Sethuraman Panchanathan, the Indian-origin Director of the National Science Foundation, resigned amid alleged pressure from the Trump administration to cut the NSF's budget and staff. Frustration ...

In findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers said the caterpillar "boasts an unprecedented and macabre practice of decorating its portable larval home with the body parts of ...

Thales of Miletus (considered to be the first scientist in the Western world) pondered on the cause of static electricity, and the electric prowess of eels inspired Alessandro Volta to invent the ...

Editor’s note: We’ve updated this story with the phrase “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” NASA’s most recent term for unidentified aerial phenomena. When NASA asked Boston University ...

Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...

For "Boy Band Night," Mad Scientist Monster sang "I Swear" and the judges name-dropped Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, and Keith Urban. When the Lucky 6 merged and he sang "There's Nothing Holdin' Me ...

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"The abundance of super-Earths was a surprise." Yee explained that scientists previously knew from data delivered by the Kepler space telescope mission that super-Earths are common around other ...

A new bone marrow imaging technique could change treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and musculoskeletal disorders. Indiana University School of Medicine scientists have developed a powerful ...

Only five masks remain - Boogie Woogie, Coral, Mad Scientist Monster, Nessy and Pearl - after Matthew Lawrence was unmasked as Paparazzo last week. Host Nick Cannon returns with judges Robin ...

"There is no way to convey that color in an article or on a monitor," study coauthor Austin Roorda, a vision scientist at UC Berkeley, told The Guardian. "The whole point is that this is not the ...