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ESA's Proba-3 just achieved a world-first: millimeter-precise formation flying, entirely on its own.
Almost 2,000 years after Mount Vesuvius exploded, scholars continue to uncover extraordinary archaeological remains immortalized in ash and pumice.
Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 is the first recoverable U.S. hypersonic aircraft since the 1960s.
Neurologists reexamined over two dozen cases identified as part of a unknown brain disease cluster in New Brunswick.
On Monday morning, a woman called 911 after witnessing a bear attack and kill her father's dog—when authorities arrived, they also found the man's body.
New research looks at the emotional and physical repercussions of having your brain scanned for early signs of dementia.
The spacecraft’s expected area of reentry spans vast regions on both sides of the equator, where it could potentially land in a single piece.
Roughly 200 more employees at the National Institutes of Health will be laid off, reportedly to balance out recent rehires.
Brood XIV will emerge this summer to overwhelm predators, shake up ecosystems, and terrify everyone with eardrums.
A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual unwrapping.
The incident came at the height of a rocket rivalry between SpaceX and ULA.
Top health officials were there to tell Trump how smart he was.
A new study has found that shingle vaccination is associated with a lower risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular disease.
SpaceX is looking to increase its rocket launches, which local environmental groups say are harming nearby wildlife.
Tim Friede might be the world's most snakebit person—and his antibodies could hold the key to a truly universal snake antivenom.
A cute observation in the cephalopods' behavior indicates they also react to sound waves, a notion that will soon be tested with a machine learning approach.
A new study analyzed four bus shelter designs during a Houston summer, and highlights that one of them, in certain conditions, makes the heat worse.
The fusion reactor’s electromagnetic “heart” is complete, bringing us one step closer to clean, infinite energy—though there's still a long road ahead.
A new study challenges a widely-held and widely-taught notion about mitosis.
Three decades ago, scientists began to find razor-sharp teeth from predators that had no business being there.
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