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On the razor edge between reality and fiction, there is a realm in which worlds we have never seen could, indeed might, exist. [More]

“Stand up straight! And do something about that hair!” Annoying? Sure.

I always knew we humans have a rather tenuous grip on the concept of time, but I never realized quite how tenuous it was until a couple of weeks ago, when I attended a conference on the nature of time organized by the Foundational Questions Institute.

The malaria parasite is one of the most widely studied disease-causing organisms, yet there is still no effective vaccine available to prevent the deadly illness.

* 83 pct believe planet is warming, up from 75 pct * Republican climate skeptics, record warming cause change * 15 pct Americans say climate their top issue-professor By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - More Americans than last year believe the world is warming and the change is likely influenced by the Republican presidential debates, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Thursday. The percentage of Americans who believe the Earth has been warming rose to 83 percent from 75 percent last year in the poll conducted Sept 8-12

More than 20 Nobel laureates and about 550 young researchers from 77 countries met at Germany's Lindau Island on Lake Constance from June 26 to July 1 to discuss the future of science and innovative thinking [More]

Young researchers Jan Gralton and Sven-Eric Schelhorn are fascinated by the minute world of viruses. They have plenty of questions for Harald zur Hausen who won a Nobel Prize for proving that human papillomaviruses (HPV) can cause cervical cancer

The hundreds of distant worlds, some large and some small, that are known to dot the galaxy provide plenty of intrigue for the scientists who hunt them. But the catalogued planetary population has just gotten a lot larger and more diverse, thanks to word this week of a newly identified planet orbiting two suns, more than a dozen newfound "super-Earths," and strong indications that the Milky Way Galaxy is home to an almost unfathomable number of planets awaiting discovery. [More]

There’s a reason that so many sci-fi thrillers are set in space. [More]

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This year is slated to be one of the most charred on record, as wildfires have burned more than 7.5 million U.S. acres to date.

In the wake of massive flooding from Hurricane Irene, consumers may be hit with an unsuspected trick. Several flood-damaged automobiles will be sold without accurate damage reports. This is not a new practice, as flood-damaged vehicles are sold every year in various parts of the U.S., according to New Jersey Business

By Brian Switek of Nature magazine A painstaking search through thousands of chunks of amber has unearthed 11 prehistoric feathers.

Construction of Vogtle units 3 and 4 (on right) in August 2011. [More]

NASA’s plans for human spaceflight, the subject of much hand-wringing since the curtains closed on the agency’s space shuttle program in July, took a big step this week when the agency announced plans for a powerful new rocket to take astronauts into deep space. [More]