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A gaping gash just opened up in Africa's Rift Valley. Here's why.

The life of renowned physicist and author Stephen Hawking was celebrated Saturday in English city of Cambridge, with hundreds of well-wishers lining the streets for a glimpse of the hearse carrying his remains to a priva...

A new voice manipulation algorithm allows researchers to visualize the neural codes people use to judge others by the tone of their voices.

Here we go again: another Facebook controversy, yet again violating our sense of privacy by letting others harvest our personal information.

Any day now, the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is expected to fall back to Earth - but it's uncertain where it will crash land. We know that Australia is in the potential zone, and we have been hit before by a falling...

Friends, family and colleagues of British scientist Stephen Hawking will gather Saturday to pay their respects at his private funeral in Cambridge, where he spent most of his extraordinary life.

It seems simple enough: Taking a hard hit to the head can give you a concussion. But, Stanford researchers report March 30 in Physical Review Letters, in most cases, the connection is anything but simple.

After a week of appreciation for each of the four particle contenders, the photon emerged as the winner in the Subatomic Smackdown. This week, four particles finished what they'd started. In February, the proton, photon,...

Skywatchers tonight (March 31) will be treated to the second and final Blue Moon of 2018, just on the eve of Easter. What is this type of moon, and is it actually blue?