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Pater's Drone Survival Guide Ruben Pater Consider it a rough Audubon guide to the mechanical fauna of battlefields. Created by Amsterdam-based designer Ruben Pater, the Drone Survival Guide is, on one side, a rough bird ...

Scientists were blown away to find liquid water in one of the most unlikely of places. According to new analysis, trapped underneath the frozen landscape of the Greenland ice sheet, where temperatures often hover below z...

The long, narrow fjords carved into the coast of Iceland make parts of country look like Christmas trees from space. This image of the Westfjords peninsula in northwest Iceland combines a series of radar observations fro...

In October, the Federal Reserve rolled out the newest iteration of the venerable $100 bill. It's colorful and chock full of high-tech anti-counterfitting measures like holograms, microprinting and color changing ink. The...

This space wallpaper of Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47 combines radio observations acquired with ALMA with much shorter wavelength visible light observations from ESO's New Technology Telescope.

The second planned International Space Station spacewalk to repair a faulty pump module will take place on Dec. 24, and NASA will cover all the action via a live stream of the mission beginning at 6:15 a.m. EST, 3:15 a.m...

Christmas, in the religious sense at least, centers on one basic tenet of Christian belief: that Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born to a virgin mother. But stories of miraculous conception aren'...

Startup Hampton Creek Foods has been developing plant-based substitutes for eggs. The company's founder Joshua Tetric talks about how egg production is unsustainable with Earth's growing population and how his company is...

Industry agreement may save U.S. consumers $1 billion each year.

Night-shining clouds started glowing high above Antarctica earlier than usual this year, data from a NASA satellite show. These rare types of wispy blue-white clouds, called noctilucent clouds, form when water freezes ar...

Dads are increasingly involved with all aspects of their kids' lives, reports a new survey.

Snowflakes may be unique, but they all form the same way, a new video explains. Learn how a bead of ice becomes a thing of delicate beauty.

What do you do when a giant carnivorous lizard heads straight for you? Try giving it a good scratch behind the ears (full text available to subscribers)     

After more than a year on the red planet, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is getting some routine maintenance. The space agency upgraded Curiosity's software and will soon check the rover's wheels, as the craft has crossed s...

NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity has spent over a year on Mars and the space agency has just completed some routine maintenance. NASA has upgraded Curiosity's software and is going to take a look at the rover's wheels as it h...

The maiden flights of two spacecraft could make or break plans to put humans on the Red Planet within the next few decades     

While a variety of factors influence the delicate structure of a snowflake, the same physical forces are at play to make each and every one of these tiny ice sculptures, explains Duke University's Adrian Bejan.

The world's pre-eminent atheist speculates about why he polarises people, what prompts him to take on religion and whether humans are built to be irrational (full text available to subscribers)     

Even physics can give pointers for energy saving. An international team working together with the Centre for Quantum Materials, run by the Max Planck Society in conjunction with the University of British Columbia (Canada...

Humans are fascinating creatures, capable of love and hate, debauchery and deep contemplation. From political beliefs to social deviation to sexual attraction, here are some of our favorite things science learned about p...

A bevy of adorable baby animals arrived at zoos around the world this year, and from rare panda twins to fluffy swan cygnets, LiveScience is taking a look at some of the cutest.

Kids and dogs understand the force of air, when they stick their hands and heads out of moving cars only to feel them pushed back. It may be invisible, but air is like a see-through net dragging a vehicle back as it stra...