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Steve Jobs was a rare case, right down to his death. Announced Wednesday, Jobs's death from "complications of pancreatic cancer" only hints at the vast complexity of the disease to which he succumbed at the age of 56.

NANTES, France--Knock, knock. That's not the start of a joke but the hard-luck history of Uranus. New research suggests that the giant planet may have suffered two massive impacts early in its history, which would account for its extreme, mysterious axial tilt.

Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computers who died this week, had a reputation as a passionate business leader and a modern folk hero. In 1999 one of Jobs's friends said, "He is single-minded, almost manic, in his pursuit of excellence." That's certainly a character trait we scientists can admire

Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn grew up in Hobart on the Australian island of Tasmania.

The AccuWeather.com Long-Range Forecasting Team is predicting another brutally cold and snowy winter for a large part of the country, thanks in large part to La Ni

GPS is utterly useless for finding your wife or kids (or even locating yourself) at the mall. What we need is an indoor equivalent of GPS

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For decades scholars and public health officials have known that people with greater income or formal education tend to live longer and enjoy better health than their counterparts who have less money or schooling. The trend holds true wherever researchers look--in poor countries or rich ones, in Europe, Asia or the Americas--but two notable exceptions stand out.

The Apple co-founder passed away October 5, but our digital lives leaped ahead dramatically as a result of his leadership [More]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to ease a new air pollution rule that would require power plants in 27 states to slash emissions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The EPA plans to propose as early as this week allowing certain states and companies to emit more pollutants than it previously permitted, the report said.

NANTES, France--The shape of Comet Hartley 2 has inspired a number of colorful descriptors--it's been called a pickle, a peanut, a dog bone and a bowling pin. [More]

When it comes to climate change denial, not all human beings are created equal. As a recent study shows, conservative white males are less likely to believe in climate change

Listen to the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to Daniel Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. [More]