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Want to stick to a ceiling? You'll need gecko toe hairs. Researchers at Oregon State University say the little green lizards can turn on "stickiness" for the toe hairs on the bottoms of their feet, enabling them to adher...

A Nigerian nurse suspected of having Ebola managed to skip quarantine in Lagos to travel nearly 300 miles to see family, officials said Wednesday. She and the 20 people she came into contact with are now under surveillan...

Students fly on 32 parabolic arcs, each with 20 seconds of microgravity in which to conduct experiments. NASA/Microgravity University Three Stanford University students float weightless about 30,000 feet above the Gulf o...

A Navy Performance During Boston Harborfest, 2007 This is very much not the Boston Calling concert, but it's at City Hall Plaza and surrounded by the same brutalist architecture. Dave Kaylor, U.S. Navy, via Wikimedia Com...

Older adults who have trouble sleeping may face an increased risk of suicide, new research suggests.

Two new species of jellyfish have been discovered off the coast of Western Australia. One is surprisingly large. The other is tiny. Both are extremely venomous.

Armchair historians with a knack for reading scratchy handwriting can now help the Smithsonian Institution with a huge effort to preserve thousands of historical letters and journals online.

Kids with immune systems that react strongly to infections could have a higher risk of depression, a new study suggests.

Looking to hitch a ride out of the galaxy? You might want to buy a ticket on a hypervelocity star. These speedy sprites travel between one and two million miles per hour--fast enough to escape the gravitational pull of t...

The world's first known surviving panda triplets were born at the Guangzhou's Chimelong Safari Park on July 29th, 2014. Its being hailed as a 'miracle', given the animal's famously low reproductive rate.

"A THOUSAND-ROBOT SWARM" sounds like the title of a 1950s science-fiction B movie. It is actually, though, the title (or, strictly, part of the title) of a paper in this week's Science. Indeed, the paper in question, by ...

The central North Atlantic is a co-ed baby blue shark nursery, new research finds. Young sharks spend about two years in the region before segregating by sex.

An ancient flying reptile that had a bizarre, butterflylike projection on its head has been unearthed in bone beds in Brazil

Farmers in China have unearthed the nearly complete skeleton of a juvenile armored dinosaur that may be one of the largest ankylosaurs, suggesting this group of beasts grew big early in their evolutionary history.

Archaeologists have found evidence that Egyptians mummified their dead 1,500 years earlier than previously believed.

An ancient flying reptile that had a bizarre, butterfly-like projection on its head has been unearthed in bone beds in Brazil

Last week, a man in Sweden claimed that his pet, a freshwater male eel named ...le, died after having lived for 155 years in a backyard well. But was ...le really the oldest eel to have ever lived or the star of a fish t...

The oldest-known Egyptian burials appear to have been deliberately mummified, suggesting that the practice is far older than Egyptologists had thought

Maryam Mirzakhani is among four young researchers to win the 2014 Fields medals, which are awarded every four years --

Interviews with survivors of an emergency plane landing are helping researchers understand how certain memories may increase the risk for post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study finds.

The powerful earthquake that rocked Chile in April ruptured the earth in a way that suggests major quakes; something similar to the big one that shook the area in 1877 may still hit the region in the future, researchers ...

Fast-spinning small asteroids hold together using the same, weak forces that make flour clumpy. This could make it difficult to protect Earth from them