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"Gravity" is the Hollywood example of a real problem many space agencies are trying to deal with. Space junk, dead satellites and other debris pose a threat to current and future missions and the European Space Agency ha...

People who eat a vegetarian diet tend to have healthier blood pressure levels than those who don't, according to new research.

Being a twin or a triplet may increase a person's risk of developing anorexia, a new study from Sweden suggests.

Never before seen in biology, a state of matter called "disordered hyperuniformity" has been discovered in the eye of a chicken.

There's a reason nipples are considered one of the most erogenous zones of the human body. These sensitive body parts are easily stimulated and easily irritated, and there are many reasons why a person might feel nipple ...

New research suggests that any increase in cancer risk due to radiation exposure after 2012 is likely to be so small that it is not detectable.

Last September, two telescopes captured a spectacular flash of light on the moon's surface lasting more than 8 seconds -- the longest and brightest flash ever confirmed on the lunar surface. Scientists have now attribute...

The black-tailed antechinus is a shrew-like marsupial that gives its life for sex. Males of the new species, discovered in southeastern Australia, have sex for hours and exhaust themselves in hope of siring many offsprin...

A "microbial Pompeii" has been found on the teeth of 1,000-year-old human skeletons. Just as volcanic ash entombed the citizens of the ancient Roman city, dental plaque preserved bacteria and food particles on the skelet...

An aquatic salamander feared to have disappeared from Mexico's lakes, its only-known natural habitat in the wild, has been spotted again. Researchers sighted two of the salamanders, known as an axolotls, but did not capt...

A new analysis of this stunning zircon crystal - the oldest known material formed on Earth - sheds new light on our planet's history     

To some viewers, it looks like a landing strip for extraterrestrial spacecraft -- or perhaps the portal to a parallel universe, if not an ancient monument to a benevolent deity who had a keen eye for design and symmetry.

A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion as seen in this amazing space wallpaper -- dubbed a "canyon of fire" by NASA officials.

Britain's wettest winter on record has saturated the ground, causing a higher number of sinkholes than usual to open up, swallowing cars and crumbling houses.

Scientists on the CDF and DZero experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that they have found the final predicted way of creating a top quark, completing a pictu...

The PPlanter is a public convenience with a biofilter to treat waste in an eco-friendly way – and it looks good too     

The world's largest and deepest underwater-walking robot, the 1,400-pound Crabster CR200, was designed to scuttle along the seafloor like a monstrous crustacean. Its possible vocations include scientific explorer, commer...

Marvel at readers' enchanting science-themed Lego creations, from a glowing fetus to a moon landing     

So video games are addictive--this we know. It comes down to dopamine, one of the brain's basic signaling molecules. Emotionally, we feel dopamine as pleasure, engagement, excitement, creativity, and a desire to investig...

The United States braces itself for another bout of Arctic air next week. We explain where that air is coming from and why it is considered part of what is known as a "polar vortex."

When deciding what materials to use in building something, determining how those materials respond to stress and strain is often the first task. A material's macroscopic, or bulk, properties in this area--whether it can ...

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