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Hurricane Odile, packing 100 mph winds, raked the Baja California peninsula Monday, injuring scores of tourists and residents, forcing the evacuation of thousands and leveling huts and luxury hotels alike. As of 5 p.m. P...

A crescent-shaped monument recently unearthed near the Sea of Galilee in Israel predates biblical landmarks by a few thousand years, archaeologists say. The massive stone structure, which they originally thought was part...

NASA was set to make a "major announcement" Tuesday on the space agency's Commercial Crew Program on the return of manned launches to the U.S. in 2017. The Wall Street Journal reported Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA) will edge out ...

A new international survey reveals how nations rank when it comes to well-being of their residents.

A new international survey, the Gallup-Healthways Global Well-Being Index, reveals how 135 countries rank when it comes to the well-being of their residents.

In the 1998 movie 'Armageddon,' an asteroid the size of Texas threatens to collide with Earth in 18 days. Despite its entertainment value, the film is fantastically inaccurate, astronomer Phil Plait said.

Researchers have discovered the sites of three wrecks off the coast of San Francisco: the 1910 SS Selja shipwreck, an unidentified early steam tugboat wreck and the 1863 wreck of the clipper ship Noonday.

Harsh conditions after the dino-killing meteor impact favored fast-growing plants, nudging forests toward a new pecking order

With more content than ever before, its hard to extract what's preferred from what's promoted. Two books explore the effect digital media has on us

Last month, General Electric (GE) consulting presented the results of a U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) sponsored study testing if wind turbines can be controlled to manage the... --

A team of researchers at Boston University and Stanford University School of Medicine has developed a new model to study the motion patterns of bacteria in real time and to determine how these motions relate to communica...

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Jake VanderPlas, a data scientist who worked on the Graphic Science illustration in the October issue of Scientific American magazine. --

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A group of marine archaeologists kicked off a mission this week to explore an ancient shipwreck hundreds of feet below the Aegean Sea -- not with a sub, but with a semi-robotic metal diving suit that looks likes a throwb...

Hurricane Odile became a tropical storm Monday evening as it crawled north along Mexico's west coast but will continue to bring strong winds and heavy rain to central portions of the Baja California peninsula.

An audit report from NASA's inspector general criticized the space agency's Near-Earth Object program, saying it will miss the goal of finding 90 percent of potentially hazardous asteroids by 2020. The report, "NASA's Ef...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, have developed an algorithm to make a robot run and jump like a cheetah, the planet's fastest animal on land. According to the researchers, the robotic che...

A new particle detector has made it possible to generate three entangled photons that could be used in quantum telecommunication.

If you like your science with a cup of coffee, a pint of beer or a raucous crowd, these events may be for you. With an explosion of informal science events popping up around the world, it’s easier than ever to find way...

Not long ago, robots were largely confined to books and movies. Then they started showing up on YouTube, and robot fear became a viral thing. There was that terrifying video of a Boston Dynamics robot wearing fatigues an...

The Great Plains didn't evolve in a vacuum. Ancient rodents helped shape the ecosystem we know today. Fossil burrows are helping scientists figure out how.

The Ebola virus is currently causing a devastating and unprecedented outbreak in West Africa, but could the virus create a doomsday scenario by becoming airborne?