A computer virus infection has been found on the International Space Station (ISS), according to US media reports. Since the ISS has no direct internet connection, the infection must have been introduced either by a recently introduced laptop, or from med

Discovery of 1500 yr. old urban settlement in Brazilian jungle forces scientists to rethink the complexity (vs. simplicity) of early civilizations.

Artificial wombs and experiments on human embryos grown in the lab will be commonplace and no big deal ethically in 30 years, several scientists predict.

The glowing Crab Nebula, a spectacular and colorful object famously imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, represents the leftovers from a supernova explosion observed by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054 C.E.

Lackner, a geophysicist at Columbia University in New York, doesn't actually want to make trees. Rather, he wants to build devices that mimic one of the things real trees do: extract carbon dioxide (CO²) from air.

Get to know the world's most detailed slow camera: 80x slower! At this speed, everything looks like magic.

Although the idea that instrumental learning can occur subconsciously has been around for nearly a century, it had not been unequivocally demonstrated.

The mummified remains of a woman who died 500 years before the Incas have emerged from the rubble of an ancient tomb beneath the bustling streets of the Peruvian capital.

Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth's atmosphere and into space. Now, ESA's formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape.

New pictures from NASA's Phoenix Lander show just what a busy summer the spacecraft on Mars - and its science team at The University of Arizona in Tucson - has been having.