 Can the International Space Station Survive Until 2020?  | The International Space Station is undergoing an engineering analysis and risk assessment to gauge its ability to keep operating until 2020 and beyond.
| Read More » Weird Weather: Dry Seasons Start Earlier, Are Wetter  | Call it weird, call it extreme, maybe even call it the new normal. Wild weather in the United States in the past decade has amassed a long list of toppled records and financial disasters.
| Read More » Cruise to Set Sail to Investigate Ocean Acidification  | The waters off the Pacific Northwest are becoming more acidic, making life more difficult for the animals that live there, especially oysters and the approximately 3,200 people employed in the shellfish industry.
| Read More » NASA Telescope Snaps 1st Photos of Mystery Region on the Sun  | NASA's newest solar observatory has taken its first photos of the lowest layers of the solar atmosphere, a mysterious and little-understood region of the sun.
| Read More » NYC Performs Final Subway Airflow Test  | NEW YORK CITY — On a street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, an unremarkable gray box protrudes from a telephone pole. Inside the box lies a state-of-the-art airflow-sampling device, one part of an experiment to track how a gas disperses through the city's streets and subway system.
| Read More » Russian Supply Ship Hauls Trash, Treadmill from Space Station  | An unmanned Russian cargo ship filled with trash and an astronaut treadmill cast off from the International Space Station Thursday (July 25) to make way for a fresh delivery set to launch to the orbiting lab this weekend.
| Read More » Comet ISON Blazes with Distant Galaxies in Stunning Hubble Photo  | A spectacular new photo gives a deep-space view of Comet ISON, which could put on a dazzling show when it zooms through the inner solar system in late November.
| Read More » Mysterious Hum Driving People Around the World Crazy It creeps in slowly in the dark of night, and once inside, it almost never goes away. Read More » Why MERS is Not the New SARS The new virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) has been compared to that of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) — the viruses belong to the same family, and are particularly deadly to infected people — however, the two conditions have some important differences, a new study says. Read More » 1 in 4 of Surgery Errors Due to Technology Problems Technology or equipment issues cause one in four operating room errors, and device checks before surgery could prevent some of them, a new study finds. Read More » Chew on This: Fewer Teeth Linked with Worse Memory If you want to maintain a sharp memory, you may want to brush up: People who have fewer natural teeth remaining perform more poorly on memory tests, a new study suggests. Read More » Dinosaur-Killing Comet Didn't Wipe Out Freshwater Species  | The cosmic impact that ended the age of dinosaurs killed many living creatures on land and in the sea, but scientists have found, puzzlingly, that life in freshwater largely escaped this fate.
| Read More » 3D-Printed Rocket Parts Excel in NASA Tests  | Key rocket parts built using 3D-printing technology have passed another round of NASA firing tests, inspiring further confidence among space agency officials in this emerging manufacturing technique.
| Read More » Pesticides Contaminating Critters in California's National Parks  | Pesticides from California's valley farms are collecting in the tissues of a singing treefrog that lives in pristine national parks, including Yosemite and Giant Sequoia, a new study finds.
| Read More » The Hardest Working Cities In America Everything is bigger in Texas, including its work ethic. According to research conducted by Movoto Real Estate, five of the 10 hardest-working cities in the country are located in the Lone Star State. Seattle snagged the No. 1 spot, while New York — a city known for its high-powered workaholics — just missed the cut for top 10. Read More » NASA Flooded with Asteroid Exploration Ideas  | SAN JOSE, Calif. — A NASA call for novel ideas on how to tackle its ambitious mission to capture an asteroid and park it near the moon has paid off in spades, with the agency receiving hundreds of proposals from potential partners.
| Read More » Giant Electromagnet Ends Its Month-Long Move  | After more than a month of traveling over land and sea, a huge doughnut-shaped electromagnet has crossed the finish line of its 3,200-mile (5,000 kilometers) haul from New York to Illinois.
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