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By Melissa Gaskill of Nature magazine There is only one official source of data on pollution caused by offshore drilling in U.S. [More]

The diverse wilderness of life inside of our bodies is just starting to gain the attention of scientists.

What if mending a ripped garment, or repairing a leaky storage container, was as easy as shining a light on the damage? [More]

Are your car’s bumpers riddled with scars from encounters with tight parking spaces?

The two hour drive from New Orleans to Venice is like cutting into a slice of apple pie -- it’s as American as it gets. Busy streets and high-rise buildings give way to farms, fields, and wetlands, in the perfect picture of rural, small-town America

COCODRIE, La.--The tendrils of coastline here were some of the first shores to see oil after BP's Macondo well blowout last year.

One year after the blowout at the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent burning and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, what has been learned? [More]

Gold-hungry Peruvian miners are eroding the country's portion of the Amazon rainforest at an alarming rate, according to a new study. Small-scale gold panners in the Andean nation have responded to soaring gold prices by revving up the pace of gold mining, stripping the region of its forests.

As if worrying about the vulnerability of your PC and smart phone to hackers were not enough, could your car be the next target?

There have been many media headlines recently concerning the melting of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, often focused on the opening of the North West Passage and further commercial opportunities in this region. Current predictions are that there will be no summer time sea ice coverage by 2050.

By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Gradually rising sea levels caused by global warming over the past 30 years have contributed to a growing number of disasters along China's coast, state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday.

By Aizhu Chen YUANBA, China (Reuters) - China has spent tens of billions of dollars buying into energy resources from Africa to Latin America to slake the unquenched thirst for fuel from its growing industry and burgeoning cities. [More]

By Joseph Milton of Nature magazine A key feature of human childbirth, long thought to be unique to Homo sapiens --the arrival of the baby facing backwards relative to its mother--has been observed in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees.

By Melissa Gaskill of Nature News In April 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and sank. [More]