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Just out enjoying your day at the beach when, boom, giant military hovercraft. The worst. This 5.5-ton Russian military hovercraft landed on the beach of the Baltic Sea port city Kaliningrad, between Poland and Lithuania...

Three 3700-tonne mobile launch platforms first used during the Apollo era are up for grabs as museum artefacts, artificial reefs - or scrap metal

For the first time, a series of images captured over 13 years has revealed the spiral motion of a jet of superheated gas shooting from a black hole

The agency released an Armageddon-style video to explain New telescope technology is helping scientists better detect asteroids, but what happens after we find them? One of NASA's goals has been to latch astronauts onto ...

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has upgraded the severity of the situation at Fukushima, reopening questions about how to deal with the radioactive water accumulating at the plant

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What is Iran up to in the Strait of Hormuz? On the island of Qeshm in the Persian Gulf, on the northern-most end of the narrow Strait of Hormuz, Iran is making improvements to a drone base. The information was revealed b...

At Concordia Research Station, 350 miles from Lake Vostok and just over a thousand miles from the geographic South Pole, the temperature reaches -112°F and night lasts for three months, which makes it that much more ama...

There's no dignity in science for a warbler popped head-down in a weighing scale as part of a massive effort to track migrating birds

Plus a Roomba-like robo-artist, life-size assembly-required objects, and more

It's been a good month for physics videos. Two recently posted animated vignettes will let you learn all of physics in less than eleven minutes. Well, maybe you won't quite learn everything, but you can get a pretty darn...

The British Geological Survey has launched an online database of thousands of digitised fossils, captured in 3D for viewing and printing

As "canaries in the coal mine" for a changing environment, a select group of African frogs may help scientists protect endangered frog species far and wide.

An era is coming in which artificially intelligent systems can manage your energy consumption to save you money and make the electricity grid even smarter

Reviews of climate ignorance, confused humidity, noble lawyer rats and more (full text available to subscribers)

The sleeve is equipped with sensors that sit over the wearer's biceps, forearm and hand to track their arm movements and improve their game

You know because when you take care of them, they take care of you in return. They will point you to opportunities in your field, either in their own company or in related ones. They will remind you about invoicing promp...

Facts and information about the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan.