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A mysterious mummy that sat in a German collection for over a century was once an Incan woman who was murdered with blunt-force trauma to the head, new research suggests.

A mysterious mummy that sat in a German collection for over a century was once an Incan woman who was murdered with blunt-force trauma to the head, possibly in a ritual sacrifice, new research suggests.

A black hole is eating faster than a cosmic speed limit allows, suggesting that small black holes may play a larger role in galaxy evolution than realised     

Kellogg's tasty pastry, the Pop-Tart, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Since Pop-Tarts first came onto the breakfast scene in 1964, they have spurred some crazy ideas. From Pop-Tart Ice Cream Sandwiches to flyi...

This massive, 530-pound (240 kilograms) deep sea diving suit, called the Exosuit, is a one-of-a-kind pressurized diving suit designed to let scientists observe sea life at depths as far 1,000 feet (305 meters).

Time to get your weird on. Being confident enough to pull off dressing differently makes other people think you've got it going on.

The U.S. government's proposed changes to nutrition labels are an important and positive step, and could even spur food companies to give consumers healthier options, but the changes are only part of what's needed to ste...

Snow, a juveniles harp seal found in critical condition last month, made his way back into the Gulf of Maine yesterday (Feb. 26) after a month of rehabilitation.

Wearable generators can supply portable, clean energy for powering our mobile devices.

Marine biologists and engineers have now developed a 530-pound marine Exosuit that's designed for ocean depths down to 1,000 feet. The Exosuit will help researchers study bioluminescent and biofluorescent marine life.

A daring speculation offers a potential way forward in one of the great unsolved problems of mathematics: the behavior of the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow --

Researchers at the University of Hawaii and the University of Tokyo outfitted sharks with sophisticated sensors and video recorders to measure and see where they go, how they get there, and what they do once they reach t...

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint effort between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, blasted off aboard an H-2A rocket from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center today at 1:37 p...

A recent study that examined the remains of a 500-year-old South American mummy suggests she was killed by blunt force trauma to the skull. PLOS ONE

NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are teaming up for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The satellite launch will take place from JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center and the live stream begins ...

Early-life isolation -- a common practice on dairy farms -- may be depriving baby cows of the opportunity to reach their full potential.

The first comprehensive and detailed map of the mouse cortex brings scientists a step closer to understanding the brain connection problems that seem to cause diseases such as autism and schizophrenia.

The founding population of American Indians may have been trapped in a region around the Bering Strait for 10,000 years before colonizing the Americas, a new paper argues.

Inner Workings Jamie Grill/Getty Images Before a computer can load its operating system and locate drivers for its components, it must recognize that it has been turned on at all. This task falls to a relatively simple d...

Oil from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the largest in U.S. history until the Deepwater Horizon spill, has been found nearly untouched in small pockets along Alaska's coast.

The remains of a gladiator school have been uncovered in Austria and the researchers have used the information to virtually recreate the school in 3D.

A study comparing siblings fed either by breast or bottle hints that the long-term benefits of breastfeeding may have been distorted by social factors