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Here's one advantage to armadillos' steady northward march across the Southeast United States: They're awfully handy to have as bait if, say, you're a wildlife biologist looking to trap an alligator that has inexplicably settled into your local pond in north Georgia. [More]

Computers now control even the largest pieces of industrial machinery, making critical infrastructure vulnerable to electronic attack.

Last week I recommended 20 great science books , in authorial alphabetical order from A to J, picked from my personal library.

Buying a house or car? Perhaps you should try making the deal via e-mail.

The center of the Earth is a roiling ball of heat, roughly 6,000 degrees Celsius as near as we can tell without a sci-fi tunneling effort. The closest humanity has come to that molten core is some 12 kilometers beneath the continental crust in Russia, which isn't even halfway through said crust and akin to drilling into an apple without piercing the skin

Happy father’s day! First off, to every father out there (biological or not), this is the time where we stand up and say thank you. We may not always show it, but we love you and appreciate everything you have done for us thus far. [More]

How much light the sun emits affects the Earth's weather and climate.

Editor's Note: Marine biologist William Gilly embarked on new expedition this month to study jumbo squid in the Gulf of California on the National Science Foundation-funded research vessel New Horizon . This is his second blog post about the trip. [More]

Does junior really have his father's nose? [More]

The convergence of art and science gets a new treatment in an exhibition opening next week at the American Museum of Natural History. " Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies " features more than 20 sets of large-format and visually engaging images that showcase the wide range of research being conducted at the museum, as well as how various optical tools are used in scientific research. A preview: Tibetan deity wood figure [More]

How many times has it happened to you: you’re sitting around watching a rerun of Friends and you think: Man, if only I could catch a whiff of that hazelnut mocchaccino they’re all pretending to drink.

This season's tornado outbreak in the U.S.

Editor's Note: Marine biologist William Gilly embarked on new expedition this month to study jumbo squid in the Gulf of California on the National Science Foundation-funded research vessel New Horizon.

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For most of human history, we have defined time through the movements of planets and stars.