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Speaking in Washington, DC, the SpaceX founder and CEO also said he would...
Credit: ISSR&D Conference/NASA/CASISElon Musk may be focused primarily on Mars, but he'd also like to see a human outpost on a world much closer to home. "To really get the public real fired up, I...
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OpenSpace software allows viewers to swoop over Martian mountain ranges and...
Credit: OpenSpaceHave you ever wished you could go to Mars without taking on the long-term commitment and risks associated with spaceflight? Now you can explore the surface of Mars without leaving the...
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No trace of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was found during an extensive...
The painstaking search for missing flight MH370 has uncovered a previously unknown undersea world of volcanoes, deep valleys, and soaring ridges, according to detailed maps released by Australia....
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A study found that people who said that they weren't exercising as much as...
Credit: Jonathan Storey/Getty ImagesPeople who believe they are not exercising enough are more likely to suffer the consequences of inactivity whether or not they are sedentary, while those who...
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But the cities Musk says he plans to connect with an ultra-fast underground...
Credit: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesTech entrepreneur Elon Musk caused a stir Thursday with a startling claim to have “verbal” government approval for his drilling venture, The Boring Company, to begin...
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Distant satellite interference, not alien communication, was the source of...
Credit: Gerhard/ullstein bild via Getty ImagesDistant satellite interference, not alien communications, were the source of signals emanating from Ross 128, a dim star located 11 light-years from...
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With two-thirds of Americans living within a day’s drive of the path of the...
Credit: NASA/GSFC/CI LabOne month from today, the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21 will make its way across the US from Oregon to South Carolina. As the clock ticks down to the big day, the question is:...
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A team of health researchers argue that focusing on weight misses the point...
Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty ImagesAmericans, we are often reminded, face an obesity epidemic of epic proportions: Over a third of US adults are certifiably obese, and another third are...
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Almost a third of adults in the southern African nation were HIV positive in...
Credit: Stringer/AFP/Getty ImagesSwaziland, which bears the world's heaviest HIV burden, has almost halved the rate of new infections in five years by boosting access to virus-suppressing drugs,...
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Substantial amounts of water could be trapped in the rocky material that...
Credit: NASAA new look at archival data from a lunar orbiter mission along with laboratory tests of Apollo moon rocks confirms what numerous studies have been pointing to over the last decade: There...
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The space agency is celebrating 70 years of aircraft testing by releasing a...
Credit: NASA Armstrong Flight Research CenterAviation geeks rejoice: There’s a whole new way to waste time. NASA is marking 70 years of advanced aircraft testing by releasing a trove of old video from...
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Changing winds at one end of the continent, themselves linked to warming,...
Credit: NASA/Jane PetersonEstimates of just how much sea levels will rise and inundate coastal areas vary widely. One of the reasons is that scientists just aren’t sure how quickly the vast ice sheets...
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For clues into how people form strong or weak social networks, psychologists...
Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSocial networks existed long before Facebook. They are the webs of interpersonal relationships — some close and strong, some distant and weak — that can greatly...
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HIV is a tenacious virus, but cows are able to quickly produce antibodies...
Credit: FlickrResearchers have long sought to develop an effective HIV vaccine. Several treatments have undergone clinical trials, but the only one that’s been even slightly successful, a 2009 study...
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A new analysis of astronomical observations suggests the Milky Way hosts a...
Credit: J. Skowron/Warsaw University ObservatoryThere probably aren't nearly as many giant planets zooming alone through the Milky Way galaxy as scientists had thought, a new study reports. Previous...
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Scientific discovery most often comes through incremental progress rather...
Credit: Images Etc Ltd/Getty ImagesWould it be easy to determine if the source of a mysterious radio signal was aliens? Probably not. A new paper argues that contact with extraterrestrials will likely...
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The Tesla and SpaceX founder has raised alarms over advanced machine...
Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesVisionary entrepreneur Elon Musk and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg were trading jabs on social media over artificial intelligence this week in a debate that has...
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While early detection for all cancers is important, a diagnosis of...
Credit: Win McNamee/Getty ImagesJohn McCain returned to the US Senate on Tuesday to cast a critical vote in favor of opening debate on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, popularly known...
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New research suggests that the ability to intuit emotional states from...
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/The Morgan LibraryOver a century ago, naturalist Charles Darwin observed that all humans, as well as other animals, exhibit and express emotion in remarkably similar ways. He...
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The average Western man’s sperm count has fallen by about 60 percent in the...
Credit: BurazinIn 1992, scientists from Denmark published a study claiming that there had been a decline in the quality of men’s semen over the preceding 50 years. Though worries have persisted since...
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