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Have you caught sight of Mercury yet? This coming week is a good time to try, looking low to the west at dusk. We just managed to to nab it with binoculars for the first time during the current apparition this past Sunda...

A buildup of intensely tangled magnetic energy on the Sun suddenly let go two days ago, unleashing a massive explosion of radiation and super-hot plasma. The radiation explosion was the most powerful solar flare of 2016 ...

Light from a distant galaxy can be strongly bent by the gravitational influence of a foreground galaxy. That effect is called strong gravitational lensing. Normally a single galaxy is lensed at a time. The same foregroun...

Plus, one big question: Can two vastly different businesses click as one to compete with the likes of Google and Facebook?

(Phys.org)--Indian astronomers have recently conducted spectrographic observations of long-period Comet Lovejoy to study its gas emission. They found that this comet showcases an asymmetric behavior at perihelion and an ...

When it comes to human enhancements, Americans are more worried than enthusiastic.

Saturn's A and F rings appear bizarrely warped where they intersect the planet's limb, whose atmosphere acts here like a very big lens....

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe:

Light from a distant galaxy can be strongly bent by the gravitational influence of a foreground galaxy, an effect called strong gravitational lensing. Normally a single galaxy is lensed at a time. The same foreground gal...

Light from a distant galaxy can be strongly bent by the gravitational influence of a foreground galaxy. That effect is called strong gravitational lensing. Normally a single galaxy is lensed at a time. The same foregroun...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft travelling to asteroid Bennu will be equipped with a variety of instruments to provide a full map of the surface.

Amazon.com will be testing the delivery of parcels using small drones in the U.K. in a deal with the government that will allow it to try out new modes of operation such as beyond line of sight flights. The online retail...

Cybersecurity experts and law enforcement authorities unveiled the No More Ransom website, which offers tools that can help ransomware victims recover their data. The portal also aims to increase awareness regarding the ...

AMD for the first time is placing a solid-state drive in a new graphics card in an effort to squeeze every ounce of horsepower out of GPUs for better virtual reality and gaming experiences. The idea is simple: As file si...

Facebook is once again caught in conservative crosshairs after admitting to accidentally blocking users from posting links to Wikileaks files of DNC emails. The incident has once again raised allegations of bias against ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at c...

Tesla's Autopilot software has been in the news quite a bit lately, albeit for all the wrong reasons. When word broke that a Model S with Autopilot engaged was involved in a fatal accident this past May, pundits were qui...

Ceres is covered in countless small, young craters, but none are larger than 175 miles (280 kilometers) in diameter....

A new diagnostic tool that can identify Alzheimer's disease long before the onset of symptoms has been presented by researchers. They add that the tool also highlights the increasing prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in ...

The Rocky of sun-powered airplanes beats the odds. The post Solar Impulse Just Completed Its Momentous Flight Around the World appeared first on WIRED.

Jeff Kepner, the first American to receive a double hand transplant, wishes they could be removed.

USA TODAY's Matt Krantz explains why Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was awarded so much money as the company's fortunes waned.