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According to a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center Brazil's market forces and political will are converging in an unprecedented opportunity to end deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon leaving 80 percent of the forest still standing.

An extraordinarily bright, extraordinarily long-lasting supernova named SN 2007bi, snagged in a search by a robotic telescope, turns out to be the first example of the kind of stars that first populated the Universe.

Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.

What happens when a really gargantuan star -- one hundreds of times bigger than our sun -- blows up? Although a theory developed years ago describes what the explosion of such an enormous star should look like, no one had actually observed one - until now

A coating on windows that repels grime and dirt? New research, just published in Nature Nanotechnology, details a breakthrough in assembling peptides at the nano-scale level that could make this futuristic vision come true in just a few years.

Single-walled nanotubes—cylinders of carbon about a nanometer in diameter to be used for the detection and destruction of an aggressive form of breast cancer.

A recent AFOSR-funded technology should enable the Air Force to achieve advances in object and target detection technology by using sophisticated algebraic theories called groups, rings and fields.

A new study in reveals the evolutionary trigger which led to early flowering plants gaining a major competitive advantage over rival species.

An international study that examined the extent of infections in nearly 1,300 intensive care units (ICUs) in 75 countries found that about 50 percent of the patients were considered infected.

robot is currently building a looping brick wall right in the middle of New York. Over a period of three weeks, passers-by can watch the "Pike Loop" installation in the making on a traffic island.