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Spotting a good dance party seems pretty easy: throbbing music, swaying bodies, flashing lights. [More]

Curiosity. Credit: AMNH/R. Mickens NEW YORK CITY ”Beyond Planet Earth,” the slick new exhibit on space exploration at the American Museum of Natural History, is thoroughly modern.

(Published by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon) CRYSTAL CITY, Virginia, Nov 18 - Some developing countries should contribute money to a $100 billion per year climate fund to help poor nations combat climate change, the lead U.S. climate negotiator said on Friday

The standard 35 mm film we're all used to seeing in movie theaters will be replaced worldwide by digital technology in the next few years, and the hit blockbuster film "Avatar" is to blame for the shift, according to a new report. [More]

Within our solar system , an extra giant planet, or possibly two, might once have accompanied Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. [More]

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine Bill Murray is a man with secrets.

The multi-billion-dollar cancer drug Avastin is no longer an approved treatment for breast cancer treatment , per a long-anticipated announcement made Friday by the U.S.

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine A mutation that appeared more than half a million years ago may have helped humans learn the complex muscle movements that are critical to speech and language.

An image of an inventor, captured with his own invention: Daguerreotype of Louis Daguerre by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot (1844) [More]

Climate change is shifting weather extremes, increasing the frequency of drought and heat waves and the intensity of rainstorms -- changes that will require the world's governments to change how they cope with natural disasters, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said today. [More]

The superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ) has provoked fear in doctors and patients alike because it is endowed with genetic characteristics that make it impervious to many antibiotics, and it can be deadly to boot.

* Famine over in three out of six regions * A quarter of a million still face imminent starvation [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Physicists have replicated the finding that the subatomic particles called neutrinos seem to travel faster than light. [More]

Two books and a podcast series explore how we can improve our minds.

You can find a microwave oven in nearly any American kitchen--indeed, it is the one truly modern cooking tool that is commonly at hand--yet these versatile gadgets are woefully underestimated.