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MALTA-- Contagion , a film released earlier this month, depicts a gruesome outbreak of an exotic and deadly new virus. In the real world, a not-so foreign infection is circulating among animals every day of every year

On a summer evening in June 2005, Susan Wallace-Babb went out into a neighbor's field near her ranch in Western Colorado to close an irrigation ditch. She parked down the rutted double-track, stepped out of her truck into the low-slung sun, took a deep breath and collapsed, unconscious. A natural gas well and a pair of fuel storage tanks sat less than a half-mile away.

In landlocked East Lansing, Michigan, you're unlikely to swim with dolphins. [More]

Will we recognize our robot overlords when we meet them? “Say Cheese!” The burst of light to my right made me pause: my photo had just been taken

In a small basement in the Bronx, the pride of place does not go to a shelf occupied by blue models of deformed skulls. Instead, the focus of the Lehman College 3D Virtual and Solid Visualization Laboratory is a large gray printer. This is no dot-matrix monster

Animal corpses rarely defy the dictate of "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" to become fossils--and even if they do, they don't remain sturdy for long.

Rambunctious one-year-old Teco, a third-generation captive-born bonobo at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, has an ape’s usual fondness for games and grapes. [More]

A new Knight Foundation study finds that using Facebook and Tumblr leads teens to a greater appreciation of the First Amendment--but their teachers think unbridled free speech for teens online isn't such a good thing. Teens hate censorship--at least if they're using social media

For many years I lived in fear of my allergies. [More]

(Reuters) - The mystery of Earth's missing heat may have been solved: it could lurk deep in oceans, temporarily masking the climate-warming effects of greenhouse gas emissions, researchers reported on Sunday.

The first car made mostly in China is now for sale in the U.S. and it's no Yugo.

NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite , with the U.S. space agency now predicting the 6 1/2-ton climate probe will plummet to Earth around Sept.

Autonomous mini-sailboat drones ply the ocean and mop up oil spills, gather information on marine life in crisis and clean up floating plastic trash. [More]

Scientists from more than 70 countries gathered at the 2011 Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau this summer to discuss the world’s greatest health challenges and how to tackle them. The young researchers followed in these films are working on malaria, cancer, viruses and more. They are also learning how to be scientists; how to write grant applications, how to collaborate with other research groups, and how to find the right career path

This morning was a bit rough.