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Triple-digit heat forecast for Southern California (Weather), Denver (Weather) and North Texas (Weather) - [Read more]

A 15-year experiment in an outdoor "laboratory" shows that naturally colonizing wetlands can offer just as many, if not more, ecological services as will wetlands planted by humans. Researchers have been comparing the behavior of two experimental marshes on the campus, one that was planted in 1994 with wetland vegetation and another that was left to colonize plant and animal life on its own. - [Read more]

Fearless aphids -- which become accustomed to ignoring genetically engineered chemical alarms in plants and alarms sent by fellow aphids -- become easy prey for ladybugs. Thats good news for farmers, according to researchers. - [Read more]

Researchers have demonstrated the first plastic computer memory device that utilizes the spin of electrons to read and write data. An alternative to traditional microelectronics, so-called "spintronics" could store more data in less space, process data faster, and consume less power. - [Read more]

After 14 years of work, unceasing attacks from critics, and a $50 million investment without a penny of profit, a small New England biotech company stands on the doorstep of history - seemingly poised to join agricultures "green revolution" as a game-changer in feeding the world.

The skies were clear over Moscow Thursday, giving residents a desperately needed break from air pollution thanks to favourable winds and some success in fighting wildfires that have choked the capital with clouds of acrid smog.

Emodin, a natural product that can be extracted from various Chinese herbs including Rheum palmatum and Polygonum cuspidatum, shows promise as an agent that could reduce the impact of type 2 diabetes. New findings show that giving emodin to mice with diet-induced obesity lowered blood glucose and serum insulin, improved insulin resistance and lead to more healthy levels of lipid in the blood. It also decreased body weight and reduced central fat mass. - [Read more]

A massive reduction in grasslands and the spread of forests may have been the primary cause of the decline of mammals such as the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino and cave lion, according to scientists. - [Read more]

Astronaut muscles waste away on long space flights reducing their capacity for physical work by more than 40 percent, according to new research. This is the equivalent of a 30- to 50-year-old crew members muscles deteriorating to that of an 80-year-old. The destructive effects of extended weightlessness to skeletal muscle -- despite in-flight exercise -- pose a significant safety risk for future manned missions to Mars and elsewhere in the universe. - [Read more]

Blocking thoughts of cigarettes helps reduce smokers’ intake at first, but means they smoke more than usual when they stop suppressing, according to new research. - [Read more]

The freedom of emigration at will is internationally recognized as a human right. But, in practice, emigration is often restricted, whether by policy or by poverty. A new study finds that people who are told that their right to emigrate will be restricted have what could be considered a strange reaction: they respond by defending their countrys system. - [Read more]

Researchers have discovered that a special set of sugars found on some disease-causing pathogens helps those pathogens fight the bodys natural defenses as well as vaccines. This discovery may be a first step in understanding a disease family that includes tuberculosis for which there are currently no good vaccines or cures. - [Read more]

Just 11 hours of learning a meditation technique induces positive structural changes in brain connectivity by boosting efficiency in a part of the brain that helps a person regulate behavior in accordance with their goals, researchers report. The technique -- integrative body-mind training (IBMT) -- has been the focus of intense scrutiny by a team of Chinese researchers. - [Read more]

Eating more green leafy vegetables can significantly reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, new research finds. - [Read more]

The actual number of people killed by the massive flooding in Pakistan remains unknown because large areas of the country are inaccessible, Islamabads UN envoy said on Friday.

A unique natural laboratory in the Mediterranean Sea is revealing the effects of rising carbon dioxide levels on life in the oceans. The results show a bleak future for marine life as ocean acidity rises, and suggest that similar lowering of ocean pH levels may have been responsible for massive extinctions in the past. - [Read more]

Scientists have found that soluble fibers found in plantain, a type of large banana, could be used to treat patients with Crohns disease. - [Read more]

New Delhi, Aug 29 : Delhi experienced a hot and humid Sunday with the days temperature above the average level.

A surprise downpour sparked collisions involving 69 vehicles on an interstate near Phoenixs downtown area Saturday evening, closing the westbound ...

Previous research has claimed that the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 is helping restore quaking aspen in risky areas where wolves prowl. But apparently elk hungry for winter food had a different idea. They did not know they were supposed to be responding to a "landscape of fear." - [Read more]

Scientists have built a clearer picture of how lengthy strands of DNA are concertinaed when our cells grow and divide, in a discovery could help explain how cell renewal can go wrong. - [Read more]

Researchers have identified unique metabolic properties that allow a specific type of stem cell in the body to survive and replicate in low-oxygen environments. - [Read more]

Hurricane Earl continued to take aim on southeastern New England on Friday afternoon, but the storm was "losing its punch," according to the ...

Hurricane Earl was downgraded to a tropical storm Friday night just as it was bearing down on Canadaa s East Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Centre ... more A 1 hour ago Comments A Also on Driving.ca Mazda Design New Mazda design peeks at future Mazda is in the process of defining a new design language for its upcoming models.

The intense heat this summer wasnt a mirage for the tens of millions of people in the eastern and southern USA: Every state east of the Mississippi ...

The state says it fired a youth prison guard after he posted racial slurs on Facebook aimed at black co-workers and black Ohio juvenile inmates.

Russia banned grain exports for the rest of the year on Thursday after a severe drought destroyed 20 percent of its wheat crop.

Deep discounts on summer leftovers and hot weather drove shoppers into malls in July, but they remained choosy, resulting in only modest gains.

Election officials are touting air conditioned polling places in Tennessee as a dangerous heat wave bakes a large swath of the nation from Texas to New York.

The U.S. government is set to update its outlook for the Atlantic hurricane season.

Temperatures topped 100 degrees in much of the nation again Wednesday, elevating the risk of health problems and wildfires - and in Arkansas, prompting a warning that its too hot to skin hogs.

Heavy rain triggered a mudslide north of Wenatchee that covered part of Highway 97A, and a truck driver and two people inside a nearby home escaped.

Temperatures over 100 degrees are still melting much of the U.S., prompting health warnings and adding to the danger of wildfires.

Seven puppies have died after flying in the cargo hold of an American Airlines jet.

Authorities say high winds reaching 70 mph knocked over three barns Wednesday at Ohios largest egg farm, killing two workers.

President Barack Obama has declared parts of Texas a disaster area following the first hurricane of the 2010 season.

A cold front was forecast to dip through the Midwest on Wednesday bringing with it the threat of severe weather from Missouri to Ohio.

Moscow was engulfed Wednesday by the thickest blanket of smog yet this summer, an acrid, choking haze from wildfires that have wiped out Russian forests, villages and a military base.

Soggy weather is complicating efforts to build a road to a new Waukee elementary school.

Heavy rains hindered efforts by workers to repair reservoirs and place sandbags along breached riverbanks Wednesday as the death toll from Chinas worst flooding in a decade climbed above 1,000. Thousands of workers rushed to repair 51 small reservoirs that suffered damage and to fortify riverbanks along the Songhua River after floods triggered by ...

Floodwaters ravaged hundreds of villages in Pakistans heartland Wednesday, killing dozens more people and destroying thousands of homes.

Firefighters struggled Tuesday to contain the worst wildfires to hit Russia for decades, as a relentless heatwave and campfires left burning by the public sparked hundreds of new blazes.

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After record-setting heat in July in some areas, August is starting out hotter as temperatures force heat advisories in 18 states from Texas ...

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say Tropical Storm Colin has re-formed in the Atlantic and is approaching Bermuda.

Record high ocean temperatures and the development of a climate phenomenon known as La Nina will keep the Atlantic hurricane season on track ...

Wildfires were raging close to a shelter housing hundreds of dogs and retired circus animals, animal activists said Thursday, as the death toll ...

As sweltering heat continued across much of the USA this week, forecasters say relief in the form of a mild winter is on the way.