Arizona Scientists Perfecting Leia-Like 3-D Holograms
University of Arizona/Nature
(Nov. 3) -- The flickering three-dimensional image of Princess Leia begging for help in "Star Wars" is moving out of the realm of Hollywood special effects and into reality. Scientists report today...
Scientists Witness Trail of Asteroid Collision
D. Jewitt, ESA / NASA
(Oct. 13) -- For the first time ever, scientists have front-row seats to one of the solar system's great demolition derbies. Stargazers have long known that asteroids slam into each other every now...
First Ocean Life Census Finds 6,000 New Species
Census of Marine Life
LONDON (Oct. 4) -- Taking a census of marine life is not as easy as knocking on doors. But after a 10-year effort that included diving into icy waters, guiding robots into pitch-black depths and...
Bizarre New Dinosaur Species Found in Utah
Lukas Panzarin, Utah Museum of Natural History/AP
(Sept. 22) -- Scientists say they've found two new dinosaur species in Utah that are among the most bizarre and blinged out ever discovered. The Utah reptiles belong to the horned-dinosaur family,...
Breed of Crow Uses a Tool to Catch Its Grub
University of Oxford Zoology Department
(Sept. 16) -- Think you know your way around a toolbox? The New Caledonian crow could give you a run for your money – and it's helping scientists shed light on why an elite group of animals...
Close Encounters: Is the Sky Falling ... Again?
AFP / Getty Images
(Sept. 8) -- This evening, a visitor from outer space will pass a hair's breadth from Earth. A space rock known as 2010 RF12 will whisk so close that even though it is too small to do any damage if...
Researchers in Israel Find World's First Steak Knives
Courtesy Ran Barkai
(July 22) -- Archaeologists digging in a cave in Israel have found what looks to be the world's first cutlery: tiny stone knives dating back at least 200,000 years that would have been used to cut...
Autism Study: Baby's Babble May Contain Vital Clues
Getty Images
(July 19) -- To a parent's ears, there's nothing more enchanting than the babble of a child learning to talk. Now research shows that those nonsense syllables could contain coded signals that a...
Find Reveals Early Humans Who Endured Harsh Cold
John Sibbick, AHOB
LONDON (July 7) -- Scientists have depicted early humans as wimps who couldn't hack it in chilly northern climates, but a newly discovered cache of stone tools is forcing archaeologists to revise...
NASA Boosts Efforts to Spot Earth-Smashing Asteroids
Don Davis, NASA
(June 30) -- Killer asteroids, beware. NASA is watching. Astronomers have long worried that a large space rock would remain undetected until it was about to smash into Earth, in what might be called...
Amazonian Indians More Advanced Than We Knew
Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images
(June 25) -- For decades, archaeologists thought of the Amazonian Indians as lowly hunter-gatherers who inhabited widely scattered villages and barely eked out a living in the harsh landscape. Now...
Japanese Spaceship Tries to Bring Cosmis Dust Back to Earth
JAXA
Correction, June 14: An earlier version of this story mistakenly asserted that the Japanese spaceship called Hayabusa was the first to land on an asteroid. While other spacecrafts have landed on...
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