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An image, released by NASA's Earth Observatory, shows pulses of laser light hitting Arctic sea ice -- the ice that forms and floats in Arctic waters.

Even planets can get a bad case of tinnitus, according to a new study that explains Earth's mysterious, never-ending hum. Turns out, ocean waves are the culprit behind these mysterious tremors that make the Earth ring li...

The Forerunner 920XT is the cream of the crop when it comes to multisport GPS watches.

Few among us may know what magnetic domains are but we make use of them daily when we email files, post images, or download music or video to our personal devices. Now a team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Ener...

An extract made from the marijuana plan could provide some relief to people with severe epilepsy, according to a new study.

Teaching people when and where to swim (to avoid sharks), and improving the emergency response to shark bites, can significantly reduce the number of deaths.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a powerful particle accelerator for nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, just shattered its own record for producing pola...

With two partially successful landing attempts of its Falcon 9 booster, the private company inches closer to its goal of making a fully reusable rocket 0 0 1 26 154 Group Technology... --

Though a slim majority of Americans favor marijuana legalization, Americans are still sharply divided on the health benefits and risks of the drug, a new survey suggests

The Wicked Witch of the West can thank facial evolution for her iconic, pointy chin, new research suggests. And so can everyone else. Turns out, human "domestication" may explain the prominent feature.

A throng of giant flying fish that catapulted themselves towards oncoming rowers were not coordinating a fishy assault but were probably just spooked by the boat, science suggests.

The private spaceflight firm SpaceX launched its sixth cargo mission to the International Space Station, but failed a test of a reusable rocket

The dark universe is coming into view, thanks to new maps that chart the location dark matter in the cosmos. The new maps, released today, show how dark matter affects the landscape of regular matter, and provides hints ...

Would an all-female crew make sense on a deep space journey to Mars? Would the spacecraft rotate to simulate gravity? What's being done now to prepare for such a journey?These were some of the questions addressed last Th...

A new Ebola vaccine study starting in Sierra Leone will test the vaccine in thousands of people who are working to fight the epidemic, health officials said today.

The government's action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is insufficient, and is exposing its own citizens to dangerous situations, plaintiffs claim

The giraffe born at the Dallas Zoo last week is a healthy baby girl. The spindly-legged bundle of joy weighs 139 lbs. (63 kilograms) and stands 5 feet 10 inches (1.8 meters) tall, a spokeswoman said.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will take the most thorough survey ever of the Southern sky. Today a group will gather in northern Chile to participate in a traditional stone-laying ceremony. The ceremony marks the b...

Composite materials used in aircraft wings and fuselages are typically manufactured in large, industrial-sized ovens: Multiple polymer layers are blasted with temperatures up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit, and solidified to ...

CNBC and Singularity University are partnering to present Exponential Finance, a two-day conference in New York City exploring the game-changing technologies poised to disrupt business and the financial world. Singularit...

Women who develop gestational diabetes before a certain point in their pregnancy have a higher chance of having a child with autism, new research shows.

For our modern, technologically-advanced society, in which technology has become the solution to a myriad of challenges, energy is critical not only for growth but also, more importantly, survival. The sun is an abundant...