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Exploring in a laboratory what's dreaded in nature, a team of Chinese scientists have combined H5N1 avian influenza, which is highly lethal but doesn't transmit easily between people, with the pandemic 2009 flu strain.

A wave of new laws target animal welfare activists who take undercover farm videos -- and it's not just animal health that's threatened. Some public health experts say these "ag-gag" laws will cloak disease-spreading practices in secrecy, putting people at ...

A wave of new laws target animal welfare activists who take undercover farm videos -- and it's not just animal health that's threatened. Some public health experts say these "ag-gag" laws will cloak disease-spreading practices in secrecy, putting people at ...

Building a better bot sometimes means looking outside the shop for inspiration. Here are a few of the most awesome and most terrifying biomimetic robots around.

Building a better bot sometimes means looking outside the shop for inspiration. Here are a few of the most awesome and most terrifying biomimetic robots around.

NASA astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou, a senior scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been selected for membership in the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original scientific research.

A new NASA airborne mission has created the first maps of the entire snowpack of two major mountain watersheds in California and Colorado, producing the most accurate measurements to date of how much water they hold.

A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1, 2013, in a gigantic rolling wave. CMEs can shoot over a billion tons of particles into space at over a million miles per ...

A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1, 2013, in a gigantic rolling wave. CMEs can shoot over a billion tons of particles into space at over a million miles per ...

Scientists have built a digital camera inspired by the compound eyes of insects such as bees and flies. The camera's hemispherical array of 180 microlenses give it a 160˚ field of view and the ability to focus simultaneously on objects ...

Scientists have built a digital camera inspired by the compound eyes of insects such as bees and flies. The camera's hemispherical array of 180 microlenses give it a 160˚ field of view and the ability to focus simultaneously on objects ...

Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will visit NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and testing facilities at the agency's Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss., Friday, May 3.

A NASA program supporting innovative approaches to sustainability challenges has received an Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere.

NASA's newest scientific rover is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of Greenland.

NASA has selected 14 proposals from small business and research institution teams to continue development of innovative technologies that are needed for future NASA missions and could become viable commercial products and services.

A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft safely landed during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wednesday.

An asteroid that will be explored by a NASA spacecraft has a new name, thanks to a third-grade student in North Carolina.

Scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. This unusually large reservoir of gas contains as much mass as 10 billion Suns, spans about 300,000 light years, ...

Scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. This unusually large reservoir of gas contains as much mass as 10 billion Suns, spans about 300,000 light years, ...