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Come on, guys, guess! It'll be fun! International Space Station astronaut Chris Hadfield just tweeted this photo of... some sort of tank or something on board the International Space Station. This vital equipment is used...

You can try to find yourself among the 341,817,095 tiny dots on the map. Here's a pretty cool interactive map made by Brandon Martin-Anderson showing, according to census data, every single person in the United States an...

Rather than sending humans into deep space, why not bring the asteroids to us? NASA's (and President Obama's) vision for sending a manned space mission to a distant asteroid by the 2020s doesn't seem to be gaining much s...

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Capturing the emissions of the most polluting fossil fuel is the only hope of reducing climate change

One particular genetically modified salmon is on the verge of successfully navigating the treacherous regulatory waters of the FDA. The agency just issued a draft environmental assessment of the genetically engineered sa...

Flying cars of the future will need safe software at the helm and a simulator is showing what that code needs to do

And that infamously missing "a" was supposed to be there. Neil Armstrong always maintained that he'd thought up possibly the most famous line in American history just after landing on the moon, but in an interview with T...

The vulnerable ice sheets are warming as fast as anywhere else on Earth, threatening massive sea-level rises

Fed the right raw materials, earthworms can churn out tiny chunks of semiconductor material with the ability to fluoresce

Starting this month, the particle collider will smash protons into lead ions in a single magnetic ring to learn more about the early universe

Your mobile phone could soon be a mobile spy. Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used to be measured in decades. But big changes arrive fas...

In another setback for Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, one of its two drilling rigs has grounded on an Alaskan island

Watch the first motion pictures emerge from an analysis of ancient cave drawings

Medic Mike Stroud will monitor expedition members in the coldest season of the coldest place on Earth - and explains just how many things could go wrong

Getting kids on crutches to fall over inside a giant ice cube sounds like cruelty, but it could lead to better cold-weather gear for everyone (full text available to subscribers)

Melting, rather than warming, will be the big climate issue of 2013 as we head to the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment