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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is studying hypersonic vehicles that would use the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE), which is intended to power the Skylon space plane, AFRL officials said.

The number of people dying in West Africa from the ongoing Ebola outbreak is poised to surpass the total number of people to ever have died from the virus in just 10 days, according to World Health Organization figures. ...

Traces of one of the universe's first stars was detected in an ancient star in the halo surrounding the Milky Way galaxy, a new study reports. The findings, published in the journal Science, describe how scientists disco...

Experience with Ebola survivors in Africa suggests that the two American Ebola patients who recovered from the disease are now immune to the strain of the virus that infected them.

Map shows notable features and facts about Antarctica.

Nanometre-scale gold particles are intensively investigated for application as catalysts, sensors, drug delivery devices, biological contrast agents and components in photonics and molecular electronics. Gaining knowledg...

Smile Wikimedia Commons In 2011, British wildlife photographer David Slater was traveling through the jungle in Indonesian when a crested black macaque grabbed his camera and started snapping selfies. Somebody posted the...

It’s Friday and that means it’s time to share stories and tech that we’ve been reading, thinking about, and passing round within the Singularity Hub team this week: Omote: Real-time Face Tracking and Projection Map...

Arctic sea ice is melting fast, having lost about 1 million square miles since the 1970s, but experts are still figuring out what factors, such as cloud cover, are speeding or slowing the ice's demise.

A man in Europe who tried to "breathe fire" wound up in the emergency room with pneumonia, after inhaling and swallowing the fuel called paraffin.

An experiment meant to recreate conditions soon after the Big Bang are revealing hints of a long-predicted, but never spotted, particle known as an extra-heavy strange baryon.

This new generation walking stick combines the benefits of a whitestick with the guidance of a seeing-eye dog without the need for long, expensive trainings or the necessary clean up.

(Phys.org) --Using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron, scientists have developed a new, cutting-edge technique enabling them to visualize the inner-workings of electronics.

Renowned scientist and conservationist Patricia Wright battles to save one of the world's most endangered primates.

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Drone Zones At Human Level Mitchell Sipus A century ago, as cars first emerged into the world, cities and laws that were designed for horses suddenly had to adapt to a whole new presence in their space. Cities didn't kno...

The drought-stricken U.S. West is guzzling so much groundwater that the Earth's crust is starting to "rise up like an uncoiled spring," California scientists said on Thursday. In some places, the Earth has lifted by more...

Psychoactive stimulants such as caffeine and magic mushrooms may to some extent revert the brain to an infant-like state

Boeing says that to get the U.S. military's missile defense system performing up to par, engineers had to solve an "impossible" problem.

The Atlantic and Southern oceans may be responsible for the slowdown in the acceleration of global warming—but not for long --

The National Park Service is celebrating its 98th anniversary on Monday (Aug.25) by waiving all national park entrance fees.

When you think of botox, you are more likely to imagine it smoothing skin than fighting cancer, but the toxin could be effective against stomach tumours