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If you build things, you may well have a truck--but does it fly? The Advanced Tactics Black Knight Transformer does, and it took to the air for the first time recently. The Transformer is basically a scaled up multicopte...

A new study argues that women with wider hips have more one-night stands because they fear childbirth less. But anthropologists say the measurements and assumptions in the study call the findings into question.

A diagram shows the fragmentary remains of Kryptodrakon progenitor found in the famed "dinosaur death pits" area of the Shishugou Formation in northwest China. Illustration by Brian Andres

The Holocaust refers to the Nazi-sponsored murder of the Jewish population of Europe -- and other groups -- during World War II. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is April 28.

Famously sluggish sloths spend most of their lives upside down. But unlike humans, these creatures don't have trouble breathing in that inverted position because their internal organs are fixed in place, new research fin...

Famously sluggish sloths spend most of their lives upside down and take a month to digest a single leaf. They're also uncannily cute.

Sometimes it seems like there's a smartphone app for almost everything, and a ton of them let you track data about yourself. There are apps for tracking your daily calories burned, steps taken and stairs climbed -- and n...

Both black and green tea may have health benefits for the drinker, ranging from improving the brain's working memory to helping reduce the risk of cancer.

Right now, the International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) spacecraft, which was launched in 1978, is floating in deep space. Its fate will depend on the success of a recent crowdfunding project called "ISEE-3 Reboot Proje...

Water may have lasted longer on Mars than previously thought. According to a new study, published in the journal Icarus, liquid may have been present on Mars as recently as 200,000 years ago. The findings come after rese...

The use of Garcinia cambogia -- a popular weight-loss supplement -- may pose health risks to people who are taking certain antidepressants.

If you've spent any time lately walking on busy city sidewalks, you'll know that many people are gazing steadily into smartphone screens as they get around, often at the expense of seeing who and what are right around th...

The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is an annual spectacle of more than 150 science-related events and activities taking place in and around Cambridge, Mass. --

The cane toad is spreading fast across Australia, killing anything that eats it. Yet the feared wildlife catastrophe hasn't happened, finds Michael Slezak (full text available to subscribers)

Two Michigan-based photographers, Terry Hancock of Fremont and Robert Fields of Howell Township, captured this brilliant image of three nebulas and a star cluster on April 11. See how they did it.

Archaeologists excavated a site at New York's City Hall in 2010, unearthing dozens of artifacts, some of them more than 200 years old. The objects are now destined for a new archaeological repository set up by the city's...

People have responded with outrage over the news that aborted fetuses were routinely burned at an incinerator in Oregon that used medical waste to generate electricity.

Night sky photographer Giuseppe Petricca of Pisa, Italy, took these gorgeous images on March 3 of the crescent moon illuminated with earthshine over an Italian citadel. See how he did it.

Complex processes that support all life have been serendipitously spotted in without cells, hinting that life could have started spontaneously in early oceans

Thousands of artifacts unearthed in New York City, ranging from a Revolutionary War-era bayonet to a 19th century douche, are finally getting a home. City officials announced they are creating a repository for New York's...

The Canadian government has blocked the planned launch of a satellite aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket – a step up from NASA's Russia boycott

Long-distance atmospheric connections between the North and South poles are linking weather and climate in distant parts of the globe, according to data from a NASA spacecraft.