A new study has a message for any country claiming to limit its emissions of greenhouse gasses: don't cheat. Using data gathered by sensors scattered around an urban area, researchers say they can track changes in a city's carbon dioxide output.

Putting Schumann resonance to use.

Now there's another reason to get back to nature. A new study reveals that people who grow up in more rural environments are less likely to develop allergies.

The biggest full moon of the year will rise Saturday (May 5) as Earth's only satellite swings into its perigee, or closest approach to Earth. This so-called "supermoon" will appear extra big and extra bright. In honor of the moon's big show, here are a few myths about the Earth's rocky satellite.

Natural forces of evolution still continue to shape humanity despite the power we have to profoundly alter the world around us, researchers say.

Coils hint that volcanoes, not ice, shaped odd red planet region.

In Pennsylvania, voucher proponents have spent more than $1 million on election season so far. Will the state set a national precedent in privatizing public schools?

With their strange 60-atom structures, buckyballs could have potential as drug carriers, medical tracers, cancer fighters and other interesting applications in the human body. Now, a group of French researchers set out to study its toxicity and other effects, and came up with a surprising find — not only are buckyballs safe, a buckyball diet doubled the lifespan of lab rats.

New analysis suggests robots discovered microbes in 1976.

Strip of earth connecting Asia and North America disrupted ocean circulation.

The United States is at risk of ceding its leadership in science, a number of physicists agreed Monday (April 2), though there was less of a consensus on a clear solution to the problem.

The discovery may shed light on a major turning point in human evolution.

The 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is showing some far-reaching effects, including a possible link with dolphins stranding in Barataria Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.

By 2050, global average temperature could be between 1.4°C and 3°C warmer than it was just a couple of decades ago, according to a new study that seeks to address the largest sources of uncertainty in current climate models.

A dread of malevolent spirits haunting forsaken areas could, along with environmental catastrophes, help to explain why some areas in the ancient Mayan world proved less resilient than others when their civilization disintegrated, researchers suggest.

The researchers are studying what's technically called an "alcohol-induced fragmentary blackout" — what some might call a brownout — a time when memories get spotty due to alcohol drinking.

Scientists think adding a baby's imaginative powers and all-around braininess to computers would make these machines smarter and more human.

This measurement, though not very precise, represents a first step toward being able to study antimatter atoms in detail — a goal necessary for understanding why the universe is made of matter and not antimatter, its mysterious sibling.

Quantum physics deals with the realm of the very small, and most of us never expect to see the weird world it describes. But could we?

The weird science of invisibility has entered uncharted waters. By altering the sea floor in just the right way, it should be possible to hide an object floating on the sea from passing waves, a fluid mechanician predicts.

Just when you thought you had the latest in camera technology, along comes something new and shiny and ... rectangular.

Upper-class people (and motorists) are more likely to behave in ways that flout the rules, such as not stopping for pedestrians at a crosswalk.

The more scientists learn about eagle vision, the more awesome it sounds. Thanks to developing technologies, some aspects of their eyesight may eventually be achievable for humans. Others, we can only imagine.

The chemistry of life better matches that found in volcanic vents rather than the sea, as Darwin predicted.

Those famous neutrinos that appeared to travel faster than light in an Italian experiment last September probably did not do so after all. A faulty connection between a GPS receiver and a computer may be to blame for the mistake.

Researchers from the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University of Melbourne have achieved a breakthrough in computing by creating a working one-atom transistor, beating Moore's Law's prediction by eight years.

These programmable chips could dramatically change treatment for osteoporosis and also many other diseases including cancer and multiple sclerosis.

If you're planning a trip to Africa, pack that zebra-print shirt that's been hiding in the back of your closet. A new study finds that zebra stripes disrupt light patterns that tsetse flies and horseflies use to find food and water.

Our canine friends get us in ways that no other animals do.

Contact lenses that help enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images are being designed by scientists using military funding.

An ultrasound zap to the testicles can stop the production of sperm, reducing overall sperm count to a level that would render males infertile, according to a new study involving rats. (So, just how exactly did they get politicians to volunteer for the Testicular Sonicator? –B)

If the numbers hold up, this month could be the third-busiest January since tornado record-keeping began in 1950.

Thoroughbred horses owe their amazing sprinting capabilities to just a couple of ancestors, according to a new study that traces the genetics of these racehorses.

The Nuremberg Code, set up to protect the human subjects of research, is being routinely ignored.

As Wikipedia and Google protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a rival bill offers a middle road to protecting copyrights.

It may be the dream of many an animal lover to swim with whales or dolphins in the open water as a way of connecting with our ocean-faring mammal counterparts, but it turns out that those two species actually enjoy some quality time with one another, too.

Right now, if you want to read the published results of the biomedical research that your own tax dollars paid for, all you have to do is visit the digital archive of the National Institutes of Health. There you’ll find thousands of articles on the latest discoveries in medicine and disease, all free of charge. A new bill in Congress wants to make you pay for that, thank you very much.

What car companies like General Motors envision for the future is ambitious: Not only will cars be able to connect with cloud-based services, they will also be able to talk to other cars. (Hey babe, nice headlights. –B)

Supersoldiers have a body size as much as twice as large as soldiers' and heads that as much as three times larger than soldiers'.

Do all the devastating earthquakes we experienced this year suggest even more such disasters in 2012? The short answer, according to a new study: No.

A small fish crawling on stumpy limbs from a shrinking desert pond is an icon of can-do spirit, emblematic of a leading theory for the evolutionary transition between fish and amphibians. This theorized image of such a drastic adaptation to changing environmental conditions, however, may, itself, be evolving into a new picture.

Forget leap years, months with 28 days and your birthday falling on a different day of the week each year. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland say they have a better way to mark time: a new calendar in which every year is identical to the one before.

America's corn belt overlaps with its central "wind belt"—a wide swath of the midsection of the United States that is ideal for wind energy development-an intersection that could be good news for corn, new research suggests.

The data collected during the balloon-based Concordiasi project will improve the understanding of processes driving ozone-hole formation each spring in the Southern Hemisphere.

Physicists reveal a new way to create ultra-cold matter, reaching temperatures 10-to-100-times colder than currently achieved.

The poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) is known all across the world as the flower of Christmas. It is native to the countries of Mexico and Guatemala. Poinsettias are members of the Euphorbiaceae Family and like many plants of this family the poinsettia oozes a milky, latex sap. Learn more with a fascinating slide show.

Human body hair might seem to be useless on today's modern man, but it could help us detect parasites, researchers suggest, adding there's a chance our female ancestors preferred a bug-free mate, and so opted for hairier guys.

From time travel to interstellar communication, an expert explains what sci-fi gets right and wrong.

Word of warning, try not to blind the drivers of oncoming cars. That could get messy.