|  Need for Speed: New Series Explores World's Fastest Things  | From building the world's fastest cars, trucks and boats to rooting for Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt, humans are obsessed with speed.
| Read More » Perfect Storm: Blizzard, Shutdown Pummel South Dakota Ranchers On the same week that a federal budget standoff shut down vast swaths of the U.S. government, a freak blizzard shut down vast swaths of South Dakota. And both disasters have combined to devastate one of the state's biggest industries. Read More » The Government Shutdown Is (Almost) Over, but the Damage to Science Will Last The Government Shutdown Is (Almost) Over, but the Damage to Science Will Last Read More » Secrets to the Biggest Frog Jumps Ever Revealed  | When Mark Twain authored "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in 1865, he probably didn't expect the short story would be the spark that would result in scientists realizing that their experiments vastly underestimate how far a bullfrog can leap, thus calling into question an entire body of research on muscle physiology.
| Read More » Oreos As Addictive as Cocaine? Not So Fast Oreos as addictive as cocaine? A new study purports to draw a link, but don't check into a treatment center for your Double Stuf addiction just yet. Read More » Sea Level Rise Swamping Florida's Everglades  | Rising sea levels are transforming the Florida Everglades, a new study shows. Plant communities that thrive in salt water are expanding along the coast, leaving less room for plants that depend on fresh water.
| Read More » Pre-Incan Culture Expanded Through Trade, Not Conquest  | The Wari, an ancestor culture to the Incas that flourished throughout the Andean Highlands, expanded their reign largely through trade and semiautonomous colonies, rather than through the iron fist of conquest and centralized control, new research suggests.
| Read More » Today's Teens More Prone to Genital Herpes, Study Suggests Teens today may be more susceptible to one type of genital herpes infection once they become sexually active than teens in years past, a new study suggests. Read More » New Wave Wi-Fi: Wireless Underwater Internet in the Works  | There's Wi-Fi on the International Space Station, so why not at the bottom of the ocean? The problem: Radio waves, which carry wireless signals, are sluggish in water.
| Read More » Science Gets Graphic in New Comic Books  | NEW YORK — Amid the superheroes, cult TV shows and video games at New York Comic Con 2013, an observer might consider a panel on science out of place.
| Read More » Does Mercury Hold Clues to Birth of Earth's Moon?  | LONDON — Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, may hold clues to understanding how the Earth's moon was born, a scientist studying the planet says.
| Read More » How Late Author Tom Clancy Supported Private Spaceflight  | Tom Clancy, the best-selling writer and master storyteller of military thrillers who died Oct. 1 at age 66 in a Baltimore hospital, was also an early supporter of entrepreneurial space.
| Read More » Biggest Star Ever Found Is Ripping Apart (Photo)  | The largest star ever discovered may give scientists a better sense of how massive, dying stars seed the universe with the ingredients for rocky planets and even life.
| Read More » Minor Lunar Eclipse on Friday: How to See It  | On Friday evening (Oct. 18), the moon will undergo an eclipse of minor importance — a "penumbral" lunar eclipse.
| Read More » Shutdown Over: Science Agencies Send Celebratory 'Back to Work' Tweets  | The two-week government shutdown is finally over, and thousands of federal employees have gone back to work, including the folks who operate the Twitter feeds for the numerous science-oriented agencies, national parks and museums.
| Read More » Retired NFL Players Show 'Pronounced' Brain Abnormalities There's been much debate over the brain damage football can cause, and now a new study provides evidence that professional football players have brain abnormalities. Read More » NASA Back Online After Government Shutdown Ends  | NASA is open for business again.
| Read More » Misconceptions About Miscarriages Are Common, Survey Finds The majority of Americans are misinformed about the causes and frequency of miscarriages, a national survey shows. Read More » The Yeti: Has a Geneticist Solved the Mystery?  | A geneticist believes he may have begun to solve the riddle of one of most enduring myths in all of cryptozoology: the yeti, or Abominable Snowman, of the Himalayas.
| Read More » Were Earliest Humans All 1 Species? Oddball Skull Sparks Debate  | The earliest, now-extinct human lineages, once thought to be multiple species, may actually have been one species, researchers now controversially suggest.
| Read More » Devastating Frog Fungus Triggers Cell Suicides  | A deadly fungus spreading like wildfire through amphibian populations causes immune cells to commit suicide, a new study finds.
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