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The tardigrade is only one of many animals that has amazing and extreme abilities, according to a new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City.

Many poor souls have been victims of April Fools' Day jokes, and science -- with it's reputation for achieving stunning and sometimes fantastic feats -- makes for some of the best fodder.

Antarctic octopuses survive subzero temperatures because of the blue pigments in their blood, a new study finds.

The California snowpack is at a record low, and the state announced mandatory water restrictions today.

The astronauts living and working on the International Space Station are eye to eye with a deadly super typhoon as it heads toward the Philippines.

Stunning new global maps of rain and snow pummeling the planet were released by NASA today.

The world's oldest person, a 117-year-old woman in Japan named Misao Okawa, died today. Okawa was born on March 5, 1898, and died of heart failure just a few weeks after celebrating her birthday.

If successful, the ambitious new experiment may overshadow even the Large Hadron Collider. Movie science is often a source of chagrin for actual researchers. But recent events suggest that we may be entering a new era of...

The orbiting Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Constellation quantifies precipitation across the entire Earth. Data 'swaths' from 10 satellites overlay to form NASA's animated Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals f...

The name sounds like something Marvin the Martian might have built, but the "nanomechanical plasmonic phase modulator" is not a doomsday device. Developed by a team of government and university researchers, including phy...

Physicist Jon Butterworth will present a free live Webcast on the restart of the giant particle accelerator   --

Could the traditional lens be defunct? A radical rethink of photography means you can refocus, reshape and relight your snaps after you've taken them (full text available to subscribers)

Night owls may enjoy staying up late, but their belated bedtimes may be a detriment to their health in middle age, a new study finds.

The way we call emergency services is out of date. A new app needs just a tap to give responders the information they need to send help

Tiny needles that inject genetic material into the heart of cells could help generate new blood vessels around transplanted organs

The individual would have fallen down a narrow shaft in the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa some 3.7 million years ago, the researchers say. This left behind a nearly complete skeleton that could yield key insights on...

Take a stroll through some of humanity's ancestors, including a relative dubbed Little Foot, which scientists have just found lived at about the same time as famed Lucy, an australopithecine.

Even though some polar bears are hunting on land more often in areas hit by shrinking Arctic sea ice, a diet of bird eggs and berries can't sustain these huge animals, a new study finds.

Using quantum chemical calculations, they were successful in interpreting the data and obtaining a detailed picture of the intermediates and reaction kinetics. The work, which has now been published in Nature, could prov...

In an underground cave in Israel, archaeologists unearthed 3,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts that had been spared by tomb robbers.

Many experts studying the topic of automation believe that the current rate of advancement is leading us into a future with less and less available jobs. Maybe that's a good...

Careening toward the sun, Jupiter cleared the way for Earth to form—with help from Saturn, too --