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Perseid meteor shower activity may peak Aug. 12-13 this year, but it might be best viewed around now because of the full moon in August, as indicated by NASA. The August supermoon most likely will have Earth's nearest ne...

Since the BP (NYSE:BP) Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig spilled 201 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico four years ago, BP has spent more than $14 billion cleaning up the mess.

Syntactic foams are key to the stealth profile of the U.S.S. Zumwalt.

Two Americans infected with the Ebola virus, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, aid workers from Samartian's Purse, will return to the U.S. from Liberia and receive treatment at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital's sp...

Wildfires across northwest US and Canada are only just getting under way, but smoke-hit areas are already seeing a rise in doctors' visits

Porcupine mating involves short periods of fertility, urinary ejaculation and vicious battles between males. In the end the female controls how things play out, and, yes, she must lay down her quills so a male can safely...

Japan likes robots. And while some Americans raised on a confusing sci-fi diet of Star Wars, Terminator, and iRobot are perhaps a little wary of advanced AI and robotics--Japan simply can't wait for the "robot revolution...

A companion in old age is good not only for people but also for planets. Old Earth-size planets in the universe could be suitable for alien life to thrive should they have companion planets to help them, according to a n...

Scientists working on NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph, or Eunis, mission recently gathered some strong evidence that could explain why the sun's outer atmosphere is much hotter than its surface. ...

The company's latest foray into research aims to create a detailed picture of what it means to be a healthy person

Topological transport of light is the photonic analog of topological electron flow in certain semiconductors. In the electron case, the current flows around the edge of the material but not through the bulk. It is "topol...

Sun, wind and other renewable energy sources could make up a larger portion of the electricity America consumes if better batteries could be built to store the intermittent energy for cloudy, windless days. Now a new mat...

A team of chemists from New York University and the University of Cambridge has developed a method for examining the inner workings of battery-like devices called supercapacitors, which can be charged up extremely quickl...

Low-T is a real condition, but if you have it, TV-pitched supplements are not the miracle cure.

The State Department announced on Friday it was evacuating two U.S. citizens infected by Ebola in West Africa. It did not explicitly specify who the two Americans are because of privacy concerns, but there are only two A...

World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan outlined the challenges in the international fight against Ebola and called for immediate action on Friday. Chan told leaders of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and ...

The outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa that started in late March has spread across four countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria) at a rate that has shocked public health officials. As of J...

Four years ago, excavators in Lower Manhattan unearthed a centuries-old wooden ship buried 22 feet below street level at the construction site of One World Trade Center. Workers were stunned to find the 30-foot vessel hi...