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* Hurricane to land at N. Carolina Saturday, rake up coast * Tens of thousands of coastal dwellers start to evacuate [More]

X-rays can help reveal anything from bombs hidden in luggage to tumors in breasts, but some potentially vital clues might be too faint to capture with conventional methods. Now a new x-ray technique adapted from atom smashers could resolve more key details. Conventional x-ray imaging works much like traditional photography, relying on the light--in this case, x-rays--that a target absorbs, transmits and scatters.

Anyone in the eastern portion of the U.S. this week who was forced to evacuate an office, home or school following Tuesday's magnitude 5.8 earthquake soon noticed that cell phone service was spotty or, in many cases, nonexistent.

By Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to halve radiation over two years in places contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, removing soil, plants and trees as well as cleaning roofs of buildings in an area spanning thousands of square kilometers. [More]

By Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to halve radiation over two years in places contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, removing soil, plants and trees as well as cleaning roofs of buildings in an area spanning thousands of square kilometers. [More]

Everyone likes to talk about the weather, and maybe someone could do something about it someday. [More]

By Neil Hartnell NASSAU (Reuters) - The northeast seaboard, including Washington and financial center New York, rushed to prepare on Thursday for a possible mauling from Hurricane Irene that will hit the U.S. coast this weekend. [More]

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Federal authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a polar bear at an Alaska oil field operated by BP, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the oil company said on Thursday

It doesn’t take much imagination to think of ways in which all of the data being recorded into electronic health records (EHRs) could be used study diseases and map trends. [More]

From Nature magazine Vaccines are largely safe, and do not cause autism or diabetes, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) said in a report issued today . This conclusion followed a review of more than 1,000 published research studies. [More]

Apple has been on a decade-long roll starting with the its game-changing MP3 music player--the iPod-- in November 2001 right through its monumental, if brief, climb earlier this month to become the most valuable U.S. [More]

It’s not that the central and northern portions of the east coast of North America never see hurricanes. [More]

Say you need a diamond. You could go down to the jeweler, or you could put some carbon deep underground and let it sit for a couple billion years

Where are all the space-art bloggers?

As science has long demonstrated, eyewitness accounts are frequently riddled with errors.