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With 2013 quickly coming to a close, it's shaping up to be one of the driest calendar years on record for many places in California.

Iowans were treated to something spectacular Thursday night when a large streak of light shot across the sky above Des Moines. Hundreds of reports came rushing in to the American Meteor Society after the bright light cau...

A catalog of organisms living deep below the Earth's surface could help scientists understand the limits of life on harsh planets beyond our own, and may even reveal secrets about life's origins here on Earth.

Occasionally, you hear tell of a hale hundred-year-old who drank and smoked her way through life--or the reverse, a health nut who tragically fell prey to a killer disease at 40. Though diet and exercise influence health...

Errors in Science, ancient vineyards and more make up our cool Science this week.

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) Earth's mantle temperatures during the Archean eon, which commenced some four billion years ago, were significantly higher than they are today. According to recent model calculatio...