Melting of the Arctic sea ice due to global warming is diluting surface waters and this is endangering some species of shellfish which need minerals in the water to form their shells and skeletons, scientists have found.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment could be re-started on Saturday morning at the earliest, officials have said. Engineers are preparing to send a beam of sub-atomic particles all the way round the 27km-long circular tunnel which houses the LHC.

With the upcoming disaster film "2012" and the current hype about Mayan calendars and doomsday predictions, it seems like a good time to put such notions in context.

Chrome will run on specially designed computers and will be entirely web based. There are no desktop applications and the OS will run inside a web browser that resembles Google's current web browser, also called Chrome.

After decades of seeing plants as passive recipients of fate, scientists have found them capable of behaviors once thought unique to animals. Some plants even appear to be social, favoring family while pushing strangers from the neighborhood.

Gay Catholics and victims of clergy sexual abuse are hailing preliminary results of a study commissioned by U.S. Catholic bishops that says gay priests are no more likely than straight clergy to sexually abuse minors.

So many misconceptions abound that the suicidal truly needing an intervention in order to survive may very well not receive the help they need to recover. Individuals making the effort to personally empathize with this sad plight

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"There has hardly been any rain or snow in winter since 2006, and there was very little rain this year even during monsoon.

The average British woman "hosts" 515 chemicals on her body every day, according to a new study.