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Boeing announced its investment in Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Boeing will convert and update Orbiter Processing Facility-1, OPF-1, a former space shuttle facility, for its X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, a "secret" spac...

If climatologists had their way, we'd be living on a diet of nuts and grains instead of beef and pork. Their reasoning? Livestock and the methane they produce are a major source of greenhouse-gas emissions around the glo...

Pompeii's enigmatic history has long captivated archaeologists and tourists alike. While its name often conjures up images of its violent end, new research into Pompeiians daily lives is broadening our understanding of t...

The force that resists as you push a beach ball underwater is responsible for Earth's largest volcanic eruptions. And they are more common than we thought     

In 2013, major automakers either forecasting self-driving technologies or announcing their own included Mercedes, BMW, Nissan, Volvo, Tesla--and now, you can add Ford into the mix. The Michigan automaker said they're wor...

A smoking caterpillar, dog translators and the 2013 Vertebrate of the Year are just a few of our fave Science stories from this week.

(National Radio Astronomy Observatory) The discovery of a millisecond pulsar -- a superdense neutron star -- in a triple system with two white dwarfs gives astronomers the most precise tool yet for studying the gravitati...

(University of Utah) Last year's gigantic landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest nonvolcanic slide in North America's modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and ...

(ETH Zurich) Until recently, how supervolcanos become active remained a mystery. Geologists from ETH Zurich have now used synchrotron X-rays to demonstrate that the pressure generated through the difference in density be...