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TOKYO, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Japan plans to limit the lifeof nuclear reactors to 40 years, allowing extensions only under [More]

The origins of our sexuality is the greatest mystery in human evolution. But could our prime suspect be a case of mistaken identity

The achieved cloaking was just 50 trillionths of a second, in duration, but could be extended to a few nanoseconds

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And a worse student

Ever wondered why mosquitoes eat some people up but leave others relatively unscathed?

Scientists doing their first exploring of deep-sea vents in the Antarctic have uncovered a

First generation iPad home screen My birthday comes a few weeks before the holidays. This year my wife got me an iPad

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A scientific study to understand the impact of climate change and other factors on plant-pollinator interactions, geographic distributions and seasonal abundances [More]

“I don’t like to scare people,” says microbiologist Paul Keim. “But the worst-case scenarios here are just enormous.” [More]

Deep depression that fails to respond to any other form of therapy can be moderated or reversed by stimulation of areas deep inside the brain. Now the first placebo-controlled study of this procedure shows that these responses can be maintained in the long term. [More]

Theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt did not expect to spend last summer travelling across spongy tundra to a remote gold-mining region in north-eastern Russia. But that is where he spent three weeks tracing the origins of the world’s only known natural example of a quasicrystal--an exotic type of structure discovered in 1982 in a synthetic material by Dan Shechtman, a materials scientist at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa who netted the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the finding.

The contenders for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election may appear to be a fairly uniform group of middle-aged white conservatives, but when it comes to issues of science, technology and overall geek cred, none of these candidates is cut from the same cloth

A pair of NASA spacecraft are ringing in the new year in grand style, with both now successfully circling the moon after journeying through space for more than three months. [More]

Welcome to 2012--a leap year. The additional day in a leap year keeps the calendar in sync with the seasons.