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NASA, on Thursday, released an image of a comet that is expected to pass within 84,000 miles of Mars -- less than half the distance between Earth and the moon -- on Oct. 19, and the finding could help scientists determin...

Unless you're a real science geek, chances are you never knew these eight elements even existed. Nonetheless, many of them form the foundations of modern life. Here's a sample of the elements you'd rather not live withou...

Volcano Telescope The gigantic Thirty Meter Telescope will officially be coming to Hawaii after multiple hold ups. The volcanic digs only make it look more super-villain-y. TMT via Gizmodo     

If you're having some memory lapses that worry you, discuss them with your doctor.

The heart is a vital organ that pumps blood through the body, and is part of the body's circulatory system. Here are seven things you should know about the heart.

(Phys.org) --By slowing and absorbing certain wavelengths of light, engineers open new possibilities in solar power, thermal energy recycling and stealth technology.

All the latest on newscientist.com: the quantum death of the universe, how to quiet barking dogs, urban owls, migrating humans, smoking bans and more     

Brain stimulation leads to faster learning; TED marks 30th anniversary with giant digital art display; flying wind turbine poised for test run in Alaska.

(Phys.org) --One of the defining properties of metals is that, the hotter the metal, the worse it conducts electricity. But while most metals obey this inverse relationship between temperature and conductivity in a strai...

In the blue light of the Russian Arctic, scientists captured a rare photo of a polar bear approaching a musk ox carcass Thursday (March 27).

The nests of burrowing owls are packed far more closely in urban settings than in the country, but female owls are not tempted to play away from home     

Patrol planes detected several objects -- possibly from the missing Malaysian jetliner -- floating in the Indian Ocean today, after search efforts were shifted nearly 700 miles to the northeast, according to investigator...

Particle Fever is new documentary that brings viewers inside the home stretch of the decades-long hunt for the so-called "God Particle." Image: PF Productions CERN's search for the Higgs boson has everything a film could...

When a small NASA-funded rocket launched off planet Earth this month in a dazzling liftoff, it wasn't headed for the final frontier. Instead, the rocket had a closer target: the northern lights dancing over Alaska.

Society needs to wake up to problems with body weight, drinking and e-cigarettes, says England's chief medical officer     

In an experimental recreation of "The Crow and the Pitcher" from Aesop's Fables, scientists found that crows actually do have a sophisticated understanding of water displacement.

The first-ever archaeological excavation of the Nazi death camp Treblinka has uncovered the brick walls of a gas chamber and three previously unknown mass graves, revealing the brutality of this concentration camp.

Ten amazing facts about the Great Alaska Earthquake on March 27, 1964.

It's difficult to make a flexible antenna to power a wearable computer because they have to transmit at a fixed bandwidth. But North Carolina State engineers Yong Zhu and Jacob Adams recently managed to build such an ant...

Geneva, 28 March 2014. At a ceremony today at Geneva airport, CERN[1] and ESA signed a framework agreement for future cooperation on research and technology in areas of mutual interest. Future areas may include the devel...

-- Nestor: unravelling the universe's mysteries from the bottom of the sea -- China starts building its second neutrino experiment -- Dark energy hides behind phantom fields -- Breakthrough: Physicists calculate mass of ...

A new Hubble image, captured on March 11, shows what appear to be two jets of dust coming off the nucleus of Comet Siding Spring, which on Oct. 19 will miss Mars by just 84,000 miles -- about one-third the distance betwe...