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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A major earthquake of 7.4 magnitude struck in the Pacific Ocean more than 1,000 miles west of Anchorage on Thursday, prompting a brief tsunami warning for part of the remote Aleutian Islands chain. No damage or injuries were reported. The warning, which extended for roughly 800 miles -- from Unimak Pass, northeast of Dutch Harbor, westward to Amchitka Pass, west of Adak Island -- was canceled after a little more than an hour

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine The potential cost of NASA's flagship mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa was recently put at $4.7 billion. [More]

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine The potential cost of NASA's flagship mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa was recently put at $4.7 billion. [More]

The latest to announce its demise is Google Powermeter . All the efforts to combine social networking with energy conservation seem to be pulling the plug.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released on Thursday the locations in five states where it will study the safety of a natural gas drilling technique some blame for polluting water.

The thick, waterproof fur that once made the platypus ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus ) a valuable target for trappers may soon present another danger for the unique mammal: Australia could soon end up being too hot for the species to survive. [More]

Play an important role in gathering data about birds and their habitat, using mobile technology as a scientific tool [More]

Whatever you may feel about independent "hactivist" groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec , they are good at what they do. In the past few weeks members of these two groups have claimed responsibility for a number of data theft incidents, including the recent theft of more than 1 million user names and passwords from the Sony pictures web site . They then post these stolen names and passwords on message boards and

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Birds and sea turtles can migrate thousands of miles, by reading the Earth’s magnetic cues. But we too might have magnetic sensing abilities--in our eyes. So says a study in the journal Nature Communications

The TerraPower "wave reactor" concept is backed by Microsoft's Bill Gates, is endorsed by Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman Jr. and has gotten a receptive ear from President Obama's Energy Department. But it's headed overseas for its next crucial step, if ongoing negotiations with a foreign sponsor are successfully completed, says Roger Reynolds, TerraPower's technical adviser

Editor's Note: MSU China Paleontology Expedition is a project led by Frankie D.

Europeans ate their way through the island nation of Mauritius, most famously eliminating the dodo bird by 1700.

Last year I met my four-month-old nephew, Landon, for the first time.