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The solar storms currently affecting Earth have created stunning northern lights displays for skywatchers.

Researchers from NASA and Washington University will launch a telescope called X-Calibur to measure X-rays from black holes.

Chad Blakley (://lightsoverlapland.com) captured a vibrant display of Northern Lights over Abisko National Park in Sweden on Sept. 12, 2014. They were generated by a KP-7 geomagnetic storm that hit Earth as a result of t...

Exoskeletons have made news in recent years for creating super-soldiers and allowing wheelchair users to walk again. Now, the US Navy will test and evaluate Lockheed Martin's FORTIS exoskeletons for industrial applicatio...

A three-fingered hand with a keen sense of touch could probe the murky depths when other sensors fail, helping to fix problems at deep-sea oil and gas wells

The central mystery of quantum mechanics is that small chunks of matter sometimes seem to behave like particles, sometimes like waves. For most of the past century, the prevailing explanation of this conundrum has been w...

Volcanoes, tornadoes, dancing lights and a full harvest moon are just a few of our favorite images from this week in Science.

A study linking daily cannabis use to suicide got a lot of coverage earlier this week, but, Michael Slezak says, correlation does not mean causation

Anthropologist Natasha Schüll seeks to understand our connections and responses to machines and technology.