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Why do so many earthquakes strike Japan?The back to back quakes that rocked Japan in recent days are a reminder of the island nation's location along the Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire.
Solar Impulse 2 to resume solar-powered flight around the globeThe solar-powered Solar Impulse 2, which had to take a break from its circumnavigation mid-way through last year due to burned out batteries, is set to resume its epic journey.
Interstellar dust: How these rare cosmic specks challenge our viewsThe NASA Cassini spacecraft was able to capture 36 particles of dust from interstellar space that defy expectations and can help scientists better understand regions beyond our solar system.
Mysterious volcano prompts collaboration of North Korean, Western scientistsIn an unprecedented move of scientific collaboration, an international team is investigating a massive volcano that stretches across the border of China and North Korea.
Why Stephen Hawking's robot mission to Alpha Centauri may face obstaclesBreakthrough Starshot aims to propel postage-stamp sized ships toward the Alpha Centauri star saystem using lasers over the relatively short span of 20 years.
Flexible 'e-skin' film lets us turn our bodies into LED displaysResearchers at the University of Tokyo have developed an ultra-thin film that can accommodate LEDs, creating the first functional, flexible, impermeable, light-up skin.
How Alaskan moose benefit from global warmingRising temperatures might not mean shrinking habitats for all animals.
Scientists crack mystery of migrating monarch navigationThe uncanny mechanisms that monarch butterflies use to navigate thousands of miles each year, back and forth from their wintering grounds in Mexico has long baffled scientists. A new study suggests how they may process information to determine which way to go.
How the Great Barrier Reef is going from bad to worseAs the world warms, the corals of Australia's natural icon are losing their ability to cope, say scientists, which could lead to major coral reef losses.
Greenland's early ice melt breaks records. What's behind the thaw?The Big Melt: Greenland's ice sheet experienced an unprecedented early ice melt. The cause could be warm air or a variety of other possible factors unveiled over the past year.
A Swiss forest proves that even trees can shareFor five years, researchers used a giant crane to study 40-meter tall trees in Switzerland. They discovered the trees sharing some of the carbon they absorbed.
Space travel could be a breeze on solar windA new NASA propulsion system being tested in Alabama has the potential to cut by two-thirds the time it takes for spacecraft to reach the edge of our solar system.
How Saharan desert ants use their silver hairs to keep coolA new optical study helps explain how the silver ant can beat the scorching heat of the Sahara.
Strange alignment: A group of black holes points to galaxies' beginningsA group of supermassive black holes in a distant region of space are all shooting radio emissions in the same direction, despite having no way to transmit information.
Earliest evidence of exoplanets came to light in 1917The rediscovery of a century-old glass plate of a white dwarf star in the Carnegie Observatories' archives shows scientists may have discovered evidence of exoplanets decades sooner than thought.
Inky the Octopus stages brazen escape from New Zealand aquariumInky, a wild octopus, slipped out of his tank at the New Zealand National Aquarium. What does the cephalopod's clever escape say about animal intelligence?
Oldest glass factory in Israel dates to 4th century ADIn a new archaeological find, the oldest evidence of glassmaking in Israel has turned up, pushing estimates of the area's industrial prowess back to the fourth century AD.
Sending robots to Alpha Centauri? Stephen Hawking is on it.A new program backed by Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, and Mark Zuckerberg aims to shoot gram-sized craft to Alpha Centauri using laser beam propulsion.
Weird 'cloud' of crabs off Panama baffles scientistsOceanographers from Woods Hole found a swarm of crabs so dense they described it as a 'cloud.' What were all those crabs up to?
Hot super-Earths have atmospheres torn away by host starsUsing the nascent art of asteroseismology, scientists have found evidence of what many astronomers long suspected: a class of planets living so close to their stars that the radiation strips them of their atmosphere.
