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An asteroid with the diameter of two school buses is scheduled to pass the Earth at a rather close distance on Wednesday. Named 2014 DX110, the 98-foot asteroid was discovered by the Pan-STARRS 1 survey on Feb. 28, accor...

If you've seen the 1989 film "Back to the Future Part II," you've at least considered how awesome hover-boarding would be, if not full-on fantasized about cruising around every day on a flying skateboard. Well if a new Y...

A bottle of LSD from a Swiss clinical trial for end-of-life anxiety in cancer patients conducted in 2007. Wikimedia Commons The first controlled study of LSD in more than 40 years has been published.

Let's be real. It can be embarrassing to go to a pizza joint, walk up to the cashier, and order an extra large Hawaiian pizza with garlic bread crust and a side of extra spicy buffalo wings. But with Pizza Hut's new digi...

This week's physics central podcast is about hot and cold. Volcanoes--which spew material that reaches thousands of degrees Fahrenheit--can actually cool the planet. Volcanoes eject aerosols that reflect sunlight, and cl...

The Hubble Space Telescope has witnessed a violent interstellar drama, stunning photos of which have just been released.

Denmark's recent ban on ritual slaughter where animals haven't been stunned beforehand is raising alarm in Muslim and Jewish communities there and across the world.

As climate change accelerates ice melting and sea levels continue to rise, scientists warn that not only does global warming endanger coastal economies and put entire island nations at risk of disappearing - it also jeop...

Alzheimer's disease may be the third major cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer, according to a new study

The largest study yet of online activism on Facebook suggests "likes" have little to do with commitment to distant causes.     

Different regions of the United States are more susceptible to earthquakes than others, and now a new map helps pinpoint the regions most prone to seismic shock waves.

Despite being thought of as forbidden in Islam, Nomadic populations in Saudi Arabia and the surrounding regions ate lizard, new archaeological remains suggest.

Hungarian programmer József Fejes has won a competition for software that creates beautiful images containing every colour made using red, green and blue     

Tim Webber won the Oscar this week for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for his work on Gravity --

The only vaccine against tick-borne Lyme disease was pulled from the market because of side effects in humans. But could it still be useful?     

The dry conditions in California have only worsened winter haze, so regulators are implementing burn bans to prevent soot from accumulating.

Cosmic ray detectors under the Pyramid of the Sun in the ancient city of Teotihuacan reveal it is in danger of crumbling away     

Though Barbie boasts more than 130 careers on her resume from aerobics instructor to astronaut, the imagined job prospects for girls who play with the dolls may look quite different.

Incredible video shows a gang of orcas attacking a lone blue whale off the coast of California.

Radio waves are used for many measurements and applications, for example, in communication with mobile phones, MRI scans, scientific experiments and cosmic observations. But 'noise' in the detector of the measuring instr...

A coal-fired power station in Canada is launching carbon capture and storage on a commercial scale. Could this make burning fossil fuels guilt-free?     

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