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Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
A Russian-made Soyuz craft carrying three astronauts has docked with the International Space Station, putting the crew in place for the imminent arrival of the first ever privately owned cargo ship to the orbiting lab.
In a story May 16 about the space shuttle Endeavour, The Associated Press reported erroneously the name of the museum that will house the shuttle. It's the California Science Center, not California Science Museum.
Faced with the prospect of losing both hands and her one remaining foot, a young Georgia woman battling to survive a case of flesh-eating bacteria that has already claimed one leg mouthed the words "Let's do this."
The stroke that disconnected Cathy Hutchinson’s brain from her body has kept her silent and unable to move for more than 14 years. But science is starting to change all that.
Hundreds of thousands of red baby crabs are invading the Cayman Islands in a seasonal migration that residents say is unusually heavy this year.
Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.
Unseasonable weather pushed last month to the fifth warmest April on record worldwide, federal weather statistics show.
A three-man crew blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan Tuesday morning on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a four-and-half-month stay at the International Space Station.
The dark suit and tie Joe Gutheinz wore set him apart from other customers inside a Texas eatery where the usual attire is jeans and cowboy hats.
A scientist accused of stealing secret formulas from a Utah chemistry company has pleaded guilty to a federal computer charge.
The first man to walk on the moon and the last one to sat side by side during a ceremony at Pensacola Naval Air Station.
The number of planets in our galaxy is gigantic. The number is so huge that no one can even put an exact figure on it. In fact, it may even be in the quadrillions! Which means that if an official outer space real estate company were to open up shop and sell planets, each human w …
I built a pinhole projector last night with the hopes that the weather might clear up by Sunday here in South Florida and the kids next door can view it safely. We will only be able to see a partial eclipse here as will most of the US, but seeing something in front of t …
Rare Tyrannosaurus Skeleton to Be AuctionedA nearly complete skeleton of a towering Tyrannosaurus bataaris set to go on auction on Sunday (May 20). The skeleton measures some 8-feet (2.4-meters) tall and 24-feet (7.3-meters) long. This is the first full Tyrannosaurus specimen to go on auction since "Sue," aTyranno …
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Opening in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada the world's first Snolab for the analysis of blackmatter the composition of 25% of the Universe and passing through the terrestrial and organic matter recognized as reality. Situated 2 km. below the …
SpaceX Is Set to Send Its Rocket to the Space Station In space, how quickly does grape juice turn to wine? Two California high school students hope to find out soon. Their experiment is one of 11 aboard a rocket scheduled to blast off early Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to the International Space Station. “We think it …
Nice to see you guys - what took you so long?Blistering heat and scorching wind required the pair to protect every inch of their bodies as they made their way to a spot the turtles share with fearsome predators including tiger sharks, hammerheads, saltwater crocodiles and deadly jellyfish.
NASA's Dawn Uncovers New Secrets About VestaNASA’s Dawn spacecraft has confirmed that one of the largest objects in the Main Asteroid Belt is actually a tiny planet-like body that formed around a molten interior like the Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury. “We now know that Vesta is the only layered planetary buil …
Paralyzed, Moving a Robot With Their MindsTwo people who are virtually paralyzed from the neck down have learned to manipulate a robotic arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach out and grab objects. One of them, a woman, was able to retrieve a bottle containing coffee and drink it from a straw — the first t …
Ancient giant turtle fossil was size of Smart carPicture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen -- the fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant that lived in what is now …
Meet the sarcastic fringehead, an oddly named fish who looks like the PredatorThe sarcastic fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi) is a footlong fish that lives off the Pacific coast of North America. When unthreatened, the fringehead's visage is fairly unremarkable. But if a marine predator (or stray human hand) attempts to dislodge a fringehead from its cre …
They didn't mess with ancient turtle the size of a carColossal bad boy had powerful jaws and used them often in South America 60 million years ago
Tiny quakes may cause some surprisingly big tsunamisScientists look at impact of very-low-frequency events in shallows of subduction zones
Tiny deep-sea life eats meals from dinosaur era Populations of incredibly slow-living microbes live and feed in depths of Pacific
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