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By Jo Marchant of Nature magazine A Roman ship found with a lead pipe piercing its hull has mystified archaeologists. [More]

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine St-Paul-lez-Durance, France The world's largest fusion experiment is finally beginning to take shape. [More]

More than 75 percent of the planet's flowering plants depend on pollinators (mostly insects) in order to reproduce.

Ice-road truckers may become an endangered species as climate change intensifies in the Arctic, concludes a new study that examines how rising temperatures will alter the transportation mix in the far north. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, say that by midcentury, warming will significantly limit the areas suitable for constructing temporary roads each winter. The season for using such roads, key transport routes for cargo, will also shorten.

What's nudging comets our way?

By David Brough LONDON (Reuters) - Food prices could double in the next 20 years and demand will soar as the world struggles to raise output via a failing system, international charity Oxfam said Tuesday, warning of worsening global hunger. [More]

To predict the stock market, there’s no need to look into a crystal ball. [More]

Halfway into a recent performance at New York City's Bohemian National Hall violinist Mari Kimura had already performed "Preludio" from Bach's Partita No. 3 in E Major followed by several pieces in which she deftly demonstrated her innovative "subharmonics" techniques for extending the octave range of her instrument. Then things got really interesting.

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming will likely open up coastal areas in the Arctic to development but close vast regions of the northern interior to forestry and mining by mid-century as ice and frozen soil under temporary winter roads melt, researchers said. [More]

By Muriel Boselli PARIS (Reuters) - Global emissions of carbon dioxide hit their highest level ever in 2010, with the growth driven mainly by booming coal-reliant emerging economies, the International Energy Agency's Chief Economist said on Monday. [More]

Now and then, scientists tout an idea so crushingly obvious that I assume I'm missing something. Case in point: the anthropic principle, which proclaims that reality has to be as we observe it to be because otherwise we wouldn't be here to observe it. I've always been baffled as to why smart people, like Stephen Hawking , take this tautology seriously

Each morning, a newspaper is slipped underneath our door. This morning, the front page of the Pacific Daily News read "Fishermen oppose reef bill." Right: Caitlin holds up the May 25, 2011, edition of the Pacific Daily News with the headline “Fishermen oppose reef bill” on the front-page center.

This past winter, about 30 percent of all the managed honeybees in the US died . That's according to the U.S.

Some bats with poor eyesight depend on echolocation to navigate. They emit squeaks and gauge their environment based on the echo returned

Late Wednesday night I bumped into an old friend on the subway. It was past 11:00, and she, an actress, was returning from a party at the home of her movement teacher at which each attendee was asked to bring a short performance piece as a gift for the host. I, a science writer, was making my way home from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) conference in Boston.