A Seattle teams has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space — an idea spurred by science

The massive machine at the center of the world's biggest scientific experiment has malfunctioned again – derailed by a bit of bread dropped by a bird

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Punishment beatings have been banned from Chinese camps set up to cure teenage internet addicts after one of them died

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A rare haul of Iron Age jewelry discovered by an amateur treasure hunter is being unveiled by the Museum of Scotland

A woman from Texas is suing Facebook and Blockbuster for posting information about her online.

A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean or sea

Pink, slimy and repellent, the Nomura’s jellyfish is an authentic horror of the deep. Now the creatures have sunk a 10-ton fishing trawler

A husband and wife team of paleontologists has discovered a newfound species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana

NASA's Mars rover Spirit is suffering a new bout of amnesia, one that comes after months of being stuck in deep Martian sand.

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Japanese engineers have taken us one step closer to the robot revolution by developing a machine inspired by the movie Aliens.

On October 29, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock sent the first message across the Internet, and it was all of two letters: 'lo.' It crashed the entire system. The Internet was born.

At 11:30 a.m. this morning, the Ares 1-X rocket blasted off through clear skies at Cape Canaveral