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Twenty-two individuals will soon be a half-million dollars richer, having won this year’s so-called genius grants. [More]

When video gamers armed with the world's most powerful supercomputers take on science and its most vexing riddles, who wins?

Undersea vents are providing researchers with a possible view of the future as seawater becomes more acidic due to carbon dioxide emissions. [More]

Six Italian scientists and one government official are set to go to trial today in Italy (Sept. 20) on charges of manslaughter for not warning the public aggressively enough of an impending earthquake that killed more than 300 people in 2009. While such a trial is unlikely on U.S.

Help researchers study the impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster by taking and submitting radiation readings [More]

Asbestos increases the risk for certain cancers. The fibers are thought to do so by skewering cells, setting off chemical reactions that lead to inflammation, DNA damage and cell death.

categorical decisions. Jurors look at testimony and judge whether a defendant is guilty or not guilty. Police officers take aim at suspects and have to determine whether they see a gun in the suspect’s hand, or something that just resembles a gun.

By Lucas Laursen of Nature magazine Glaciologists and climatologists are racing to correct an error in the latest edition of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, which they say overstates the extent of ice loss in Greenland over the past 12 years. The 13th edition of the atlas was released on 15 September.

By Lucas Laursen of Nature magazine Glaciologists and climatologists are racing to correct an error in the latest edition of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, which they say overstates the extent of ice loss in Greenland over the past 12 years. The 13th edition of the atlas was released on 15 September. [More]

By David Cyranoski of Nature magazine There's a showdown brewing in the state of Texas -- and it could get ugly. [More]

By David Cyranoski of Nature magazine There's a showdown brewing in the state of Texas -- and it could get ugly.

Pity our neighbors to the north.

By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Solutions such as fog catchers, seawater greenhouses and fuel cells powered by microscopic bacteria are on show to help secure water supply and food production as rising population and climate change put the world's natural resources under strain. [More]

Although astronomers only slowly came to realize dark matter’s importance in the universe, for me personally it happened in an instant. In my first project as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978, I measured the rotational velocities of star-forming giant molecular clouds in the outer part of the disk of our Milky Way galaxy.

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