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Half of cancer scientists have failed to reproduce the findings of other researchers, according to an anonymous survey. In an anonymous survey taken by scientists at a prestigious cancer center, more than half of the respondents said they'd failed to reproduce published scientific findings at l ...

Sorry, animated movies. Drama is top dog. You probably have your own choice for Greatest Movie Of All Time. But what do the masses say? The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has a set of picks, rated by users, that you can peruse. And if you want to know a little more about what kind of movie make ...

The precise method by which Yahoo! digests and dissolves its prey. Yahoo! is a carnivorous plant whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid, known as a pitfall trap. Startups, such as Flickr, Tumblr, and Del.icio.us, are attracted to the cavity formed by the cupped ...

It's cool to eat as much candy as you want, you guys, no problem, just live off the stuff. Good news, guys! Candy isn't going to make you fat or kill you or anything negative at all! Feast on M&M's like an 8-year-old on Halloween, because you're totally good on this one. Says a study funde ...

A New York Times mini-documentary examines the flawed science behind the 1980s 'crack baby' scare. The New York Times has a fascinating documentary on the crack cocaine epidemic that gripped the United States in the 1980s. The short of it: The “crack baby” scare that threatened to spawn a gener ...

Go inside the anti-trafficking fight in the Philippines where one activist wins support from Manny Pacquiao.

Navy launches drone from carrier for the first time. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.

Sonali Mukherjee is still fighting for justice 10 years and 27 surgeries after an acid attack. Sumnima Udas reports.

CNN's Holly Firfer gives us the scoop on Greek yogurt and how it compares to other yogurts on store shelves.

Taylor Swift is queen at the Billboard Awards, "Star Trek" is a box office hit, and all judges returning to "The Voice"!

Valletta, Malta August 2012

Valletta, Malta August 2012

St. George's Square, Valletta Malta August 2012

Valletta, Malta August 2012

Ruaha's landscape toward the end of the dry season (middle October) is austere, leaving the zebra and baobabs to stand out.

The harlequin ladybug is an aggressive invasive species that has leveraged intraguild predation to devastate native ladybug populations. Saving those native species might now rest on finding ways to eliminate a parasitic fungus that was recently discovered inside harlequins and that may be respo ...

Many of the species of sharks (and shark relatives) that Paul Clerkin studies live at such depths that the only contact they have with humans is when they surface as bycatch on commercial trawlers. On a two-month voyage aboard one such vessel last year, Clerkin, a graduate student at Moss Landin ...

A ship is undoubtedly the noblest machine that ever was invented; and consists of so many parts, that it would require a whole volume to describe it minutely. However, we shall endeavour to satisfy the reader the more fully on this head.

Languages change—sometimes abruptly, sometimes at a predictable rate, almost always profoundly. Linguists are pressing on with their long-standing quest to trace the evolution of the languages we speak, even as so many of those languages are disappearing. Step inside for more on this complex sub ...

What are America's urban trees and forests worth? A recent study suggests that when it comes to carbon storage and sequestration, their economic value soars to more than $50 billion.