The failure to protect the Flame code from being reverse engineered may turn out to have been a monumental error. The discovery of a new species of highly sophisticated malware earlier this week adds another [...]

Shell is preparing to lead a new oil rush in the American north this summer despite spill risks A new round of exploratory oil drilling is due to begin in the Arctic this July. Oil [...]

Fracking in Texas’s Eagle Ford Shale has used up to 13 million gallons of water per well Of all the troubles with fracking, the biggest—and growing—challenge seems to be what to do with all those [...]

Flexible keys raised by fluid or gas on a touch screen surface applied to smart phones, tablets and other consumer electronics gadgets are expected to debut in 2013. Today you have to choose: Blackberry-style keypad [...]

A layered design would split two key aspects of a light wave, enabling electromagnetic energy to pull objects Tractor beams, a staple of science fiction, may be moving closer to science fact. In a paper [...]

Reports of tinnitus are rising because of widespread use of personal entertainment Tinnitus, a condition that causes people to hear sounds such as ringing in the ears even when all is quiet, afflicts at least [...]

A new app and Web site may make it easier to predict storm surges Researchers have had a notoriously difficult time predicting how much flooding a given area will experience in the wake of a [...]

Humanity may be pushing the planet toward sudden, irreversible ecological changes Human activities are pushing Earth toward a “tipping point” that could cause sudden, irreversible changes in relatively stable conditions that have allowed civilization to [...]

We will do our best to match you with the appropriate researcher and project   The Lowell Amateur Research Initiative (LARI) is looking to engage the ever-growing and technically sophisticated amateur astronomy community in some [...]

Other science agencies should follow NIH policy, say campaigners   More than 17,000  23,000 people have signed an online petition urging US President Barack Obama to require all scientific journal articles resulting from US taxpayer-funded [...]

Climate scientists think a perfect storm of climate “flips” could cause massive upheavals in a matter of years   The eminent British scientist James Lovelock, back in the 1970s, formulated his theory of Gaia, which [...]

Scientists continue to discover more and more of the powerful greenhouse gas escaping from the thawing Arctic   Scientists have found more than 150,000 sites in the Arctic where methane is seeping into the atmosphere, [...]