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Pandas Devour Ice Cake to Celebrate 50 Years at National Zoo

The “cake” was made from frozen fruit juice, sweet potatoes, carrots and sugar cane and...

Fuel Leak Thwarts NASA’s Dress Rehearsal for Moon Rocket

NASA's latest attempt to fuel its huge moon rocket for a countdown test was thwarted...

SpaceX Launches 3 Visitors to Space Station for $55M Each

NASA joins Russia in hosting guests at the world’s most expensive tourist destination.

Key Particle Weighs in a Bit Heavy, Confounding Physicists

The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major...

Darwin Notebooks Missing for 20 Years Returned to Cambridge

Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University's library have...

US Astronaut Ends Record-Long Spaceflight in Russian Capsule

NASA astronaut caught a Russian ride back to Earth after a U.S. record 355 days...

Scientists Figure out How Vampire Bats Got a Taste for Blood

Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on...

US Astronaut to Ride Russian Spacecraft Home During Tensions

U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but...

Antarctic Explorer Shackleton’s Ship Found After a Century

Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance,...

Space Junk on 5,800-MPH Collision Course with Moon

The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk.

‘Superbly Preserved’ Pterosaur Fossil Unearthed in Scotland

The fossil of a 170 million-year-old pterosaur, described as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the...

Stuttering: Unraveling the Biology of a Mysterious Condition

For centuries, people have feared being judged for stuttering, a condition often misunderstood as a...