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The piles of angular, jumbled rocks that mark mountain summits result from powerful explosions sparked by lightning, a new study shows.

Master Carvers are sculpting larger-than-life carnivorous plants and imaginary creatures from record-breaking ginormous pumpkins and other massive fruits at the New York Botanical Garden this weekend.

When it comes to detectors for dangerous chemicals, toxins or nefarious germs, smaller and faster is better. But size and speed must still allow for accuracy, especially when measurements by different instruments must gi...

Paul Sikkel and reggae star Amlak Tafari discuss the recent controversy of naming a parasite after Bob Marley.

From the lab equipment of Marie Curie to the workbooks of Émilie du Châtelet, an exhibition at New York's Grolier Club gathers artifacts and manuscripts from the most significant women in science of the last 400 years.

An exhibition at New York's Grolier Club, "Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine: Four Centuries of Achievement," gathers artifacts and manuscripts from some of the greatest scientific minds. This image gallery featu...

The Story of Modern Single-Streaming Recycling

NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes will observe six galaxy clusters over the next three years during The Frontier Fields project. The trio should be able to spot galaxies that existed just a few hundred ...

Did you know that autoimmune diseases predominately affect women, or that some people have hardly any immune system? Here are 11 surprising facts about the immune system.

Our friends at PopPhoto.com are reporting live from the 2013 PhotoPlus Expo in NYC, the biggest photo trade show in the U.S. They've compiled a list of the best new gear, including the Sony A7 and A7r, the Fugifilm XQ1 c...

Pairs of entangled photons that act as clocks demonstrate for the first time how the passage of time might be an illusion     

The friendliest cats may be the ones who are most often spayed before adoption -- which, over time, could lead to cats becoming less approachable and more feral, some early research suggests.

This striking cosmic whirl is the center of galaxy NGC 524, as seen in this fascinating space wallpaper. This galaxy is located in the constellation of Pisces, some 90 million light-years from Earth. NGC 524 is a lenticu...

The most recent flare, which erupted at 11:03 a.m. EDT Friday, registered as an X-class event, the most powerful type. It clocked in at X2.1 on the space weather scale, beating out the X1.7 flare that the sun fired off j...

The sun erupted with two of the strongest solar flares it can unleash Friday (Oct. 25), just days after firing off an intense solar storm at Earth. The major solar flares registered as X1.7- and x2-class solar events on ...

Researchers at NIH have developed two new microscopes, both the first of their kind. The first captures small, fast moving organisms at an unprecedented rate and the second displays large cell samples in three dimensions...

At least 22 people in Syria - most of them children younger than 2 - may have contracted polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported.

Opportunity is working its way up "Solander Point," the northern tip of a 130-foot-tall hill. The rover is currently studying rocky outcrops that lie between 6.5 feet and 20 feet above the surrounding plains, and it may ...

A strong earthquake of preliminary magnitude 7.3 struck off the coast of Japan today, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

3-D Printer Parts Compared On the left, the parts confiscated by Manchester police. On the right, parts found in other 3-D printers. Gigaom The United Kingdom has restricted gun ownership since a 1996 massacre at a schoo...

NASA's Cassini space probe is getting an exceptional look at the vast liquid lakes of Titan's north pole, where dense winter clouds are finally vanishing thanks to a change in seasons on Saturn's largest moon.

A proposed national park honoring Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez would preserve five sites in California and Arizona that played key roles in his life and the farm labor movement.