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Those same compounds may also have been key to methane reduction in the early, oxygenless days of the planet's atmosphere.

Iranian scientists have become the first in the Middle East to clone a cow as part of the country's stem cell research, the leader of the project said Saturday.

MOSCOW, Idaho - The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle - its very name evoking the fictional sandworms from "Dune" or those vicious creatures from the movie "Tremors." The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit ...

Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.

Another small earthquake - the seventh in about a month - has been reported in the North Texas town of Cleburne.

The public looks up to scientists but scientists tend to look down on the public; and science journalism gets a lot of the blame.

The Arxiv is an online repository of scientific papers in physics, astronomy, maths, cosmology, computer science, and a few other topics, where papers due to be published on scientific journals are submitted by the authors...

Earth's 4.5-billion-year history is filled with several turning points when temperatures changed dramatically, asteroids bombarded the planet and life forms came and disappeared.

North Korea, which has been firing missiles and spewing threats against the United States, was identified by South Korea's main spy agency Wednesday as a suspect in the cyber attacks targeting government and other Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea.

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have spotted the most distant and oldest star explosions yet in the universe.

Authorities say they believe a South Texas man drowned after a swarm of bees forced him into a canal.

Gov. Sonny Perdue says Georgia will receive a high performance bonus of $4 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its management of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly the Food Stamp Program.

That Google operating system rumor is coming true--and it's based on Google's browser, Chrome.

If not for the triple-digit heat, central Texas rancher Debbie Davis could almost think it was a different season entirely.

No damage or injuries have been reported following a small earthquake that rattled parts of central Virginia.

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano Pope Benedict XVI signs his third encyclical of his pontificate, at the Vatican, Monday, July 6, 2009.

Federal regulators will examine whether the government should impose limits on the number of futures contracts in oil and other energy commodities held by speculative traders, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday.

New safety standards aimed at reducing salmonella and E. coli outbreaks are part of a government effort to try to make food safer to eat.

YAKIMA, Wash. Cherry growers in three West Coast states will be able to ship sweet cherries to Japan more cheaply because of a change in the country's pest control requirements for imports of the fruit.

Levittown - First came the rain. Buckets of rain. Three weeks of rain.Now come the mosquitoes.