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Because one of the formulas for innovation is combining two useful technologies to see if the whole might be greater than the sum of its parts, it was only a matter of time before someone mounted a 3D printer to a drone....

No one has ever seen the moving rocks at Racetrack Playa, but the telltale trails indicate that the stones do shift.

Three regions - Somalia, Nigeria and Pakistan - have armed groups openly hostile to public health efforts, especially immunisation. But only in the latter is this due to the CIA's actions.

If lazing on the beach isn't your idea of summer fun, never fear. We've rounded up a list of science-based summer vacation destinations all over the United States.

An American professor found himself in a situation most people only have nightmares about: 70 feet down in an icy crevasse, miles away from humanity in the Himalayas, completely alone and broken. 44-year-old Western Kent...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have managed to capture images of flickering auroral lights at Saturn's north pole, revealing unprecedented details in the choreography of the dancing glow on the ringed plane...

It’s the physics story that keeps on going and going and going, just like the Energizer Bunny. BICEP2 is still generating headlines as the Backlash to the Big Bang Discovery Gathers Steam. --

Over the next two decades, scientists should have results from the three methods of searching for alien life.

Transparent snails, Greenland's hidden valley's and the Earth's selfie just begin our favorite images for this week.

Are we cyborgs? That depends on what your definition of "is" is.

How can parents identify Hirschsprung disease in a newborn?

The U.S. military relies heavily on civilian researchers, and recruitment starts early.

If you thought the Ellen DeGeneres star-studded Oscar's selfie couldn't be topped, think again. NASA just went one step - or better yet, thousands of miles - further.