| Astronaut Chris Hadfield to Write 'Guide to Life on Earth'  | Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who in May returned from the International Space Station as a veteran commander and social media star, has landed a two-book deal to share his space experiences.
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| Read More » Buzzworthy Find: 'Mythical' Corpse-Eating Flies  | Behold the bone-skipper, high in the running for the strangest fly on Earth. For the bone-skipper, fresh carcasses just won't do. No, these flies prefer large, dead bodies in advanced stages of decay. And unlike most flies, they are active in early winter, from November to January, usually after dark.
| Read More » Evidence of Ancient Farming in Iran Discovered  | Agriculture may have arisen simultaneously in many places throughout the Fertile Crescent, new research suggests.
| Read More » Go Gluten Free? Most People Shouldn't (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge, R.D.,is a registered dietitian, author of " Diet Simple: 195 Mental Tricks, Substitutions, Habits & Inspirations" (Lifeline Press, 2011), and a frequent national commentator on nutrition topics. Tallmadge contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More » SETI Evolution: Searching for Aliens Using Whale Songs and Radios (Op-Ed)  | Laurance Doyle is principal investigator for the Center for the Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute, where he has been since 1987, and is a member of the NASA Kepler Mission Science Team. He contributed this article to SPACE.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
| Read More » How X-Rays Demystified a 2,500-Year-Old Battle Wound (Op-Ed) Helise Coopersmith is a musculoskeletal and body imaging radiologist for the North Shore-LIJ Health System, assistant professor of radiology at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and a member of the Hofstra medical school's admissions committee. She Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » New Look at What Lies Beneath Hawaii  | The hotspot feeding Hawaii's volcanoes may look like one of two lava lamp bubbles — an oval blob or a long, stretched-out plume.
| Read More » Solar Plane Set to Complete Cross-Country Flight in NYC Sunday  | A solar-powered plane will fly from Washington, D.C., to New York City tomorrow (July 6), on the fifth and final leg of its unprecedented trip across the United States.
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| Read More » How Guillemot Eggs Clean Themselves  | Unlike birds that incubate their young in carefully built nests, sea-loving guillemots lay their eggs in rather precarious places — on rock ledges and exposed cliffs in crowded breeding colonies throughout the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans.
| Read More » Earth Is Farthest From the Sun for 2013 Today  | The Earth is as far from the sun as possible for the year today (July 5), but that may come as a surprise for people baking in a heat wave affecting nine western states, with temperatures at or above 100 expected across much of Southern California, southern Nevada and southern Arizona.
| Read More » The Surprising Cause of Most 'Spider Bites'  | If the thought of spiders makes your skin crawl, you might find it reassuring that the chances of being bitten by a spider are smaller than you imagine, recent research shows.
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