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Archaeologists argue that drought caused by climate variation played a major role in the decline and fall of Mayan civilization.

Like a lot of suds on the top of your beer pour? Scientists have found a gene for that.

Star formation is now 30 times lower than at its peak 11 billion years ago.

Some methods that people have suggested for preventing, or stopping, a hurricane--and why they might not work

An open letter from PopSci to President Obama about science and the future

A disaster simulation that's a lot of fun.

A fawning Bravo reality show skewers Silicon Valley more effectively than anyone else who's tried (and many have tried).

An animation by Northeastern University's LazerLab shows what's being donated, and where.

Looking around for methane in Gale Crater, Curiosity found a whole lot of nothing. But that doesn't dash hopes of finding evidence of life on Mars some day.

What do you need to rig an election? A basic knowledge of electronics and $30 worth of RadioShack gear, professional hacker Roger Johnston reveals. The good news: we can stop it.

Biocomputers make maps, run logic gates, perform binary calculations and more.

Petroleum tanks damaged during the storm spilled an estimated quarter million gallons of oil into New Jersey waterways. Now crews are working around the clock to clean it up.

Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He's also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change.

Scientists sequenced the barley genome recently. Will this make for better beer? Or are the implications more nuanced?

When spacecraft careen around Earth for a gravity boost, they mysteriously speed up, and physicists want to know why.

Brain scans find that the two modes are mutually exclusive.

Hurricane Sandy wasn't a "superstorm." Not because it wasn't a "super" "storm," but because "superstorm" is an imaginary scare-term that exists exclusively for shock value.

But it's just the anticipation--actually doing the math doesn't hurt.

The white stuff can stick around and ruin, well, pretty much everything. That puts the officials trying to fix it on a ticking clock.

Bats are helpful insect eaters and providers of tequila, not just Halloween decorations. But their connection to the holiday is fitting.