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After 10 years studying tiny bones unearthed by a farmer in China, an international team of scientists announced this summer that the fossil is the oldest known primate skeleton yet [...]

Looking at the cosmos through a telescope is a transformative experience. The rings of Saturn, the clouds of distant nebulae, and the familiar yet alien surface of our own moon [...]

Skull implants may not be considered cutting-edge anymore, but this March a man received one made to order by a 3D printer. Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) prints the inserts, which [...]

There are plenty of threats to a research station in Antarctica: brutal cold, building-burying snowfall, and an ice shelf that's in constant motion. After the British Antarctic Survey lost four [...]

Thanks to expanded housing developments and, in some areas, recovering wildlife populations, animals and people are seeing more of each other these days. Coyotes, deer, and raccoons now live in [...]

More than a year after the Costa Concordia ran aground off the Italian coast, the ship remains where it wrecked. More than 400 workers are attempting one of the largest [...]

HOW TO TURN YOUR HOUSE-PARTY LEFTOVERS INTO A METEOROLOGICAL MASH-UP. You don't need a TV weather forecaster in an expensive windbreaker to tell you what's happening in your own backyard. [...]

Microscope photography used to be a high-priced craft--and for high magnifications it still is. Hall Davidson, a former math teacher who works for Discovery Education, has come up with an [...]

NASA may not know whether its next destination is an asteroid, Mars, or the moon, but the agency is definitely planning for some kind of journey--and its engineers need to [...]

* When he was a kid, Chris Southerly wanted to try scuba diving--but the mountains of Virginia, where he grew up, offered few opportunities. So Southerly learned to dive in [...]

A recent study led by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) associate professor of information technology Alessandro Acquisti used facial-recognition software (FRS) to link student volunteers to their Facebook profiles--within 3 seconds. [...]

Despite substantial improvements in quality, the way cameras take photographs has barely changed over the past half-century: Point, focus and click to capture a static image. This fall, Lytro, a [...]