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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How might changing climate patterns impact how diseases are spread? Last July, a mysterious illness began sweeping across the Yamal Peninsula--a cold, remote region of northwestern Siberia, a [...]

Wild horses gallop through a Nevada desert, raising clouds of dust behind them. A helicopter flies overhead. Its pilot maneuvers the chopper right, then left, herding the wild horses, called [...]

Victoria Jensen was in seventh grade when she became fascinated with viruses. These tiny particles can't move or reproduce on their own. But when they invade living cells and replicate [...]

Looking for something to watch this weekend? Xavier Amatriain can help. As a computer scientist at Netflix in California, he develops the recommendation system for the company's online streaming service. [...]

Lee McCarthy's job is a hot one: He sets furniture, cars, and even whole buildings on fire--then he uses science to study how they burn. As a fire-protection engineer for [...]

A garden gnome named Kern is traveling the globe to make a point: The attractive force of gravity is not the same everywhere on Earth (see diagram, right). A company [...]

A garden gnome named Kern is traveling the globe to make a point: The attractive force of gravity is not the same everywhere on Earth (see diagram, right). A company [...]

This man has a second nose--on his forehead! Xiaolian, a 22-year-old from China, needed a new nose after his was damaged by a severe infection following a car accident. (For [...]

A new car that can fold up so it's smaller than a golf cart could make parking in crowded cities a snap. Two people can fit into the Hiriko Fold, [...]

Your eyes aren't fooling you. That rat really does have an ear shaped like a human's on its back! Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital grew the ear in their labs [...]

Last October, an experimental car finished fifth at the Petit Le Mans--a 1,609 kilometer (1,000 mile) endurance race held in Braselton, Georgia. The sleek black car, called the DeltaWing, has [...]

The next time you go to squash a cockroach, think twice. That same bug could someday save your life. Scientists have found a way to turn living roaches into remote-controlled [...]

Squid have color-changing skin that shimmers like a disco ball. Scientists think they now have found the key to how these animals turn their sparkle on and off: nerve cells. [...]

Yasser Lopez is one lucky kid. The 16-year-old from Florida survived having a 1 meter (3 foot)-long spear pierce his skull! The injury happened last summer at a lake when [...]