Britain will be back on flood alert later this week with a month’s worth of rain expected to fall on Wednesday. The country is currently colder than Siberia in a -6C (21F) Bank Holiday...
FAIRFAX, California (Reuters) – A young research associate killed by a highly virulent strain of meningococcal disease is believed to have contracted the bacteria from the San Francisco lab where he was working on a vaccine against it, public...
(multimedia) (CBS News) Is there a cure for blindness near? Ask the scientists in the U.K. who have restored useful vision in two men who had previously been totally blind. During clinical trials at...
The huge volcanic crater that makes up much of Yellowstone may have seen more so-called super-eruptions than previously thought, a new study says. What’s more, Yellowstone’s super eruptions may be slightly less super...
An atom-smashing experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has detected a new subatomic particle—and it’s a beauty. Known as Xi(b)* (pronounced “csai bee-star”), the new particle is a baryon, a type of matter made up...
Researchers studying Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old body found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, have found red blood cells around his wounds. Blood cells tend to degrade quickly, and earlier scans for blood within...
Talk about the extended family! A single-celled organism in Norway has been called “mankind’s furthest relative.” It is so far removed from the organisms we know that researchers claim it belongs to a new...
(multimedia) The House of Representatives was supposed to vote on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act on Friday. But the vote got bumped to Thursday, and lawmakers passed the bill 248-168. Techdirt reports CISPA...
The workers of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant received a very slimy surprise this week when they discovered hoards of jellyfish-like creatures clinging to the structure, leading to the shutdown of the plant....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Antarctica’s massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than...
