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After Tesla CEO Elon Musk baselessly accused British cave diver and Thai cave rescue hero Vern Unsworth of being a pedo, Tesla shares fell by 2.75% on Monday, knocking almost $2bn off the company's va

In the future, plants will be able to create their own fertilizer. Farmers will no longer need to buy and spread fertilizer for their crops, and increased food production will benefit billions of people around the world, who might otherwise go hungry.

DNA-cutting enzyme used for genetic modification can create large deletions and shuffle genes.

At an archaeological site in northeastern Jordan, researchers have discovered the charred remains of a flatbread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago. It is the oldest direct evidence of bread found to date, predating the advent of agriculture by at

Commercial space travel just moved one step closer to reality. While sci-fi visions of traversing the vastness of space is still a while away, starting next year, willing customers will be able to ta

When Ross 128b was first discovered last fall, the Earth-sized exoplanet was hailed as a primary candidate in the search for alien life. Located a mere 11 light-years away from our home planet, Ross 128b practically lies on our cosmic doorstep and is, in

An international team of astrophysicists will reveal a major discovery Thursday (July 12), and you can watch the announcement live.

A freshwater flood coming from Canada's Mackenzie River flowed into the North Atlantic Ocean 13,000 years ago. This created extreme weather disturbances that abruptly caused a mini Ice Age.

Ancient-genome study finds that indigenous dogs in North and South America split from other domestic canines around 15,000 years ago.

The National Archives and Records Administration uses science and technology to keep one of America's most important historic documents safe.

The essential building blocks of life have been discovered emanating from the subsurface ocean of one of Saturn's moons.

On March 7, 2018, NASA planetary scientist Marc Fries watched on a weather radar as meteorites plunged into the Pacific Ocean. Four months later, on July 2, Fries and a group of marine researchers plan to pull these meteorites — chunks of primordial

We already know that Google's new 2018 flagship phones, the Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3 XL, are going to be big and expensive. Now, thanks to reliable leakers @OnLeaks, and MySmartPrice, we've got render

NASA's most powerful observational tool currently in development is the James Webb Space Telescope. It's the heir apparent to the Hubble Space Telescope, and although it works slightly ...

An enormous asteroid has come so close to Earth that it's visible to the naked eye. The space rock, known as 4 Vesta is four times the size of the UK and so bright that it can be spotted from 106 million miles away. It's visible in both hemisphere

Canadian researchers have discovered a new and direct molecular mechanism to stop cancer cells from proliferating. In the prestigious journal Nature Cell Biology, scientists from Universit de Montral show that a disruption of a fine balance in the composi

The agency tried to suppress a major toxicology report on perfluoroalkyl chemicals, but now it's been quietly released online -- with alarming conclusions.

Reductions in water use first observed in 2010 continue, show ongoing effort towards "efficient use of critical water resources."

Search considered successful "dress rehearsal" for exoplanet hunter TESS.

Beach sand can harbor a number of bacteria, parasites and fungi that are linked with diseases.