New photos have been released by NASA, as their Dawn spacecraft has captured stunning new imagery of asteroid Vesta.
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‘Lost’ Rainbow Toad Rediscovered After 87 Years
Researchers have announced the first photographs ever captured of the rare Borneo Rainbow Toad -- after the species hadn't been seen for 87 years.
Read More »All Polar Bears Can Trace Ancestry to One Irish Brown Bear
Scientists were shocked when it was discovered that every living polar bear today can trace their ancestry back to one female brown bear in Ireland.
Read More »Researchers Develop Acoustic Cloak that Makes Ships ‘Invisible’ on Sonar
Using nothing but a few pieces of plastic with strategically drilled holes, researchers have successfully invented an invisibility "cloak" that could make ships undetectable on sonar.
Read More »Beautiful Moon Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA's lunar spacecraft has sent back over 192 Terabytes of data -- including some gorgeous new photos of the moon's terrain.
Read More »Linking Computers and Brain Signals… for Science
New technology involving wireless electrodes gives humans the ability to manipulate objects with brain signals.
Read More »June is “Don’t Get Struck by Lightning” Month
To help you avoid becoming a creepy albino lightning freak like that kid from "Powder", NASA is going to have one of their scientists available this Thursday to answer any of your lightning-related questions.
Read More »Only YOU Can Help NASA Find Icy Plutonian Worlds
Millions of NASA photos need to be scanned for icy objects before the New Horizons spacecraft flies by Pluto in 2015. NASA has teamed up with IceHunters to give you the ability to be part of the search.
Read More »Apparently We ‘Just’ Discovered Mercury Has Water
Scientists have spent centuries studying our solar system. However, apparently we don't know everything about one of our closest planetary neighbors.
Read More »Earth Shoots 50-Mile-High Jets of Lightning in Retaliation Against Space
Jets of lighting can shoot upward toward space, and reach distances 50 miles above the Earth's surface. Harness this and we have a pretty sweet anti-everything weapon.
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