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First there were glow-in-the-dark fish, then rats, rabbits, insects, even pigs. [More]

More than 50 new alien planets -- including one so-called super-Earth that could potentially support life -- have been discovered by an exoplanet-hunting telescope from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The newfound haul of alien planets includes 16 super-Earths , which are potentially rocky worlds that are more massive than our planet. One in particular - called HD 85512 b - has captured astronomers' attention because it orbits at the edge of its star's habitable zone, suggesting conditions could be ripe to support life

VIENNA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The reactors at Japan's crippledFukushima atomic power plant are now "essentially stable", the [More]

Scores of readers responded to my Galactic Challenge (proposed in Part I of this series), with lots of cool ideas. [More]

Many wooden shipping crates that enter the U.S. contain hungry stowaways: invasive species of insects. Although these pests often dine on trees, they also devour a different resource: money.

* Authorities fighting fire before counting the dead * Petrol spill from nearby fuel depot ignited fire By Richard Lough and James Macharia NAIROBI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - At least 75 bodies have been recovered after petrol that had spilled into an open sewer caught fire and sent a wave of flame through a densely populated slum in the Kenyan capital, police said on Monday. [More]

MALTA--Coming down with the flu--and slowly recovering from it--might seem straight forward enough. [More]

A leading agriculture company is about to put the United States on the map with the world's biggest carbon sequestration projects.

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Germany aims to shorten the time it takes for information on infectious-disease outbreaks to reach federal authorities from up to 18 days to just three, after this year's outbreak of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli killed 53 people. [More]

Look out below! A defunct satellite the size of a school bus is falling back to Earth. NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS , is expected to reenter the atmosphere at the end of September.

Near-death experiences are often thought of as mystical phenomena, but research is now revealing scientific explanations for virtually all of their common features. The details of what happens in near-death experiences are now known widely--a sense of being dead, a feeling that one's "soul" has left the body, a voyage toward a bright light, and a departure to another reality where love and bliss are all-encompassing

Microscopic algae and the nearly invisible animals that eat them do more than just drift along the ocean surface. Plankton , defined by their habitat, not their taxonomy, are the foundation of the marine food chain--without them, marine life would go hungry and food chains would collapse. They also remove carbon dioxide from the sea and provide Earth's atmosphere with oxygen

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MARSEILLE, France, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A furnace exploded at the Marcoule nuclear waste treatment site in southern France on Monday, killing one person, but there was no leak of radioactive material outside the furnace, France's ASN nuclear safety watchdog said. Four other people were injured, one seriously, in the blast at the Centraco site, owned by French power utility EDF and adjacent to the Marcoule nuclear research centre. [More]

Ground Zero officially becomes the National September 11th Memorial today.