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Combining Nordic culture and space travel, Viking Cruises officially welcomed its fifth ocean ship, Viking Orion -- named after the prominent constellation and in honor of retired astronaut Anna Fisher.

Students are building and launching Alka-Seltzer rockets in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record ... again.

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Meteorologists have known for some time that rainfall forecasts have flaws, as failure to take into account factors such as evaporation can affect their accuracy. Now, researchers from t...

A team of Japanese scientists led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University's Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, has discovered a mineral known as moganite in a lunar meteorite found in a hot deser...

Neuroscientists have located the cells that help reprogram long-lasting memories of traumatic experiences towards safety, a first in neuroscience.

If there's one thing that Jurassic Park taught us (besides the fact that Jeff Goldblum is a national treasure and should be cherished) it's that ancient tree sap is really really good at preserving bugs. Despite the weal...

Is Ether the new bitcoin?

An accordion-shaped nanomaterial is the key ingredient in a sticky, self-healing gel that might one day drive help people with paralysis to communicate

News An electrically conductive hydrogel that takes stretchability, self-healing and strain sensitivity to new limits has been developed at KAUST... Contributed Author: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

With all the hot water Facebook has been in for the role of news on its platform, it looks like the social media giant is getting what it wanted. A new study from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found t...

Cosmic rockers Coheed and Cambria are well-known for their out-of-this-world concept records, but they came back down to Earth for their last album, "Color Before the Sun" -- except for one big leap to Mars.

Astronaut Peggy Whitson, who has spent more time in space than any other American, is retiring from NASA effective today (June 15), agency officials announced.

The New York State Public Service Commission is doing something that just about every consumer wishes they could do to their internet service provider: telling them to actually provide the service promised or get bent. T...

There's still work to do, but we're making progress. It's often hard to believe we're getting closer and closer to a 5G reality, but with so much work being done on all fronts, that's a future we're rapidly approaching. ...

Usually when physicists perform quantum entanglement between particles--whether it be qubits, atoms, photons, electrons, etc.--the particles are distinguishable in some way. Only recently have physicists demonstrated the...

Google released its annual diversity report today and though strides have been made in some areas, in others, the company has shown little improvement. Globally, Google is 69.1 percent male and in the US 53.1 percent of ...

DNA tests can be easily fooled and different tests may draw wildly different conclusions about the supposed heritage of participants. One thing the current rash of these startups have in common, however, is how their sal...

It's been over six weeks since lava fissures began erupting on Hawaii's Big Island, and there's still no end in sight. New videos taken by the US Geological Survey reveal the dramatic extent to which the encroaching lava...

At the last World Cup, four years ago, you couldn't watch the football (soccer) action in 4K live at home, and HDR TV standards weren't even a thing. The biggest single sporting event in the world is usually used as a TV...

Space tourists could soon celebrate their arrival in the final frontier with a few glasses of bubbly.

When Apple's original iPhone first debuted in 2007, it was the simple alternative to a market full of overcomplicated smartphones. Platforms like Symbian, BlackBerry OS, and Windows Mobile were a mess. Sure, they got the...

Adobe reported its Q2 FY'18 earnings yesterday and the news was quite good. The company announced $2.2 billion in revenue for the quarter up 24 percent year over year. That puts them on an impressive $8.8 billion run rat...