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Government shutdown: What would happen to NASA?The space agency would have to cease most of its operations and furlough about 98 percent of its workforce, officials say.
Are we entering the age of private spaceflight?Two private American companies – SpaceX and Orbital Sciences – are now responsible for restocking the International Space Station.
- Killer hornets rampage through China
Killer hornets: A series of deadly attacks by the Asian giant hornet in China has prompted officials to warn citizens away from forests and fields.
How a bird forgot its mother tongueNew research to be published next month reports that this European bird gradually lost the syntactical structure of its song over the last million years, as it colonized island after island.
The dirt on Curiosity: new report card for its first 100 daysCuriosity did a lot in its first 100 Martian days, including finding evidence for surface water on Mars for extended periods in the past. Five new studies chronicle Curiosity's first findings.
Bison, beavers are making a comeback, says new European reportA new report released Thursday describes the success stories of some 18 mammal and 19 bird species that have made comebacks in Europe.
Surprise: Earth had oxygen before Great Oxidation EventEarth, it now unfolds, had substantial levels of oxygen about 600 million years before the so-called Great Oxidation Event.
Russian rocket speeds to space stationThree crew members arrived at the International Space Station, Wednesday evening. They join three others to bring the station's crew back to full-strength. During their time in space, one of the group's tasks will be to showcase the Olympic torch.
Early life filled ancient Earth's atmosphere with oxygen, say scientistsAn important element, oxygen, may have been present in high levels relatively early in the planet's history, according to new findings. This suggests photosynthetic organisms were on Earth 3 billion years ago.
US, Russian astronauts on express trip to space stationA Russian Soyuz capsule carrying one American and two Russian astronauts is on a six-hour sprint to the International Space Station, following a successful launch from Kazakhstan.
The first fish face? Fossil sports modern jaw and facial bones.Paleontologists in China uncovered a 419-million-year-old fish fossil with the earliest known version of modern jaw and facial bones. The find is standing one evolutionary view on its head.
The X chromosome is not, in fact, X-shapedA paper published in Nature this week describes the first 3D model of the X chromosome - and it's not X-shaped.
Spinning neutron star acting like erratic teenager, astronomers sayAstronomers have spotted a fast-spinning star that is switching back and forth between the two known varieties of pulsars.
Toad noms on bat, poses for photoA park ranger in Peru snapped a photo of a cane toad trying to eat a bat. The toad eventually gave up and spat out the bat, which flew away.
How the con artist cuckoo finch begs off parentingThe cuckoo finch has evolved to dupe other birds into raising its young. A team of researchers have discovered another adaptive strategy that the cuckoo finch has employed.
What do you find when you crowdsource the universe?Astronomers at the University of Minnesota reported this week that contributors to the citizen science portal, Galaxy Zoo, had helped them to amass a database of galaxies some 10 times larger than any previous galaxies catalog.
Mars had two wet eras, Curiosity rover tells usAt the European Planetary Science Congress, researchers summed up the flood of evidence that Mars was once a wet planet.
In Brazil, massive pod of dolphins beachedAbout 30 dolphins beached themselves in northeastern Brazil this weekend. Scientists are puzzled as to why.
Are horses naturally vicious? A Connecticut court says they areA Connecticut court defined horses as a naturally vicious species. Equine enthusiasts are asking the Connecticut Supreme Court this ruling that would make horse ownership uninsurable.
Warming to make US conditions more ripe for tornado-making storms, study saysGlobal warming weakens a key ingredient for tornado-making thunderstorms, prior studies held. True, researchers now say, but the number of days in the US where the right conditions exist will increase.
