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NASA is accepting proposals for its upcoming Asteroid Redirect Mission. The new initiative will attempt to capture and redirect an asteroid to an orbit around the moon, and the space agency is offering $6 million in tota...

NASA has released a new panorama of the Milky Way galaxy was created using two million photos over the course of 10 years. The result of the hard work is a 360-degree view of the Milky Way that can be explored at home on...

What we know about statins comes almost entirely from commercial interests. So what we take for knowledge about their harms and benefits is actually information designed to optimize the drug makers' responsibility to max...

Continents grow like onions, with rings of younger rocks added layer by layer to an ancient landmass. A new model seeks to explain how subduction zones sweep in this new crust and then recover from the collision.

A new picture has emerged of the rise of oxygen on Earth. A growing body of data suggests the earliest photosynthesis evolved 600 million years before the Great Oxidation Event.

UK researchers found the risk of dying from heart or respiratory problems increased by more than 10 percent for every 1.8-degree-Fahrenheit increase in temperature during the summer months between 2001 and 2010.

India pushed up the Himalayas when it hit Asia, but it now seems the mountains only grew so exceptionally tall because Asia was scrunched by the impact     

These two models show the margins of continents incorporating new material as one plate drives into another. (looped)

The third episode of "Cosmos," airing on Fox on Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT, will feature Neil deGrasse Tyson chasing a comet. "When Knowledge Conquered Fear" takes viewers back into space and on a journey through the solar sys...

A third set of images, this one from a French satellite, show potential objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean that could be linked to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which has been missing since March 8, when it d...

Potential treatment for deadly brain cancer; climate change shrinks crops; banking your own stem cells just in case.

From echos of the Big Bang to the breathing of the Amazon forest, we found some super cool stories in Science this week!

(University of Toronto) Scientists have a better way to study human proteins -- large molecules that are part of every cell in the body -- thanks to a new technology developed by University of Toronto researchers. The te...

(Publicase Comunicação Científica) A new study published ahead of print in The FASEB Journal shows that heparin interactions with the terminal domains of a prion protein impair its conversion into scrapie prion, preve...

(GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre) Volcanoes often develop outside the rift zone in an apparently unexpected location offset by tens of kilometers has remained unanswered. An international team of scien...

(Florida State University) Groundbreaking work by a team of chemists on a fringe element of the periodic table could change how the world stores radioactive waste and recycles fuel.

An Ebola outbreak in Guinea has killed at least 34 people and sickened 49, and some are worried it may have spread to neighboring Sierra Leone.

A computer system has been developed that can tell whether facial expressions of pain are real or fake - with possible implications for those of us who fake the occasional "sickie."