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Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires.

New research indicates glacial ice existed on earth during intense period of global warming.

When Stanford computer scientist Vladlen Koltun decided to build a better virtual world, he began with 3-D trees—millions of them. Now he wants to give them away.

Yong Guan had scribbled 12 arrows across his office whiteboard, each black line going from one little box he had drawn to another little box. He had written five long formulas up there, too.

An animated movie shows an ordered structure dissolving little by little into a disordered mess after a light pulse

f the latest simulation of what happens when black holes merge is correct, there could be hundreds of rogue black holes, each weighing several thousand times the mass of the sun, roaming around the Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new "nanobiotechnology" that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level.

Did the notorious Belle Gunness, who amassed a fortune during a devious campaign of arson and murder at the turn of the 20th century, fake her death to evade the law?

Research on a treasure trove of amber has yielded evidence that France once was covered by a dense tropical rainforest with trees similar to those found in the modern-day Amazon.

Researchers urge governments to be far more selective about which biofuels they support, as not all are more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels.