 NASA Picks Top 96 Ideas for Asteroid-Capture Mission  | As NASA continues to plan out its ambitious mission to snag an asteroid and park it near the moon, the space agency will consider nearly 100 ideas submitted by potential partners.
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| Read More » Slimy Suspects: How Millipedes Likely Caused a Train Wreck In the event of a collision, there's usually someone to blame, like a driver who's texting or is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. But in a recent train collision in Australia, the usual suspects were ruled out in favor of a less common culprit: millipedes. Read More » Exercise May Ward Off Epilepsy People who exercise vigorously as young adults may reduce their risk of developing epilepsy later in life, a new study from Sweden suggests. Read More » New NASA spacecraft to investigate moon mystery By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - More than 40 years after the last Apollo astronauts left the moon, NASA is preparing to launch a small robotic spacecraft to investigate one of their most bizarre discoveries. Crews reported seeing an odd glow on the lunar horizon just before sunrise. The phenomenon, which prompted a notebook sketch by Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan, was unexpected because the airless moon lacked atmosphere for reflecting sunlight. ... Read More » Scorpion Is Gondwana's Oldest Land Animal  | A fierce predator with a huge stinger and long pincers is the oldest land-animal fossil ever found on the former Gondwana supercontinent, a new study reports.
| Read More » NASA Studying 4 Landing Site Options for 2016 Mars Mission  | NASA is weighing candidate landing sites for its next mission to the surface of Mars, a three-legged probe that will study the Red Planet's core in 2016.
| Read More » World's Only Hibernating Primate Has Strange Sleep Patterns  | Madagascar's fat-tailed dwarf lemur is the only primate known to hibernate. Now, scientists have found that the primate is also the only animal known to fully fall asleep while hibernating in its natural environment.
| Read More » Lego Releases First Female Scientist  | Wearing glasses and a lab coat, and holding out two Erlenmeyer flasks, Professor C. Bodin (as her nametag reads) is Lego's first female scientist.
| Read More » Mysterious 'Fairy Circles' in African Desert Get New Explanation  | The bizarre circular patches of bare land called "fairy circles" in the grasslands of Africa's Namib Desert have defied explanation, with hypotheses ranging from ants to termites to grass-killing gas that seeps out of the soil. But the patches may be the natural result of the subsurface competition for resources among plants, new research suggests.
| Read More » Monster Saturn Storm Dredged Up Icy Water from the Deeps  | A colossal storm that raged on Saturn in 2010 and 2011 churned water ice up from deep within the ringed planet's thick atmosphere, a new study reports.
| Read More » The Drake Equation Revisited: Interview with Planet Hunter Sara Seager  | Planet hunters keep finding distant worlds that bear a resemblance to Earth. Some of the thousands of exoplanet candidates discovered to date have similar sizes or temperatures. Others possess rocky surfaces and support atmospheres. But no world has yet provided an unambiguous sign of the characteristic that still sets our pale blue dot apart: the presence of life.
| Read More » Odd Cause of Salamander Die-Off Found: Skin-Eating Fungus  | A newly discovered fungus that feasts on the skin of amphibians is threatening to decimate a species of salamander in the Netherlands, according to new research.
| Read More » It's a Girl! National Zoo Panda Cub's Sex Announced  | The panda cub born last month at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., is female, zoo staff announced Thursday (Sept. 5).
| Read More » Thunderstruck! Weather Balloons Look for Lightning's Signature  | Amid Florida's steamy and stormy summer, a group of researchers conducted something of a modern-day version of Benjamin Franklin's legendary lightning-kite experiment, only instead of tying a metal key to a kite, these scientists have weather balloons that they send into thunderclouds in order to learn more about how, when and where lightning forms.
| Read More » Happy Birthday, Voyager 1! Far-flung Spacecraft Is 36, But Has It Left the Solar System?  | Scientists debating whether or not NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has already left the solar system can come together today to celebrate an uncontroversial milestone — the venerable probe's 36th birthday.
| Read More » NASA Redesigns Mission Control for Future Spaceflights  | HOUSTON — NASA's Mission Control is gaining a new "look and feel," trading the "big blue consoles" that were iconic during the space shuttle program for upgraded "clean" workstations.
| Read More » New Clues To King Solomon's Mines Found  | New evidence that links the vast copper mines in southern tip of Israel to the reign of King Solomon has been discovered, archaeologists report.
| Read More » New Clues Emerge On How Corals Bleach  | Across the globe, reef-building corals live in symbiosis with algae, which provide the animals with food and their iconic brilliant color. But environmental stress — high temperatures, in particular — can kill corals by causing them to "bleach," a process in which they lose their vital algal friends and turn ghostly white.
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| Read More » Why New Approaches Will Strengthen African Nations (Op-Ed) LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More » Birth Defects Cluster in Washington Remains Mysterious Health officials investigating a spike in cases of a fatal birth defect in central Washington state have found no common cause linking the cases, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read More » Disease Outbreaks From US Drinking Water Still Take Lives Disease outbreaks due to drinking water aren't as common as they were, say, a century ago, but it's common for at least a dozen to occur yearly in the United States, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read More » Most Important School Subject? 'Science' Sees Big Jump in Poll The quest for knowledge seems to be gaining value, as three times as many Americans now say science is the most valuable school subject than did so more than a decade ago, a new Gallup poll finds. Read More » Is 'Numerosity' Humans' Sixth Sense?  | Whether it's determining the number of ships on the horizon or the number of cookies in a jar, the human brain has a "map" for perceiving numbers, new research shows.
| Read More » Fat or Thin: Gut Bacteria May Play Role Gut bacteria may be able to "spread" obesity from one organism to another when they are transplanted, at least in mice, a new study suggests. Read More » Interstellar Wind Changes Reveal Glimpse of Milky Way's Complexity  | Shifting cosmic winds suggest that our solar system lives in a surprisingly complex and dynamic part of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study reports.
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