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About 50 years after the first fossil teeth were found, scientists have finally described an extinct species of megamouth shark that prowled the oceans about 23 million years ago.

Scientists say they've found evidence that explains how the boy king died, and in the process made a shocking discovery of spontaneous combustion: After King Tut was sealed in his tomb, his mummified body caught fire and...

About 700 people have visited a hospital in southern Albania since June complaining of various symptoms derived from cultivating and processing cannabis.

Fascinating video shows how using opposing ultrasonic speakers can levitate and hold droplets of water against gravity.

A breakthrough in quantum cryptography demonstrates that information can be encrypted and then decrypted with complete security using the combined power of quantum theory and relativity - allowing the sender to dictate t...

Unveiled for the first time last week at the Association of the United States Army expo, the tiny drone is one a soldier can carry and operate as easily as he would a radio.

A man who was stranded in the wilderness was defended from a bear attack by his dog. But a few days later, the man had to eat his beloved companion to survive.

In teen boys, disordered eating may be centered on being muscular or buff, which could mean practitioners miss boys' dangerous behaviors such as taking untested supplements or steroids.

Planets similar to Earth may not be that rare in the galaxy, new research suggests. About one in five sunlike stars observed by NASA's Kepler spacecraft has an Earth-size planet in the so-called habitable zone, where liq...

A previously unknown giant platypus species was discovered in an Australia fossil field, and suggests that the evolutionary history of the platypus is more complex than previously thought.

Rather than using the wheel to transport the colossal stones for miles to the palace of China emperors in the 1500s, workers slid the building blocks on slippery paths of wet ice, according to a newfound manuscript.

Located in the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City was home to the emperors of China for nearly 500 years, during China's final two imperial dynasties, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

A quirk of nature has long baffled biologists: Why do animals push in directions that don't point toward their goal, like the side-to-side sashaying of a running lizard or cockroach? An engineer building a robot would li...

A fossil of an extinct species of platypus has been discovered in Australia, suggesting it was nearly a metre long and chomped on turtles     

Kepler, the king of planet-hunting telescopes, may be dead but a simulation says an Earth-like planet is just 12 light years away     

This thermal image sequence of the lava lake in Halema'uma'u Crater condenses about 12 minutes of motion (which is then repeated three times), showing how the slightly cooler layer of crust constantly cracks and reforms ...

Conservation has as much benefit for communities as it does for nature.

Poaching and habitat loss may be putting elephants at risk of losing their culture -- the learned behaviors that seem to be passed down through generations. And the trauma of separation and displacement can have lasting ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago are developing computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) and quantitative image analysis (QIA) methods for mammograms, ultrasounds and magnetic resonance images (MRIs) to identify specific ...

Google paid tribute to an Indian math prodigy who amazingly could multiply two 13-digit numbers in her head in 28 seconds. Shakuntala Devi was nicknamed the "human computer" and today would have been her 84th birthday.

After getting stung by a wasp, a European garden spider bites off its own leg in this video.

A new way to build membrane-crossing pores, using Lego-like DNA building blocks, has been developed by scientists at UCL, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and the University of Southampton....