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Anyone who has ever owned an outdoor cat knows that it tends to disappear for hours, sometimes days, at a time. [More]

The MSU students are back from China, where they explored the culture, looked for fossils, and studied dinosaur eggs in the laboratory. [More]

By Ron Cowen of Nature magazine Newly released observations of the top quark -- the heaviest of all known fundamental particles -- could topple the standard model of particle physics. [More]

Dear EarthTalk : Can earthquake energy be harnessed for power, particularly in places like Japan? Also, how can Japan, so vulnerable to earthquakes, even have nuclear power?

It is Friday, when some bloggers go for lighter fare – like LOLcats! – but others ignore this old blogospheric tradition and post serious stuff instead. [More]

ByGwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine it Parker doesn't just study traumatic brain injury in the lab, he's also seen it at close range while serving in Afghanistan. [More]

WASHINGTON -- It's official: NASA's next Mars rover has a landing site, and it's a giant crater called Gale. NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is slated to launch in late November, and will drop a car-size rover named Curiosity at the Gale crater. [More]

Weekend is coming. [More]

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine For now, physicists are only willing to call them "excess events," but fresh data from two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are hinting at something unusual--and it could be the most sought-after particle in all of physics. Both ATLAS and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiments are seeing an unusual surplus of events in a rough mass range of 130-150 gigaelectronvolts (energy and mass are used interchangeably in particle physics). [More]

Continuing with the tradition from last three years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2011 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January 2011. [More]

Extreme heat is scorching the much of the eastern United States, and it's not expected to let up anytime soon. [More]

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By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Recent satellite images of a remote Alaska volcano along a flight route for major airlines show it may be poised for its first big eruption in 10 years, scientists said. [More]

Three books explore these innate human traits.

By Alison Abbott of Nature magazine The increasingly sophisticated blending of different species to create chimeras is pushing biology into a new ethical dimension. [More]