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Oregon scientists successfully clone stem cells

9:03 AM, May 16, 2013

Scientists at Oregon Health and Science University have successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to become embryonic stem cells capable of transforming into any other cell type in the body..

NASA: Space station power system radiator leaking

6:27 AM, May 10, 2013

The International Space Station has a radiator leak in its power system. The outpost's commander calls the situation serious, but not life-threatening.

NASA's next mission to explore Earth's icy Greenland

11:42 AM, May 8, 2013

Mars may have rover, but Earth has GROVER. And NASA has high hopes for the robot's powers of detection. This is a new way of tracking climate change and extreme weather.

NY group buys Tesla property, plans science center

10:17 AM, May 7, 2013

A New York community group that raised $1.3 million in a six-week Internet crowd funding effort last year has purchased a laboratory once used by visionary scientist Nikola Tesla.

Researchers find possible lost continent in Atlantic

10:04 AM, May 7, 2013

A large slab of granite has been found deep in the Atlantic Ocean, Japanese researchers said on Tuesday (May 7), suggesting a continent may have once existed off the coast of Brazil.

East about to be overrun by billions of cicadas

1:25 PM, May 6, 2013

Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will creep out of the ground and overrun parts of the East Coast.

NASA captures sun eruption on video

12:36 PM, May 2, 2013

NASA released time lapse video on Wednesday (May 1) showing a coronal mass ejection (CME) erupting from just around the edge of the sun.

'Lucy' fossil returns home in Ethiopia

8:05 AM, May 2, 2013

A famous fossil that holds key to scientific evidence of human evolution returned home in Ethiopia Wednesday after a five-year tour activity abroad.

Lyrids meteor shower lights up night sky

7:30 AM, Apr 22, 2013

A meteor shower lit up the night sky at it's peak Sunday night, but it's not over.

NASA sees distant planets that seem ideal for life

11:11 AM, Apr 19, 2013

NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like places for some sort of life to flourish. They are just the right size and in just the right place near their star.

Scientists decode DNA of 'living fossil' fish

1:56 PM, Apr 17, 2013

Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, giving them new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor.

Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos

4:03 PM, Apr 4, 2013

The International Space Station is shedding new light on so-called dark matter. That's the mysterious glue that is believed to hold galaxies together, but scientists just can't prove it exists.

Da Vinci's incredible anatomy sketches to be displayed at UK festival

6:54 AM, Mar 13, 2013

He is renowned as one of the finest artists of the Renaissance, but Leonardo da Vinci was also one of the greatest anatomists the world has ever seen.

Physicists on Higgs hunt: Nearly there but not yet

1:04 PM, Mar 6, 2013

Physicists in Italy said Wednesday they are closer to concluding that what they found last year was the elusive "God particle."