|  Dominant Meerkat Mamas Force Others to Wet Nurse  | Meerkats may look cute and cuddly, but for some meerkats, motherhood is a raw deal. Dominant females often kill the young of subordinate females, which then often stick around to serve as her "wet nurses," new research finds.
| Read More » How Bad Will Cyclone Phailin Be for India?  | Disaster looms for India as ferocious Cyclone Phailin, currently equivalent in strength to a Category 5 hurricane, bears down on the subcontinent ahead of its expected landfall tomorrow night (Oct. 12), local time.
| Read More » Government Shutdown Closes Nation's Nuclear Labs  | The nation's nuclear labs are preparing to furlough more than 20,000 employees and shutter their science experiments, except for work essential to national security, because of the ongoing government shutdown.
| Read More » Northern Lights Dance Over Norway in Spectacular Video  | A dazzling northern lights show lit up the Norwegian night sky this week and a veteran space photographer captured the celestial display in a stunning new video.
| Read More » Scientists Cook Up Mars-Like Clouds On Earth In Former Nuclear Reactor  | Scientists have created Mars-like clouds in a former nuclear reactor here on Earth.
| Read More » Wow! Photographer Captures SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Like Never Before (Image)  | A photographer's road trip to see SpaceX's first Falcon 9 rocket launch from California last month led to this striking composite photo recently released to SPACE.com.
| Read More » US Army Finds Tech Solution to Soldiers' Altitude Sickness  | The United States Army is studying how the human body adapts to mountainous conditions in order to develop new tools to help deployed soldiers combat altitude sickness.
| Read More » 'The Walking Dead': How to Survive a Zombie Invasion  | The new season of AMC's "The Walking Dead" is just around the corner, which means one thing: Zombies are on the mind.
| Read More » Ambience Influences How Whisky Tastes  | A whisky sipped in a room smelling of fresh-cut grass with the sound of sheep "baa-ing" in the background tastes different from having the same drink in a sweet-smelling, red room with piano music playing, research suggests.
| Read More » Smelling Storms? Human Supersenses May Become a Reality  | SAN FRANCISCO — The ability to see using one's back, magnetic fingers or an ultraviolet sense of sight?
| Read More » Salmonella Outbreak: 5 Tips for Cooking Chicken Safely  | While the current salmonella outbreak may have people concerned about eating chicken, experts point out that raw meat products always carry risk.
| Read More » Incredible Technology: How to Use 'Shells' to Terraform a Planet  | One day, humans could re-make a world in Earth's image.
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