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Pluto Might Be the Largest Dwarf Planet, After All For years Pluto has appeared to rank behind its fellow dwarf planet Eris in terms of diameter. New data, however, have cut Eris down to size [More]

“The human genome was sequenced, and in the process of moving that forward the technology that was developed was incredible. And because of their efforts in the human genome, that technology is available to folks like us.” Northern Arizona University’s Paul Keim at the ScienceWriters2011 conference. The ability to compare genomes is a powerful tool for identifying the origins of a natural disease outbreak or bioterrorism

The honorees stood, backs ramrod straight, facing the audience at the White House.

The execution of Col. Muammar Gaddafi earlier this week closes one chapter on Libya’s version of the “Arab Spring” movement.

The Earth's surface is warming, after all, says a team of researchers who sought to investigate claims that flawed data and methods had skewed existing analyses of global temperature trends. The work by the Berkeley Earth Project shows that, on average, global land surface temperatures have risen about 1 degree Celsius since the mid-1950s -- on par with the warming trend described by research groups at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the U.K

The EPA took another step toward tightening oversight of hydraulic fracturing today, announcing it would initiate a process to set national rules for treating wastewater discharged from gas drilling operations. Until now, the agency has largely left it to states to police wastewater discharges. Some have allowed drillers to pump waste through sewage treatment plants that aren't equipped to remove many of the contaminants, leading to pollution in some rivers and to problems at drinking water facilities.

In this world of Photoshop and online scams, it pays to have a hearty dose of skepticism at reports of something strange--including an albino fetal shark with one eye smack in the middle of its nose like a Cyclops. But the Cyclops shark, sliced from the belly of a pregnant mama dusky shark caught by a commercial fisherman in the Gulf of California earlier this summer, is by all reports the real thing. Shark researchers have examined the preserved creature and found that its single eye is made of functional optical tissue, they said last week.

A pioneering research institute that introduced the computer world to the mouse , hypertext and networks is now setting its sights a bit lower.

Someone Else’s Twin: The True Story of Babies Switched at Birth by Nancy L. Segal

TRIAGING TREATMENTS The problems with the U.S. health care system described by Sharon Begley in “ The Best Medicine ” are accurate

To keep you up to date with what’s happening in global health, I will now be posting biweekly round ups of the most significant and interesting news, views and events. As we’re focused on the more creative ways of story telling here at Creatology, I will include a selection of

With one out in the top of the ninth inning of last night’s World Series game 1, Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre stepped to the plate. Down by one run with an elite power hitter at bat, Texas looked for a moment to have a chance of getting back into the game. That chance was squandered when Beltre swung at the first pitch from St.

By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine After generating considerable attention with a preview on Capitol Hill last spring, an independent team of scientists has formally released their analysis of the land surface temperature record.

“We produce nine billion food animals in the United States every year. And most of these animals are fed antibiotics throughout their life

As a young mathematician in the 1950s, Don Newman taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alongside rising star and Nobel-laureate-to-be John Nash. Newman had been struggling to solve a particular math problem: “I was ...