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Scientists have known for decades that Greenland's ice sheet is melting, but they may have underestimated just how much water the second-largest ice sheet on the planet is shedding. New research indicates that a key sect...

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 and, as of 2011, has made more than one million observations. To celebrate its 24th birthday, Hubble revisited the Monkey Head Nebula and a snapped a new picture of the reg...

The cocktail hour at the 110th Explorers Club Annual Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel featured exotic menu options, including alligator meat, goat testicles, jellyfish and worms. The adventurous hors d'oeuvres have be...

A drug made from snail venom is showing early signs of success in numbing pain, according to Agency France Press. The experimental drug, which has been tested on lab rats but not on humans, is considered to be about 100 ...

Graffiti "Internet" on the wall in Vodice, Croatia. Ronald Eikelenboom, via Wikimedia Commons On Friday, the United States announced some very big news in a very boring way. The U.S. government is relinquishing its last ...

The imprint of gravitational waves created shortly after the big bang may offer direct evidence for inflation theory, according to a discovery by the BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole --

The Nobel laureate talks about the apparent detection of gravitational wave signatures in the cosmic microwave background radiation, as well as what it was like to spot the CMB in 1964, putting the Big Bang theory on sol...

Particle physics takes center stage in this upcoming documentary.

Not every fitness tracker includes GPS technology, so who needs it and why?

I’m so lucky that I can do my job on the road, and that I can schedule my work (to an extent) around important personal events. That’s why I found myself in Toronto on Thursday, working in a library, ahead of a plann...

Study finds, again, that omega-3 supplements don't reduce heart disease risk.

Genetically modified bacteria that alter their behaviour according to conditions in the guts of mice could warn of disease and perhaps be part of a cure     

Rebuild Hackett is Popular Science's intrepid DIY ​columnist. Becky Stern English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that men living in anarchy would lead "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" lives. So as much a...

Few people were as thrilled with the big physics news today as physicist Andrei Linde. One of the main authors of inflation theory--the idea that the universe expanded incredibly rapidly just after... --

It turns out that relying on the first flowers of spring may lead researchers to underestimate the full impact of climate change.

New Zealand's flightless birds showed no sign of a population decline until humans arrived, suggesting we really were responsible for their extinction     

First direct evidence of cosmic inflation supports origin theory of the universe. Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang. In the fi...

The first glimpse of primordial gravitational waves is a landmark in our understanding of the universe - but what exactly are these all-important ripples?     

Goggles that display lifelike virtual eyes can make you look wide-eyed and attentive, even if you are fast asleep - but they may freak people out     

All the latest on newscientist.com: evolutionary traps, gravitational waves, clean energy can be cheap energy, missing plane mystery, Iron Man plants and more     

Collect Them All Courtesy Bonhams On April 8, Bonhams will auction more than 300 pieces of space memorabilia. We have our eyes on these items: Apollo 11 Checklist Buzz Aldrin used the list--complete with handwritten note...

The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens.