The Terra dos Gigantes (Land of the Giants) geopark in Uberaba, located in the Triângulo Mineiro region of Minas Gerais state, has been designated as a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) World Geopark. »

NIH and NSF jointly fund new research centers to better understand how ocean-related exposures affect people’s health. »

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins, and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage. »

Dr. Katherine Bemis of the National Systematics Laboratory recently helped describe a new species of fish, the papillated redbait. »

Chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have invented a more efficient way to extract lithium from waste liquids leached from mining sites, oil fields and used batteries. »

An international team of scientists found a way to improve battery design that could produce safer, more powerful lithium batteries. »

The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads. »

Imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft provides close-ups of intriguing features on the hellish Jovian moon. »

Cambridge researchers have identified genetic variants in two genes that have some of the largest impacts on obesity risk discovered to date. »

Researchers have shown that dangerous cysts, which form over time in polycystic kidney disease (PKD), can be prevented by a single normal copy of a defective gene. »