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Graduate student Dustin Mix works with community members in L og ne to develop plans for engineered housing. (credit: A.

Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick never takes his wedding ring off, even when he's out on the field. What do you think?

Ada Lovelace Day allows us an opportunity to highlight the work of women in science.

Ada Lovelace Day allows us an opportunity to highlight the work of women in science.

Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for overturning a fundamental assumption in their field by showing that the expansion of the universe is constantly accelerating.

Everyone in an earthquake-prone area wants to know when the next big one might come, but temblors are not well understood, and there is a plethora of methods that forecast quake risk. So which one works best? A test of seven different techniques that one day could reveal when quakes will occur could help narrow the field.

Originally posted at Field of Science on April 21, 2011, where it was a Research Blogging Editor’s Selection. [More]

The Gates Foundation is bringing stronger, hardier versions of staple crops to the developing world. Do the good motives outweigh the issues with GM food

From Nature magazine. When it was first used in the 1990s to treat an immune deficiency, gene therapy -- treating diseases by correcting a patient's faulty genes -- was touted as a breakthrough that was likely to cure scores of hereditary diseases. But when 18-year-old Jessie Gelsinger died in 1999 after having a corrected gene injected to treat his liver disease, the field became wary, and researchers found it difficult to fix the problems associated with the technique

At last, the field of genomics has something to offer Cheech and Chong. DNA sequencing hit a new high last night with the midnight release of the Cannabis sativa genome.

Stanford University has opened up to the public an introductory artificial intelligence class, taught by two luminaries in the field. [More]

Getting to work can be inhumanly stressful, boring, or logistically tricky--or, sometimes, all three. Here are four ways to arrive at work calmer, smarter, and without a lame excuse for being late. Technology can’t clear the idiots off the road on your drive to work, or improve the housing market so much that you’re no longer riding the train or bus

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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Despite the grounding of NASA's storied space shuttle fleet, American spaceships are expected to make three trips to the International Space Station in the coming months

What is the hottest problem in fundamental physics today? Physics aficionados most probably would answer: quantum gravity