Climate models suggest that storms such as hurricanes Irene and Sandy will increase in intensity and frequency, says Geography Professor Frank Magilligan.
A team of U.S. ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Dr.
A portable e-notebook that blind people can use to write and translate Braille and make voice memos could go on sale in China later this year.
Scientists have unpicked the brain processes involved in teenage alcohol abuse and say their findings help explain why some young people have more of a tendency to binge drink.
Nature uncorks five tales of researchers who plunged into the heady science of viticulture.
Researchers hope finding may help in developing treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease