Tropical Storm Lee brought torrential rains to the Louisiana coast on Saturday as the heart of the storm neared New Orleans, where flood defenses were expected to be put to the test. The storm was expected to bring up to 20 inches (51 cm) of rain to southeast Louisiana over the next few days, including to New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the U.S. [More]

James Locke, a flight surgeon at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, has made dozens of people sick in the name of science. When he puts subjects in a spinning chair designed to induce motion sickness, roughly 70 percent of them succumb--and at nearly the exact same point on each ride. Locke has used this research and his work with shuttle astronauts to determine which medications and doses best prevent the nausea and vomiting associated with motion sickness

At a ballgame, you have a hot dog. And at a movie you have popcorn. And you may keep working on that popcorn long after you realize that this batch really isn’t so [More]

In conjunction with Scientific American ’s special September 2011 issue on cities, we present an archival look back at the documented growth of urban environments. [More]

By Eric Hand and Nature magazine Venus would seem to be a tempting destination for planetary probes: conveniently close, and an extreme laboratory for atmospheric processes familiar on Earth. So why won't NASA send a mission there