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Ants use 'math' to find fastest routes

Just as light does, ants traveling through different materials follow the fastest path, not the shortest one. A recent study found that when fire ants (Wasmannia auropunctata) crossed different...

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Scientists: Superstorm Sandy jolted United States

Superstorm Sandy didn't just rattle the East Coast, it also jiggled the ground across the country ever so slightly, scientists reported Thursday. Earthquake sensors located as far away as the Pacific...

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Herschel captures a 'cosmic horse'

Europe's Herschel space telescope has imaged one of the most popular subjects in the sky - the Horsehead Nebula - and its environs. The distinctively shaped molecular gas cloud is sited some 1,300...

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White House Science Fair Acknowledges the Importance of Video Games

Young video game designers will be included in the 3rd White House Science Fair to be held on Monday, April 22nd. This is the second time that winners of the STEM Video Game Challenge have been invited...

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Patients’ Genes Seen as Future of Cancer Care

Major academic medical centers in New York and around the country are spending and recruiting heavily in what has become an arms race within the war on cancer. The investments are based on the belief...

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Video: Would you take 1-way trip to Mars?

A Dutch company is now accepting applications for brave men and women who would like to go to Mars.read more

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New calls to rename Higgs boson

One of the scientists who developed the theory of the Higgs boson says the particle should be renamed to acknowledge the contributions of others involved in the work.

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U.S. plans to drop gray wolves from endangered list

The planned ruling would eliminate protection for the top predators, but scientists and conservationists say the proposal is flawed. Federal authorities intend to remove endangered species protections...

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One flight closer to space tourism

Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave...

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Russia charging NASA $70 million per rocket seat

NASA is blaming Congress for the need to pay $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space.

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