USC study finds that green tea blocks benefits of cancer drug

researchers have found that the widely used supplement renders a cancer drug used to treat multiple myeloma and mantle cell lymphoma completely ineffective

Bold Action by Department of Interior Halts Leasing of Utah Wilderness

Obama Orders Sharp Tightening of Auto Fuel Efficiency Standards

This morning, as expected, President Obama told the Transportation Department to draft implementing rules, pursuant to 2007 legislation, calling for a 40 percent improvement in automotive fuel efficiency by 2020

Electric Vehicles Can Cut Power Plant Pollution

Shifting to soot-free power sources will reduce mortality in cities, we noted, while increased use of variable wind power could jack up emissions NOx

Fossils Push Animal Life Back Millions of Years

Animal life first appeared on Earth tens of millions of years earlier than thought

Carbon-Nanotube Memory that Really Competes

Researchers in Finland have created a form of carbon-nanotube based information storage that is comparable in speed to a type of memory commonly used

Simplicity is crucial to design optimization at nanoscale

MIT researchers have discovered that the particular arrangement of proteins that produces the sturdiest product is not the arrangement with the most built-in redundancy

Scientists discover ground-breaking material: Graphane

Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced a ground-breaking new material, graphane, which has been derived from graphene.

Toxic Gases Caused World's Worst Extinction

When a supervolcano rained down on Earth, part of what may have killed 90 percent of all life was toxic amounts of carbon.

2011 Smart Car Electric

Read about 2011 Smart Electric – 2009 Detroit Auto Show pictures, news and information. Check out the latest concept cars, future cars and new cars.

First US face transplant patient leaves hospital

She can eat pizza. And hamburgers. She can smell perfume, drink coffee from a cup, and purse her lips as if to blow a kiss.

Science Friday Archives: A Year of Darwin

AIDS gels may work, but weakness found in cocktails

Gels to protect women from infection with the AIDS virus have shown hints that they may work, researchers said on Monday.

New Device Reads Minds Pretty Well | LiveScience

Researchers say they can glean simple preferences from a person's brain by shining near-infrared light into the noggin.

Treehouse by Tham & Videgard Hansson is Almost Invisible

It is an old architectural trick used since the invention of mirrored glass: covering buildings with the reflective material and declaring that they blend in with the surroundings.