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Angelina Jolie made headlines when she revealed she'd had a double mastectomy last year. But her cancer-prevention surgeries are not over yet, the actress said recently.

The IAU, the authority that assigns "official" names for all celestial bodies and surface features, will not legitimize any purchased names for cosmic objects and their features, including Martian craters, IAU officials ...

Whether you realize it or not, your resume says a lot more about you thank you think. Here are seven personal details that you might be giving up.

(Queen Mary, University of London) Gas networks in Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine and Belarus are less resilient than the UK during conflicts and crises, according to new research from mathematicians at Quee...

Languages spoken along the Pacific Coast and in Siberia likely share an origin in the Bering Strait, supporting a notion that humans were stuck on the Bering Strait for millennia before colonizing North America.

A rising star in marine conservation tells how she gave up her muddy boots for a scuba suit to protect coastal fisheries in Fiji.

A tabletop device containing ultra-cold atoms may be more sensitive than detectors spread over kilometres, allowing us to finally prove Einstein right     

Invasive, plankton-slurping Asian carp are creeping up the Mississippi River. Ready-to-hatch eggs of the fish were discovered as far north as Lynxville, Wisc.

People with OCD can make risky judgements when decks of cards are stacked against them - a trait they share with gambling addicts     

The diamond contains ringwoodite, which is water-rich but only forms naturally under the extreme pressures of the mantle --

(Phys.org) --Researchers have created a new type of "ultracold" molecule, using lasers to cool atoms nearly to absolute zero and then gluing them together, a technology that might be applied to quantum computing, precise...

The search continues for the 239 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared somewhere off the coast of Southeast Asia. Assuming the plane crashed over the ocean, how long could survivors conti...

A team of University of Innsbruck researchers discovered that even simple systems, such as neutral atoms, can possess chaotic behavior, which can be revealed using the tools of quantum mechanics. The ground-breaking rese...

Usually stormy weather in Britain this winter has apparently taken a toll on dolphins and porpoises. Carcasses of the marine mammals have been washing up on beaches in West Sussex, Dorset and Cornwall.

Speculation about a Bermuda Triangle type incident surrounding the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is based on conspiracy theory, not fact.

Could you really lose weight by just swallowing a pill? Yes, but not in America just yet. Obalon, a new diet pill marketed as a "non-surgical, fully reversible, weight loss option," promises grand weight loss results for...

SpaceX is getting ready for its third International Space Station resupply mission, and it will be the first chance for the company to try out the new landing legs that were installed on the Falcon 9 rocket. Since the ro...

Illustration by Donyung Lee On September 16, 2008, Carl Pike, the deputy head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Special Operations Division, watched live video feeds from a command center outside Washington, D.C.,...

As more and more everyday objects get connected to the internet, there is a pressing need to protect them as we do computers, says Lily Hay Newman     

An ancient whale fossil unearthed in Charleston, S.C., suggests that cetaceans evolved the ability to echolocate their prey very early on in evolution.

A battered diamond that survived a trip from "hell" confirms a long-held theory: Earth's mantle holds an ocean's worth of water.

A historic US-Mexico deal will see 130 billion litres of water infuse the river's parched delta, leaving an explosion of life in its wake