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A version of this story was co-published with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In the last 150 years, prospectors and energy companies have drilled as many as 12 million holes across the United States in search of oil and gas. Many of those holes were plugged after they dried up

Smaller fleas: What appears as a mere speck to the human eye has plenty of character when observed under a microscope. [More]

One of the top worries for parents of kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the long-term consequences of this condition. "Families want to know, 'So what does this mean?'" says Alice Charach , head of the neuropsychiatry team at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. [More]

By John Ruwitch HANOI (Reuters) - Experts in Hanoi captured a legendary giant turtle for medical treatment on Sunday, a milestone in a case that has grabbed national attention and cast a spotlight on environmental degradation in Vietnam. [More]

Recently, while I was getting drinks at a pub with about a dozen or so other biologists, I was involved in a very animated discussion about circumcision -- because that's what biologists argue about when they're drinking, apparently. [More]

Rapid urban growth and climate change will leave more than 1 billion urban dwellers with a water shortage by 2050, according to a study released last week.

If printers have the power to manufacture organs, why not brains? Or people? In "Too Hard For Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated.

NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) - The National TransportationSafety Board will conduct a review of the safety system [More]

Humanity does things with lasting impact: we can dam a river or make a plateau from a mountaintop.

The town of New Ulm, Minn., some 90 miles outside of Minneapolis, is small. With a population of about 15,000, the self-proclaimed polka capital of the U.S

[Audio from a video of Tourette sufferer Jaylen Arnold.] Tourette syndrome . You might think that someone who exhibits the physical and verbal tics of Tourette has less control of hismind than do non-Tourette people. [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Neutrinos have long perplexed physicists with their uncanny ability to evade detection, with as many as two-thirds of the ghostly particles apparently going missing en route from the Sun to Earth. [More]

Astronomers are probably just a few years from the first-ever finding of an Earth twin outside our solar system, that is, a planet roughly the size of Earth orbiting at a similarly temperate distance from a sun-like star.

Some 1,293 scientists sent a letter ( pdf ) this week to each and every U.S.

This video is no April's fool joke: Earth really is shaped like a potato. However, the shape that you see here is, um, slightly exaggerated to highlight its irregularities.