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Here is the latest Science News from US News and World Report. Ban on drones over Pennsylvania lands gets preliminary OK HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission has given preliminary approval to banning drones over 1.5 million acres...

Today, President Obama announced the 2016 National Week of Making, from June 17–23, marking the second anniversary of the inaugural White House Maker Faire, The event coincides with the National Maker Faire in Washington, D.C., from June 18–19. The...

Hood, California, is a farming town of 200 souls, crammed up against a levee that protects it from the Sacramento River. The eastern approach from I-5 and the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove is bucolic. Cows graze. An abandoned railroad track sits atop...

> There are many facts & fantasies about earthquakes. One interesting thing that we’ve always heard is that smaller earthquakes relieve pressure, which makes it less likely that a much larger quake will occur. That is NOT true, according to...

By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Nearly two years ago, on August 24, 2014, just south of Napa, California, a fault in the Earth suddenly slipped, violently shifting and splitting huge blocks of solid rock, 6 miles below the surface. The underground...