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Just because you're on the road a lot doesn't mean you have to leave your multimedia world at home. Hitachi's compact LifeStudio MobilePlus combines a portable 500GB hard drive with an auto-syncing 4GB USB 2.0 key that magnetically attaches to a sleek docking station, making the whole thing packable and easy to use. The LifeStudio software automatically organizes documents, photos, movies, music and other files into a 3- D interface for easy access and upload to Facebook and online photo-sharing sites

Maybe antimatter is finally ready for its close-up. A team of physicists has succeeded in producing rudimentary atoms of antimatter and holding on to them for several minutes, an advance that holds hope for detailed comparisons of how ordinary atoms of matter compare with their exotic antimatter counterparts. [More]

Our first day in Palau made me realize that, unlike the United States where the environment is often an afterthought, this is a place where people take pride in their connection to the natural world and work hard to protect it. [More]

[Audio clip from The Graduate: One word, plastics.]

The black-and-blue rule of baseball--if your pitcher beans our batter, our pitcher will bean yours--it turns out, is highly dependent on the weather. [More]

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Rising forest density in many countries is helping to offset climate change caused by deforestation from the Amazon basin to Indonesia, a study showed on Sunday. [More]

As computers become progressively faster and more powerful, they’ve gained the impressive capacity to simulate increasingly realistic environments.

Dear EarthTalk : What will be the effect of all the flooding along the Mississippi River for organic farmers, given all the pollutants in the water? When they recover, can they still certify their products as organic? --Michael O’Loughlin, Tigard, Ore.

Imagine hanging out with some of the world’s kookiest critters in the jungle’s tallest trees, building a robot that does stand-up comedy, inventing a device that propels you into the air like Batman, or traveling back in a DNA time machine to study ancient animals! Meet the scientists who make it possible.

A new form of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been found in dairy cows and humans in the U.K.

We know that at the heart of at least two ocean basins--the North Pacific and the North Atlantic--tiny plastic fragments the size of confetti or smaller are accumulating on the sea surface by the tens of thousands, the remnants of discarded grocery bags, cups, bottles and other waste. Last year a group of researchers publishing in the journal Science reported a mystery: during a 22-year survey of plastic accumulation in the western North Atlantic, the scientists saw no increase in the amount of plastic, despite a surge in annual global plastic production from about 75 million to 245 million metric tons over the same period. Where was it going

The quadratic equation may have instilled horror in many of us. But for some five to seven percent of the population even basic math--like the concept of the numbers five and seven--causes anxiety. You may never have heard of the disorder called dyscalculia, yet it’s as common as dyslexia, according to research in the journal Science .

There’s a habit that’s had scientists puzzled: the practice of geophagy--eating dirt.

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency has struck back against Google following the Internet giant's claims earlier this week that recent hacker attempts to steal Gmail user passwords appeared to have originated from China.

Missed the illuminating talk on dark energy? Uncertain about certainty