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Kathy Wendolkowski used to make candy in her spare time.

For a slick, supple mouthfeel, there’s nothing like a suspension of fine droplets of oil in water (or vice versa)--what scientists call an emulsion. Cream, butter and chocolate are emulsions, as are gravy, vinaigrette and cheese

[ Editors' note: The following is an excerpt from theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss's new book, A Universe from Nothing : Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Free Press, 2012). ] [More]

Land and See: Infrared and 3-D vision systems combine to help pilots avoid crash landings.

On his 27th birthday, David Hillebrandt and his wife Sally began to climb Mount Kenya, the second-highest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro.

GENEVA (Reuters) - La Nina, a weather phenomenon usually linked to heavy rains and flooding in Asia-Pacific and South America and drought in Africa, seems to have reached its peak and is expected to fade between March and May, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday. A weak to moderate La Nina pattern has cooled the tropical Pacific since around October, a considerably weaker event than in 2010-11, the United Nations agency said in a statement. [More]

Facebook's pages are packed with information--your news feed, info about who's online and advertisements that use personal information to deliver highly targeted sales pitches. Members accept these ads on a PC screen, but what about on smaller mobile devices? [More]

Is your cell phone ringtone-ing off the vestigial hook?

One of the standout anecdotes in Carl Zimmer’s most excellent compilation, Science Ink (a.k.a. My Favorite Science Book of 2011 And Possibly Ever) occurs in the first few pages: “A former student [physics major] got a tattoo of a cartoon atom on the back of one of his legs

Image courtesy of iStockphoto/Cabezonication Booze is behind an estimated 2.1 million car accidents each year in the U.S. which cause almost 11,000 traffic fatalities annually . But many drug users have claimed that a few puffs of pot before getting behind the wheel are perfectly harmless.

Years of shifting and smoothing Georgia red clay paid off today, as the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted to allow construction of two new nuclear reactors

Yesterday I asked: what is the best pop science song of all time? Here’s where we stand: on the shoulder of giants (with apologies to Sir Isaac). One of those giants is Ryan Reid, our digital art guru, who not long ago did a wonderful post on 10 songs inspired by science .

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A nearly 13-year-old skin cancer drug rapidly alleviates molecular signs of Alzheimer's diseas e and improves brain function, according to the results of a new mouse study being hailed as extremely promising.

In the race to catch drug cheats, sports officials are turning to more sophisticated tests. Since cheaters are rarely caught red-handed, scientists devised a plan to catch them with the packaging inside their bodies.