|  Frog Photobombs NASA Moon Probe Launch (Photo)  | Sorry Kermit, no moon launch for you.
| Read More » Early Talkers More Likely to Grow into Teen Drinkers Parenting competitions can start early. How old children are when they utter their first words, walk or learn to read can all be topics of parental comparisons. But a new study in Finland found a twist: Children with advanced language skills were more likely to drink alcohol as teens. Read More » Like a Good Wine: How Your Age Affects Your Hangover Contrary to popular belief, older people are less likely to report experiencing a hangover after a night of drinking, according to a new study from Denmark. Read More » Scientists confirm Voyager 1 probe is in interstellar space  | By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Scientists have been debating for more than a year as to whether NASA's 36-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has left the solar system and become the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. By a fluke measurement, they now know definitively that it has. "We made it," lead Voyager scientist Edward Stone, from the California Institute of Technology, told reporters on Thursday. The definitive piece of evidence came by chance when a pair of solar flares blasted charged particles in Voyager's direction in 2011 and 2012. ...
| Read More » Ig Nobel Awards: How to Watch Live Tonight  | The Ig Nobel prizes honor science that first makes people laugh and then makes them think. And tonight, those scientists who have made real, and hilarious, contributions to their fields, will receive awards in a whimsical ceremony at Harvard University.
| Read More » Voyager 1: How Big Is the Solar System?  | Voyager 1 has left the solar system. The big news that the spacecraft reached interstellar space on Aug. 25, 2012, after its decades-long sojourn begs the question: Just how far did it have to travel to knock on cold, dark space's door?
| Read More » Scientists confirm Voyager 1 probe is in interstellar space  | By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Scientists have been debating for more than a year whether NASA's 36-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has left the solar system and become the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. By a fluke measurement, they now know definitively it has. "We made it," lead Voyager scientist Edward Stone, from the California Institute of Technology, told reporters on Thursday. The key piece of evidence came by chance when a pair of solar flares blasted charged particles in Voyager's direction in 2011 and 2012. ...
| Read More » Energy Drink Studies May Be Clouded by Industry Ties The involvement of energy drink companies in research into their products has prevented clear answers about the risks these drinks may pose, argues a new editorial in a prominent medical journal. Read More » Ig Nobel Prizes: A Duck-Gnawed Penis & Dung Beetles Steal the Show  | CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Amid a flurry of paper airplanes, hosts adorned with little more than silver body paint, and the world's first and only opera about a centrifugal-force birthing machine, the 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded tonight (Sept. 12).
| Read More » Voyager 1 Probe Captures 1st-Ever Sounds of Interstellar Space (Video)  | Thanks to NASA's far-flung Voyager 1 spacecraft, now exploring the final frontier beyond our solar system, humanity can tune into the sounds of interstellar space.
| Read More » Spellbinding Northern Lights Shimmer Over Finland (Photo)  | The northern lights dance is stunning blue and green hues as they light up the night sky over Oulunsalo, Finland in this captivating night sky photo sent in to SPACE.com.
| Read More » Phone Sensors Could Meld with Human Body Microscopic sensors and motors in smartphones detect movement, and could one day help their cameras focus. Now scientists have devised components for these machines that are compatible with the human body, potentially making them ideal for use in medical devices such as bionic limbs and other artificial body parts, researchers say. Read More » Strange Case of 'Hyper Empathy' after Brain Surgery In a strange case, a woman developed "hyper empathy" after having a part of her brain called the amygdala removed in an effort to treat her severe epilepsy, according to a report of her case. Empathy is the ability to recognize another person's emotions. Read More » Friday the 13th: Why Humans Are So Superstitious Despite having well-developed brains, complex technologies and centuries of scientific progress, the human species remains a fearful, superstitious lot. And what better day to revisit the nature of superstition than Friday the 13th? Read More » Hormone Replacement Therapy May Reduce Pancreatic Cancer Risk One type of hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women may decrease the risk of pancreatic cancer, a new study suggests. Read More » Hurricane Hunting Drones Probe Storms' Anatomy  | WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — Off the coast of Bermuda, in the North Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Storm Gabrielle is churning. More than 700 miles (1,100 kilometers) away, here on a quiet island on the East Coast of the United States, NASA scientists on Tuesday (Sept. 10) were preparing to study the storm, using a drone that can fly above the swirling mass of clouds to examine how they form and grow.
| Read More » Why Has It Been So Long Since a Major Hurricane Hit the US?  | The United States hasn't been any stranger to hurricanes in the last eight years. Hurricane Sandy, for example, caused about $50 billion in damage and was responsible for more than 150 U.S. deaths last year, although the storm was technically an extra-tropical cyclone when it hit.
| Read More » Can the Planet (and Humans) Survive Technology?  | WASHINGTON — Charles Dickens could have been talking about the 21st century when he wrote the lines: "These are the best of times, these are the worst of times." Technology can extend human life and take us into space, but it is also destroying the environment and threatening the survival of other species and humanity.
| Read More » Lefty or Righty? Genes for Handedness Found Genes that play a role in the orientation of internal organs may also affect whether someone is right- or left-handed, new research suggests. Read More » Why One Microbe Doesn't Age Aging is an inevitable fact of life for most organisms, but one particular microbe has found a way to avoid getting older, at least in a sense, a new study finds. Read More » Non-Grapefruit and Fruitful Non-Science  | Non-Grapefruit and Fruitful Non-Science
| Read More » Best Time to See the Moon This Month Is Now  | The next few nights are the best times of the month to observe the surface of the moon with telescopes, binoculars or even your naked eye. That's because the sun is rising along the center line of the moon, casting the lunar mountains and craters in high relief.
| Read More » Undersea Astronauts Practice Spacewalks on Ocean Floor  | While taking a break from spacewalk practice on Thursday (Sept. 12), an astronaut consulted a checklist of activities only to be visited by ... a large fish?
| Read More » What Goes Up, Must Come Down: Balloonist Abandons Transatlantic Voyage  | Balloonist Jonathan Trappe, who was attempting to set a new world record by becoming the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean by cluster ballooning, has abandoned his effort and landed in a remote part of Canada.
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