Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider
A small mammal has sabotaged the world's most powerful scientific instrument.The Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile superconducting machine designed to smash protons together at close to the speed of...
View ArticleGeologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
Scientists have had a literal breakthrough off the coast of Mexico.After weeks of drilling from an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico, they have reached rocks left over from the day the Earth was...
View ArticleNIH Announces Leadership Shake-Up At Renowned Research Hospital
The National Institutes of Health is overhauling the leadership of its world-renowned Clinical Center, after an independent task force found the center was putting research ahead of patient safety.As...
View ArticleLawmakers Reach A Deal To Expand Regulation Of Toxic Chemicals
House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a plan to update a 40-year-old law regulating the safety of chemicals.The bipartisan legislation would update the Toxic Substances Control Act, which became...
View ArticleGravitational Waves From Colliding Black Holes Shake Scientists' Detectors Again
Scientists announced Wednesday that they have once again detected ripples in space and time from two black holes colliding far away in the universe.The discovery comes just months after the first-ever...
View ArticleU.S. Mounts Daring Rescue Mission At The South Pole
Updated 5:45 p.m. ET: Plane lands at the poleThe U.S. government has launched a rescue mission to the South Pole after a worker at its Amundsen-Scott research station fell ill. The evacuation comes at...
View ArticleRisky South Pole Rescue Succeeds As 2 Patients Are Airlifted Out
Updated at 6:30 a.m. ETA small plane on a daring winter evacuation mission from the South Pole landed safely Wednesday night at Punta Arenas, Chile.The National Science Foundation, which runs the...
View ArticleHow To Catch The Biggest Wave In The Universe
When it comes to waves, it doesn't get much bigger than the gravitational variety. Einstein predicted that huge events — like black holes merging — create gravitational waves. Unlike most waves we...
View ArticleIn Other News: This Photo Of An Elephant Snuggling An Ostrich
The news this week. For that reason, we're bringing you this photo of a baby elephant named Jotto cuddled up to an ostrich named Pea. Conservationists with the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya...
View ArticleDinosaurs Down Under May Help Explain Prehistoric Migrations
The remains of two gigantic dinosaurs discovered in Australia may shed light on how dinosaurs spread across the globe. The dinosaurs are both titanosaurs , massive plant-eaters with long necks and...
View ArticleMissing Malaysia Airlines Jet Plunged Into Sea, New Report Suggests
A report out this morning from Australian investigators offers a handful of new clues about the greatest aviation mystery of the 21st century: the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 . Based...
View ArticleBrain Scientists Trace Rat Ticklishness To Play Behavior
Scientists have pinpointed the ticklish bit of a rat's brain. The results, published in the journal Science , are another step toward understanding the origins of ticklishness, and its purpose in...
View ArticleRussia Seen Moving New Missiles To Eastern Europe
In what could mark an escalation of tensions with the West, commercial satellite images suggest that Russia is moving a new generation of nuclear-capable missiles into Eastern Europe. Russia appears to...
View ArticleMissing Malaysian Aircraft Is Likely Outside The Search Area, Report Finds
The wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is probably outside the stretch of ocean that international search ships have scoured for the past two years, a " first principles review " has concluded....
View ArticleNorth Korea 'Very Far Along' In Developing New Ballistic Missile
North Korea got 2017 off to a menacing start. In his New Year's address , supreme leader Kim Jong Un warned that the nation was in the "final stage" of preparations to test an intercontinental...
View ArticleMiniaturized Nuclear Power Plant? U.S. Reviewing Proposed Design
Nuclear power plants are typically hulking structures made using billions of dollars of concrete and steel. But one company thinks that by going smaller, they could actually make nuclear power more...
View ArticleVX: The Nerve Agent Used To Kill Kim Jong Nam Is Rare And Deadly
When the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un collapsed at a Malaysian airport last week, poisoning was instantly suspected. But on Friday, Malaysian authorities revealed that an autopsy had...
View ArticleDo Showers Make Oranges Taste Better? NPR Investigates
Here are the claims: Oranges taste better in the shower. Eating oranges in the shower will make you happy. The shower orange experience could turn your entire life around. Thousands of Reddit users...
View ArticleEPA Chief Scott Pruitt Questions Basic Facts About Climate Change
President Trump's head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a major cause of global warming. "I would not agree that [CO 2 ] is a primary contributor...
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