(AP)—Crews renovating a public square in the U.S. Virgin Islands have discovered a 1,500-year-old landfill stuffed with shells, bones and pottery fragments.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 13, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 0

A new owl is the first endemic bird species discovered on the island of Lombok, Indonesia, according to research published February 13 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by an international team headed by George Sangster of the ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 13, 2013 4.8 / 5 (6) 0 |

Data from NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites showed powerful thunderstorms continued to wrap around the center of circulation Tropical Cyclone Gino as the storm achieved a category 2 hurricane status.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 13, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(AP)—Research firm Gartner says worldwide cellphone sales fell last year, as economic turmoil dampened shopper appetites.

Technology - Business

Feb 13, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

Jawbone on Wednesday warned users of its earpieces and Jambox speakers that hackers stole names, email addresses and encrypted passwords from accounts used to make the wireless devices smarter.

Technology - Internet

Feb 13, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 3

(AP)—Fortune magazine is reporting that a "serious buyer" is talking with Time Warner to buy several magazines from it, including People, InStyle and Real Simple.

Technology - Business

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(AP)—Two top officials at a New Jersey municipal water authority have been indicted on charges they hid elevated levels of a contaminant in the drinking water supply.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 13, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 6

If engineers at Stanford have their way, biological research may soon be transformed by a new class of light-emitting probes small enough to be injected into individual cells without harm to the host. Welcome ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Feb 13, 2013 5 / 5 (8) 3 |

Scientists from around the world have called for laws to tackle the growing problem of plastic waste.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 13, 2013 3 / 5 (7) 12 |

(AP)—Cisco's latest quarterly report provided further evidence that spending on technology gear is rising modestly in most parts of the world, despite persisting concerns about a still-shaky economy.

Technology - Business

Feb 13, 2013 not rated yet 0

Marsh plants, far from being passive wallflowers, are "secret gardeners" that actively engineer their landscape to increase their species' odds of survival, says a team of scientists from Duke University ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 13, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reveals details of living tissues, diseased organs and tumors inside the body without x-rays or surgery. What if the same technology could peer down to the level of atoms? ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 13, 2013 4.2 / 5 (5) 0 |

Scientists from Stanford University, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and other organizations are closing in on the answer to an important conservation question: ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 13, 2013 3.8 / 5 (4) 0

Neil Hunter's laboratory in the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences has placed another piece in the puzzle of how sexual reproduction shuffles genes while making sure sperm and eggs get the right number ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 13, 2013 4 / 5 (4) 2 |

They can already stand, walk, wriggle under obstacles, and change colors. Now researchers are adding a new skill to the soft robot arsenal: jumping.

Electronics - Robotics

Feb 13, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1 |