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Waco CG-4A Hadrian Glider Rendered By Dassault Systèmes In the background is the old blueprint. The ink did not keep well for posterity, and has run together making it hard to read. Dassault Systèmes The June 6th, 1944...

Female scorpions are more aggressive because their extra weight makes it difficult to sprint quickly, new research suggests

Muskellunges, the biggest freshwater fish in North America, are easier to catch during the full and new moons, likely because they have different feeding habits then.

When Google took credit for a 2012 UFO sighting, the image it offered bore little resemblance to photos at hand. That's because the balloon was a prototype, and one that had gone rogue, says a Google team leader.

These eight weather words are fairly common in meteorology but are not often heard in mainstream weather reporting.

Scientists are closely tracking Greenland's 2014 summer thaw to see if it will repeat 2012's impressive meltdown, or return to a more mundane trend.

Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic are learning to attack hard-to-reach brain tumors by entering patients' skulls through their noses.

It's the first resort for anything from a child's fever to arthritis - but paracetamol (acetaminophen) isn't as safe or effective as we thought it was (full text available to subscribers)

A treatment for dry eye--a burning, gritty condition that can impair vision and damage the cornea--could some day result from computer simulations that map the way tears move across the surface of the eye.

The global scientific society Institute of Physics recently announced that their editors selected a research article by a team from Chapman University's Institute for Quantum Studies "for inclusion in the exclusive 'High...

Making a tabletop particle accelerator just got easier. A new study shows that certain requirements for the lasers used in an emerging type of small-area particle accelerator can be significantly relaxed. Researchers hop...

In 34 wealthy nations, the smog from roads accounts for half of the $1.7 trillion cost of air pollution

A man in Illinois, who was believed to be the third U.S. case of infection with the new and deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, in fact hadn't been infected with the virus, the CDC says.

The human brain accounts for just 2.5 percent of body mass but it consumes a whopping one-fifth of our energy. The question of how and why we evolved such big, energy-hungry brains has long plagued scientists, but a new ...

A trio of astronauts will launch to the International Space Station on Wednesday. The NASA ISS launch live stream coverage begins at 3 p.m. EDT with the launch scheduled for 3:57 p.m. EDT.

Major waves from ocean storms can fracture ice hundreds of miles from its edge, researchers say. These new findings suggest large waves could help explain mysteries about how Antarctic ice behaves in response to changes ...

Hurricane Amanda (now downgraded to a tropical storm) is seen at is strongest in the Eastern Pacific. The storm is the first of the Eastern Pacific 2014 hurricane season, which began on May 15.

Few other places in the West exemplify the changes brought about by climate change more than the Navajo Nation.

Natural climate warming caused huge ice sheet collapses in Antarctica eight times in the past 20,000 years. One iceberg release pushed global sea level up by 6.5 feet (2 meters) in just 100 years.

Three volunteers snacked on mealworms for 105 days as part of China's plan to test life-support systems for deep space travel

Our Milky Way galaxy is a 'magnetic dynamo' generating a generally spiral-shaped field. ESA's Planck spacecraft's edge on view makes the whorls of magnetic field lines appear a bit like a fingerprint.

SPHERES Research engineer D.W. Wheeler and Terry Fong, NASA's director of the Intelligent Robotics Group, flank the SPHERES utility robot with the Project Tango smartphone mounted on the side. Andrew Rosenblum Robots exc...