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The story of how one of the most polluted waterways in America came to be located in one of the country's most expensive neighborhoods. Also: dysentery, cancer, and arsenic poisoning.

The Hubble and James Webb space telescopes won't find life beyond the solar system. With funding and support, here's what might.

Don't give up hope! It could still be diamond, but new data show that's less likely.

People just need to be petted to know who they are.

A new diagnostic test involves a dollop of peanut butter.

Ellenbogen, the co-chair of the NFL's Head, Neck and Spine committee and a neurological surgery professor at the University of Washington, talks to us about the NFL's efforts to make football safer, the future of concussion research, and the technology that will get us there.

'We're all sort of stumbling around in a fog,' one of the study authors says.

In a major first, an experiment in the California lab got more energy out of its fuel than went into the fuel. We're one step closer to ignition, when the reaction becomes self-sustaining.

François Englert and Peter Higgs just received the Nobel Prize in Physics for laying the groundwork for the discovery of the Higgs boson. But can someone please explain what a Higgs is? Like, really simply.

Would "Arrested Development" have been cancelled if Twitterers were heard?

The hidden channels are nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower.

Thank you, Chinese researchers.

There have been quite a few controversies over the years.

It's a no-brainer: The government should be spending money on science that nobody else wants to fund.

This robot has an eye for fine vines.

As the first potentially deadly hurricane of the season nears the Gulf Coast, government employees are working around the clock to monitor it and issue warnings. And they're doing it for free, because of the government shutdown.