All Science
Tigerfish leaps out of water, devours entire birdIn a video captured by biologists, an aggressive African freshwater tigerfish can be seen jumping out of water to prey upon a swallow in flight.
Puerto Rico earthquake is largest in US in recent yearsPuerto Rico earthquake: A 6.4-magnitude quake struck off Puerto Rico's northern coast just after midnight on Monday, damaging some buildings but causing no injuries, say officials.
Hubble telescope snaps spectacular images of Tarantula NebulaNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the deepest view yet of the gassy, dusty, Tarantula Nebula, located some 160,000 light-years away.
Will 2014 be the year commercial spaceflight really lifts off?Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo passed its third supersonic flight test with flying colors, prompting some analysts to predict that the coming year will be a pivotal one for private industry in space.
Meat-eaters versus carnivores: Is your diet killing wolves?Most large land carnivore populations are in decline. A report from Oregon State University suggests that livestock production is partly to blame.
Humongous black hole to snack on gas cloud, say scientistsAn expected collision between a gas cloud and a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way will help us better understand the evolution of the entire galaxy, say scientists.
Speeding stars pose puzzle to scientists: What got them moving?Astronomers say they've spotted a new class of stars speeding to the galactic exit, but not flung out from the galactic core by a black hole. Their origin and the reason for their haste are mysteries.
'Hand of God' seen in NASA space telescope imageHand of God: NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array has spotted a pulsar wind nebula that resembles a gigantic ethereal right hand.
Bacteria release billions and billions of 'food parcels' into oceans, say scientistsCyanobacteria, among the first single-celled organisms to inhabit this planet, continuously release vesicles into the ocean. These vesicles are source of nourishment for other marine organisms
Wallops Island launch sends gifts, ants to space stationWallops Island launch: Orbital Sciences Corp. successfully hoisted a capsule packed with 3,000 pounds of equipment and experiments provided by NASA, as well as food and even some ants for an educational project.
Why Americans have become cold weather wimpsGlobal warming is lengthening the gaps between deep cold snaps like the one that just hit the US, say meteorologists. It's been 17 years since temperatures dipped this low in the US.
Wallops Island launch: Cargo ship with gifts and ants heads to space stationWallops Island launch: After multiple delays, an Antares rocket launched successfully from Wallops Island, Va., offering a spectacle to eastern states and carrying cargo to the International Space Station.
Aurora Borealis could be visible in much of Canada, northern USAurora Borealis: A powerful solar flare is shaking up the Earth's magnetic field, producing a light show in the sky for much of North America.
Cygnus headed to space station with food, clothing, and other suppliesAfter a series of delays, including a 24-hour slip prompted by a solar flare, Orbital Science's robotic Cygnus spacecraft is en route to the International Space Station.
Where do your bones come from? Shark genome study offers insights.Researchers have mapped the genome of the elephant shark, and they say it helps explain the genetic basis of how bones form.
Long in the tooth? Great white sharks can live to a ripe old age, study finds.Using radiocarbon dating instead of counting rings in vertebrae suggests that great white sharks in the northwest Atlantic can live as long as humans, not just into their 20s, as previously had been thought.
Ancient sea monsters had black skin, scales, say scientistsAn analysis of the preserved skin of ancient marine reptiles found evidence that they were black, an adaptation that would have helped them with camouflauge, UV protection, and even body-temperature regulation, researchers say.
Humongous solar flare hurtles toward Earth, disrupts spaceflightA major solar flare has prompted the spaceflight company Orbital Sciences to delay its resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Why spotting alien life just got easierThe Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), an intricate astronomical instrument the size of a small car can see planets a million times fainter than their parent stars. The technology is a step closer to finding a habitable planet beyond our solar system.
'Missing link' black holes could be hiding in dwarf galaxiesScientists looking for clues into how supermassive black holes form might have found some at the heart of dwarf galaxies. These middleweight black holes could be 'seeds' of the bigger ones.
