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The Peruvian government claims that nearly 900 dolphins died of natural causes. A separate study disagrees.
The tumbleweed rover could dominate Mars exploration, but is there too much bounce in its roll?
Bone flutes found in southern Germany push back the date human creativity evolved.
In the new Men in black movie the special effects are eye-popping, literally.
A demo suggests one way to make enormous TVs not insanely expensive.
A tomb yields more than 80 mummies and skeletons -- many belonging to babies.
A prototype dolphin speaker projects the full range of all dolphin-made sounds.
It's been debated for years, but researchers say they now have a definitive date of the crucifixion.
Are the world's men being destroyed by online pornography and video games?
NASCAR officials have signed an agreement to work with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to continue and expand promotion of green products and lifestyles.
The spacecraft aced its orbital driving test Thursday, positioning the company a step closer to becoming the first private firm to reach the space station.
Babies as young as 7 months can parse out boring versus interesting, research shows.
Tablets may soon authenticate users by reading hand movement.
If aliens attacked which would it be, David and Goliath or something far worse?
This rod prevents strikes by doing exactly the opposite of what they are usually known for.
A weird customer service hologram is coming to New York City airports.
Two manmade pollutants known best as threats to human health have just been charged with two more offenses: shifting rainfall patterns and mucking with food production.
Harvesting antimatter in space would completely bypass the difficulties of an Earth-bound particle accelerator.
Give your first impression a little more gravity by handing one of these babies out.
Stuntman Gary Connery wore a specially-designed wingsuit and landed without a parachute.
When creatures made their way onto land for the first time, it wasn't pretty.
A baby Gentoo penguin recently met a human for the first time and the footage is adorable.
The first physical evidence is found of Bethlehem's existence centuries before the town became known as Jesus' birthplace.
A new simulation hints at the existence of a world, four times the mass of Earth, is causing the peculiar orbits of scattered disk objects.
Scientists have created a robotic fish to sniff out polluters.
The world's largest animal feeds by lunging and gulping huge volumes of prey-laden water.
Kenyan crime fighters will soon have the tools to solve hippo whodunits, meerkat murders and other wildlife crimes.
The end of stick-throwing? A remote-controlled woodchuck gets the chase going.
Next month's issue of the home magazine will feature a digital watermark to link readers to a Pinterest page.
The clingy, lightweight robot can scale your clothes compliments of its gripper wheels.
The way "Twihards" incorporate the series into their lives shares similarities with religion, research finds.
A special blanket in development could turn piles of plant waste into useful energy.
In less than 24 hours Lake Cachet II in Chile's southern Patagonia vanished, leaving behind just some large puddles and chunks of ice in the vast lake bed.
Street lighting is changing bug communities and that means trouble for humans.
What happens if we kill the world's oceans? Nothing good.
After a heroic pit bull named Lily saves her owner's life, Ohio reverses its position on the breed.
A kit containing 600 to 700 parts, including Kinect hardware and software, was used to build basketball-shooting robots.
A call is out for supposed Big Foot material so university scientists can do genetic testing.
Meteorologists named the first storm of the 2012 hurricane season this year: tropical storm Alberto is starting the party early.
