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 Who should live and who should die? Every day, thousands of patients across the United States put their lives into the hands of trained medical professionals, relying on the skill, experience, and intuition of these ex...

Telescopic vision is a thing of the present with the invention, and modification, of new contact lenses and glasses. What will this mean for hundreds of millions of people with vision problems?

ESA's fifth automated cargo ferry completed its mission to the International Space Station today when it reentered the atmosphere and burned up safely over an uninhabited area of the southern Pacific Ocean....

Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Zach LaVine won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest on Feb. 14 after four otherworldly dunks, the first of which referenced the film Space Jam. LaVine came out wearing a number 23 "Toon Squad" jersey,...

Medical researchers are evaluating a revolutionary device which detects lung cancer in early stages. It is hoped that the LuCID (Lung Cancer Indicator Detection) program will lead to a non-invasive method of diagnosing l...

The Solar Dynamics Observatory celebrated its 5th anniversary since its launch with this time-lapse video. It captures one frame every 8 hours starting when data became available in June 2010. The different colors repres...

Now available is this weeks NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material from the February 11 2015 colloquium. This speaker was Sydney Do (MIT) who discussed "An Independent Assessment of the Technical Feasibi...

Noted DJ Zane Lowe, who has headed up BBC Radio 1's popular evening new music show for over a decade, is leaving the broadcaster next month to join Apple, reports BBC News. Lowe has won a number of awards for his radio s...

Sweet and cuddly, you're not, NSA.

Colors, letters and coding? President Obama has new homework for America's students.

Always dreamed of living in a fairytale? Now you can. The Enchanted Forest in British Columbia can be yours for $2.7 million. It comes with a Candy Cane House and amazing treehouse. The post Want to live in a gumdrop hou...

The European Space Agency (ESA) on Sunday said it had destroyed its last supply ship to the International Space Station, bringing a seven-year venture to a successful close.

In the end, ESA's final space station cargo freighter went out in a fiery blaze rather than the "big bang" of its namesake. The ATV-5, christened the "Georges Lemaître" after the Belgian astronomer, plunged into the Ear...

On Feb. 15, 2013, a 66-foot-wide asteroid exploded over Russia and injured more than 1,200 people. Two years later, he origin of the space rock still puzzles scientists.

ESA's fifth automated cargo ferry completed its mission to the International Space Station today when it reentered the atmosphere and burned up safely over an uninhabited area of the southern Pacific Ocean.

February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day....

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released its proposed regulations for the commercial use of drones. Included in the proposal are a 55-pound limit for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The post FAA sets weigh...

The world's largest atom-smasher could help physicists understand mysterious dark matter in the universe, and later this year it may offer a discovery even more fascinating than the Higgs-Boson, researchers say.

French artist Paul Gauguin is well known for his colorful paintings of Tahitian life -- such as the painting that sold recently for nearly $300 million -- but he also was a highly experimental printmaker. Little is known...

Technologically speaking, drones' abilities have all manner of real-world applications.

A few years back, at an event held at Stanford, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg told the audience: "I want to stress the importance of being young and technical. Young people are...

Should we actively direct signals to aliens? Some say yes, while others worry about dire consequences for humanity and their research funding