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What makes 2017's 'Great American Eclipse' so great?A year from Sunday, those in the continental United States will be treated to a solar eclipse, whose path of totality stretches from Oregon to South Carolina.
- Retro fashion: Scientists examine Ötzi the Iceman's wardrobe
The 5,300-year-old frozen European mummy wore an outfit composed almost entirely of animal skin, say researchers.
NASA to launch asteroid-sampling mission in three weeksNASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is set to launch from Cape Canaveral September 8, aimed at a rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu in 2018.
New software can track global poverty...from spaceA team of Stanford researchers have created a program that uses only publicly available satellite imagery to cheaply and efficiently find poverty indicators. The program could be a cheap and accurate new method of poverty data collection.
This tree in Greece is Europe's oldest known living treeAn ancient Bosnian pine, nicknamed Adonis by researchers, has been dated to about 1,075 years old, making it the oldest known tree living in Europe.
How scientists measure Louisiana's flooding from spaceIntense rainfall is causing widespread flooding in parts of Louisiana, and new measurements from a NASA satellite illustrate just how much precipitation has accumulated in this region.
Space station's new door swings open to welcome commercial travellersThe successful installation of an international docking adapter on the International Space Station on Friday represents another step toward space tourism.
First LookWhy Yellowstone officials are poisoning its riversYellowstone officials are the most recent to try creative, even drastic, strategies to eliminate non-native fish species from Yellowstone's rivers and streams.
First LookWhat makes rare 'Tufts-Love' T. rex a 'must-see' dinosaur?A massive T. rex head discovered in the famous Hell Creek Formation in Montana could soon start drawing visitors to Washington State's Burke Museum.
What a tiny sun-powered water purifier could mean for developing countriesScientists have developed a quicker, cheaper way to purify water – with a solar-powered device half the size of a postage stamp.
Frozen fashion: Decoding Ötzi the Iceman's wardrobeThe animal skins the ancient European wore when he died are helping scientists piece together Ötzi's life.
First LookDoes your dog love you more than her dinner bowl?A recent study investigates whether dogs are more motivated by a reward of food, or praise from their owner – and pet owners may like the findings.
For the first time ever, astronomers watch a sleeping white dwarf go novaFor the first time in recorded history, scientists have witnessed the steps leading up to a nova.
First LookNASA greenlights OSIRIS-REx for asteroid huntOn September 8, OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to be launched toward the asteroid Bennu to collect samples to send back to Earth. The asteroid may provide hints about the formation of planets and the origins of life on Earth.
Two Barbados bird species pull strings, join elite groupTwo new birds can complete the string-pull cognition test, but the results do not correlate with performance on other cognition tests, according to a recent study.
Did our fingers evolve from fish fins?Human digits seem to be completely different structures from the fins of their fishy ancestors, but new research suggests that is not the case.
First LookPet goldfish, discarded, become giant problem for AustraliaTiny pet goldfish are finding their way into resource-abundant Australian waterways where they feast away until they reach gigantic proportions.
Second-oldest Great Lakes shipwreck offers a rare window into the pastUnderwater explorers have discovered the second-oldest shipwreck in the Great Lakes: a sloop that sunk in a bad storm on its way to home port in Ontario in 1803.
First LookZenkerella, an elusive scaly-tailed squirrel, is rediscoveredScientists have found the first complete specimens of Zenkerella insignis, a mysterious and elusive tropical rodent.
First LookSmithsonian finds extinct river dolphin skull in its collectionA cetacean skull, which had been left to the Smithsonian more than half a century ago, may belong to an undiscovered species of prehistoric dolphin.
