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Beware the smell of bitter almonds. Why do many food plants contain cyanide? In murder mysteries, the detective usually diagnoses cyanide poisoning by the scent of bitter almond...

Asteroid Impact in 2182?Scientists are reporting that a 560-meter diameter asteroid could hit the Earth in the year 2182. "T...

Martian Dust Devil Whirls into Opportunity's ViewIn its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust...

Best hope for saving Arctic sea ice is cutting soot emissions, says Stanford researcherSoot from the burning of fossil fuels and solid biofuels contributes far more to global warming than...

Quantum fractals at the border of magnetismU.S., German and Austrian physicists studying the perplexing class of materials that includes high-t...

Calcium Connections: Penn Researchers Discover Basic Pathway for Maintaining Cell's Fuel StoresUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have described a previously unknown biolog...

Caltech Astronomer Finds Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitar...

Findings show promise for nuclear fusion test reactorsResearchers have discovered mechanisms critical to interactions between hot plasma and surfaces faci...

Stars Just Got Bigger: A 300 Solar Mass Star UncoveredUsing a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the mo...

The Flight of Migrating MicrobesEvery day, millions of microorganisms travel with the wind from one place on Earth to another. Bacte...

Scientists Set Sail to Map the Arctic SeafloorAmerican and Canadian scientists are setting sail this summer to map the Arctic seafloor and gather ...

Caltech Team Finds Evidence of Water in Moon MineralsThat dry, dusty moon overhead? Seems it isn't quite as dry as it's long been thought to be. Although...

Muscle gene may provide new treatments for obesity and diabetesSkeletal muscle enables us to walk, run or play a musical instrument, but it also plays a crucial ro...

First results from Large Hadron Collider announcedA group of University of Toronto high-energy physicists, along with their 3,000 ATLAS colleagues, an...

Nanoparticles Increase Intensity of Quantum Dots' GlowBy linking individual semiconductor quantum dots with gold nanoparticles, scientists at the U.S. Dep...

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