Iran plans to establish a national satellite launch base in the southeast of the country, adjacent to the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean, Press TV reported.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has...

Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) Seven Indian Americans figure among the 40 finalists for the Intel Science Talent Search 2012, recognised as America's "most promising high school seniors with the greatest...

Researchers have discovered two new planets, named Kepler-34 and Kepler-35, each of which is circling around its own double suns.

Together with Kepler-16, discovered a few months ago, there are now...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a uniquely close-up view of the brightest distant "magnified" galaxy discovered yet in the universe.

This observation provides a unique opportunity to...

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In what sounds like the opening scene to a bad monster movie, a team of Russian scientists are on the verge of drilling down to a lake buried under more than two miles of ice that hasn't seen...

Millions of eyes will be glued to the gridiron this Sunday as the New England Patriots face the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI. It's the game of the year in American sports, and fans and...

It may seem a prestigious post for a rodent, but the guinea pigs that are fixtures in elementary school classrooms today were once ambassadors from a new land. The third-ever guinea pig skeleton...

A one-of-a-kind fossil shows that so-called bat flies -- tiny vampire insects that survive on the blood of bats -- have been parasitizing the winged mammals and spreading bat malaria for at least 20...

One of the best discussions I've had in the comments on this blog was about entropy, and it took us from black holes to a cup of tea. This excellent video completes the journey, and then...

When Richard Handl was arrested for attempting to split the atom on his stove, he joined a growing band of home experimenters cooking up all kinds of trouble behind the kitchen...

Hot on the heels of a major study showing malaria deaths are twice what everybody thought - and that the disease kills older children and adults as well as babies in large numbers - comes a WHO study...

This distinctive Australian mystery bird is named for one of its life history traits. What trait is that? Can you identify this bird's taxonomic family and...

When it comes to science education, it’s always important to note the general public’s attitude. I’ve asked my readers on multiple occasions, ';which would you rather have your...

NASA 's newest Earth-watching satellite is beaming back spectacular views of our home planet - huge mosaics of many images stitched together at the highest-resolution yet obtained. But...

Iran plans to establish a national satellite launch base in the southeast of the country, adjacent to the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean, Iranian news networks Press TV reported on Friday. ...

Two space-defense missile plants will be built in central Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. The first, to be based in Nizhny Novgorod, will employ 5,000 workers and have a...

The Progress space freighter blasts off from its launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 30, 2011. Russia launched its first unmanned space flight to supply the International Space...

(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ) The technologies needed back in the days of the Apollo space missions were well understood. But with NASA's current missions, it faces a broader and more...

Dropbox, the popular cloud storage utility for synchronizing files among many devices, ordinarily limits free accounts to 2GB, but those who test a new feature to automatically upload photos can get...

This photo from NASA's Suomi NPP satellite shows the Eastern Hemisphere of Earth in "Blue Marble" view. The photo, released Feb. 2, 2012, is a companion to a NASA image showing the...

NASA's GRAIL mission has beamed back its first video of the far side of the moon, taken by the MoonKAM aboard the mission's "Ebb and Flow"...

earliest known pet dog owned by Altay hunter-gatherers .)The scientists received written consent to take DNA samples from nearly 500 people, many of whom were living in remote areas and had never met...

Using both fossil and living specimens, scientists calculated growth rates for 28 different mammalian groups during the past 65 million years--and found that, for mammals, getting big takes longer...

International Space Station .The brightest lights at bottom center come from Belgium and the Netherlands, while the glow of the British Isles is partially obscured by the solar arrays at...

groundhog -- took the stage at rural Gobbler's Knob to introduce what Vice President Mike Johnston called "the Great Oz of weather forecasting." (...

San Jose State's research center received the largest federal award in university history this week: $73 million to help NASA Ames Research Center improve the safety and efficiency of air space...

Wyatt Brand, a public relations, design and social media agency, has moved to The Corners development on South Lamar Boulevard. The new location, at 3001 South Lamar Blvd., is in the same shopping...

Dallas Business Journal by Bill Hethcock, Staff Writer Date: Friday, February 3, 2012, 12:13pm CST - Last Modified: Friday, February 3, 2012, 2:47pm...

Despite it being the middle of winter, there is an explosion of summer colour in one of the big greenhouses at the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew in west London. Visitors are being invited to dive into...

Chris Huhne's departure from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) sees the exit of a minister who is generally regarded as having fought tenaciously for "green" policies...

Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was lost because space radiation disrupted its computer system, a commission investigating the incident said on Friday. The investigation found no faults with the...

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-; Refugee children have scant access to medical care and are particularly vulnerable to disease. Fresh research results from the University of Copenhagen show that just a few hours of schooling a...

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-; An innovative approach to genome screening has provided clues about rare mutations that may make people susceptible to brain aneurysms, predisposing them to brain bleeds, according to preliminary...

-; A new drug that showed promise in animal studies and an early clinical trial didn't improve disability among stroke patients, according to late-breaking research presented at the American...

-; The anti-blood clot regimen that adds the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) to aspirin treatment is unlikely to prevent recurrent strokes and may increase the risk of bleeding and death in patients with...

-; An experimental blood clot-removing device outperformed the FDA-approved MERCI; retriever device, according to late-breaking science presented at the American Stroke Association's 2012...

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-; The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a...

-; When a patient afflicted with schizophrenia hears inner voices something is taking place inside the brain that prevents the individual from...

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