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Your monthly roundup of infestations, contagions, and controls from around the web. In outbreak news: On May 9th, Liberia announced it was Ebola-free, which is great news.

Enterococcus faecalis engages in sexual activity but some strains don't match. A team of researchers reveals how pheromones are used to kill unwanted strains.

The Koenigsegg Regera can go from zero to 250 miles per hour in under 20 seconds—without a conventional transmission.

The caves of Cappadocia (also spelled Kapadokya) in Turkey have attracted people for thousands of years. The strange peaks and valleys are now a tourist destination and a …

Carl Sagan famously said we are all star stuff. I went to the telescope where we found that out.

Wither the Battleship! Once-dominant sea-going giants, the famed and feared titans of naval warfare found themselves outclassed, outmatched, and outranged by aircraft carriers in World War II, and they are now mostly a distant memory. Despite the battleship's obsolescence, the U.S. Navy hasn’t entirely given up on the dream of powerful, long-range ship-mounted guns. A new weapon in the works, the aptly named “hyper velocity projectile” promises that far-ranging deadly oomph, and it wants to deliver it at five times the speed of sound. In time, naval railguns will fire the hyper velocity…

Since 2004, scientists have been sticking sensors on seals' heads and sending them out on a mission: to collect detailed information about the oceans surrounding Antarctica.

The iconic speeder bikes from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi may be closer to reality than you thought. Made in Hungary by “a few flight enthusiasts at Bay Zoltan…

NASA is in the midst of building one freaking huge rocket. Dubbed the Space Launch System, or SLS, the heavy lift vehicle will be the space agency’s primary spaceship for…

There's a big dinosaur blockbuster roaring into movie theaters later this year. No, I'm not talking about Jurassic World (though that too is coming up this summer)! Behold …

Rare earth elements are integral to high-tech electronics including Tomahawk missiles and electric cars. But getting these elements out of the ground is anything but…

A long time ago, in an era known as the not-too-distant past, machines made sounds as a byproduct of how they worked. Car engines roared, camera shutters clicked, phones…

Farming is never easy. It's backbreaking work that leaves you squarely at the mercy of the weather, which isn't exactly winning any awards in the reliability department.

Octopus and coconut? It's not a flavor pairing. In the adorable video above you can watch an octopus lugging two coconut shells across the seafloor like a huge load of…

At 10:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, the world ended. The announcement came through a news broadcast in a video trailer for Fallout 4, the latest in a long-running series of…

Even as the largest-ever Ebola epidemic winds down, researchers are looking for drugs that can stop Ebola outbreaks in the future. While some scientists are working to …

Wi-Fi allows us to connect to the Internet by transmitting data through the air itself, but what if it could be used to power our devices wirelessly as well? Scientists at…

If Pluto were still officially recognized as a planet, it would be considered a part of a binary system. Pluto’s moon Charon is so large and so close that the two end up…

Every swimming pool needs an underwater navy. The Seawolf remotely operated submarine, made by TTRobotix, is about to get an upgrade, with a new model capable of carrying…

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