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Time’s seemingly inexorable march has always provoked interest in, and speculation about, the far future of the cosmos. The usual picture is grim. Five billion years from now the sun will puff itself into a red giant star and swallow the inner solar system before slowly fading to black

“Game over” for climate change . So opines NASA climatologist Jim Hansen when it comes to the development of the Canadian tar sands.

“Happy hour” is not when you might expect it to be, according to a new analysis of about half a billion Twitter messages from around the globe. On average, people are chipper when they wake up and become grouchy as the day wears on.

QUITO, ECUADOR--Long before the Spanish conquered the Incas in 1533, and centuries before the Incas inhabited this area, the present-day site of Quito International Airport was a marshy lake surrounded by Indian settlements--the Quitus on one shore and the Ipias on the other. Between A.D.

VANCOUVER Resistance to hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. has risen steadily in recent months.

Online dating might give you something, but it’s probably not a soulmate. [More]

The experience of indulging in your favorite foods involves not only tasting flavors but also feeling the textures sweep across your tongue. [More]

Science fiction often envisions worlds populated by humanoid robots. In reality, insects, reptiles and nonhuman animals often serve as a more practical template for automatons

The early signs of autism are visible in the brains of 6-month-old infants, a new study finds, suggesting that future treatments could be given at this time, to lessen the impact of the disorder on children. [More]

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will carry out a comprehensive assessment of development pressure on the Great Barrier Reef to help preserve the world's largest coral reef system, ministers said Saturday. The assessment will take into account how development along Australia's northeast coast is affecting the reef, Environment Minister Tony Burke said in a joint statement with the Queensland state government

If you ever wondered how your body handled all those packaged ramen noodles you ate during college, this video s for you. Stefani Bardin , a TEDxManhattan fellow, wants to learn how digestion differs between food chock full of preservatives and food that can actually go bad in a day. To create this video, she and her collaborator swallowed a camera pill along with their meals (which included Gatorade and Gummi bears)

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V ANCOUVER Last fall, the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois shut down for good . The long-running accelerator had been eclipsed by the vastly more powerful Large Hadron Collider outside of Geneva, Switzerland, which since 2010 has been generating data at an impressive rate. The move appeared to quash any hopes that Fermilab had of discovering the Higgs boson , the last great known unknown of modern particle physics.

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Difficulties in hiring and retaining women scientists and engineers are worrying universities. [More]

By Katherine Rowland of Nature magazine In the Congo Basin, Bayaka pygmies patrol their forests with handheld tracking devices. [More]