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By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell's long-stymied Arctic drilling program inched ahead on Thursday, as the U.S.

By Zeeya Merali of Nature magazine A one-way system for light rays could allow optical computer chips to overtake their standard electronic counterparts. [More]

The carbon molecule known as a buckyball, a member of the fullerene family, can act as a cage for a variety of other chemicals. And now researchers have used one to trap a single molecule of water. The work appears in the journal Science

By Manuel Rueda JUNO BEACH, Fla (Reuters) - A plucky sea turtle has been released back into the wild off Florida's coast after months of intensive medical care to reverse damage caused by the propellers of a wayward motorboat. [More]

According to a new Harvard University survey that was partially funded by the State Department, 7% of Arab bloggers have been arrested or detained over the past year while 30% have been threatened. Seven percent of Middle Eastern bloggers were arrested and detained in the past year--and nearly 30% were personally threatened, according to a new Harvard University survey

Citizen scientists help the Save the Redwoods League by recording observations of some of the world's largest trees [More]

By Elie Gardner of Nature magazine The Brazilian government has announced a plan to invest 3.16 billion real (R$; US$2.02 billion) in 75,000 science and technology scholarships by the end of 2014.

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drought worsened in the Midwest during the last week as record-high temperatures stressed the developing corn and soybean crops, while cotton and pastures eroded amid a historic drought in the southern Plains.

Second in a three-part series . SUMMIT STATION, Greenland -- At first glance, this research station on the highest point of Greenland's vast ice sheet doesn't look like much. [More]

By Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will replace three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy, the minister overseeing energy policy said on Thursday, five months after the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years erupted at Fukushima. [More]

Four years ago this week, the Minneapolis I-35W bridge collapse killed 13 people and injured 145. More recently, more than one in four U.S. bridges were found to be either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, according to a 2009 study by the U.S

Walking down a residential street in the evening, you might find yourself glancing through the brightly lit windows of the houses you pass. As you peek inside, you take stock of the occupants’ selections: the mahogany chaise lounge with the curved armrests in one house, the sleek leather couches and minimalist paintings in another

On a sweltering August evening in 2009 Pat Elliott noticed that her feet seemed swollen. Because she had been standing for hours while teaching a workshop in Phoenix, she was not surprised

To illustrate a social trend that amounted to a spectacular crime drop in the Big Apple throughout the 1990s and 2000s--as described by Franklin E.

If you’ve ever had to slam on the brakes to prevent an accident, you know that the time it takes to get your foot to that pedal can seem like an eternity. Now, German researchers aim to cut that reaction time by getting drivers’ brain waves to help stop the car.