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Thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission's Wide Angle Camera (WAC), a high resolution virtual Moon rotation movie has now been composed.
The following letter was sent by Larry Summers to President Obama, in which he withdrew his name for consideration to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
There is often disagreement between what the public considers controversial and what scientists consider controversial.
It is unclear how extensively the radiation has been spread by other fish throughout the ocean’s ecosystem.
Voyager 1 is the first man-made object to reach interstellar space, NASA has been able to confirm, based on measurements of the ionized gas that the spaceship travels through.
Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted "I've never understood those who assert that killing people with chemicals is worse than blowing them to bits with a bomb." What do you think?
The change away from having to experience darkness, which we take for granted, is arguably one of the greatest disruptions of the natural order in the whole modern human experience.
After billions of years of "torturous evolution," an intelligent civilization might finally come about, only to "snuff themselves out in an instant of unforgivable neglect."
What's a toilet worth? The infographic below shows the annual cost of lack of access to sanitation.
NASA's "black-hole-hunter" spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has serendipitously discovered its first 10 supermassive black holes.
Elon Musk tends to be interested in industries that "a lot of people think are impossible or think you can’t succeed at - that’s usually where there’s opportunity."
This video, courtesy of EarthCam, highlights the progress at the World Trade Center site from October, 2004 to September, 2013.
Daniel Dennett, one of the best-known living philosophers and a professor at Tufts University, feels it’s time to unmask the philosopher’s art and make thought experimentation accessible to a wider audience.
SpaceShipTwo's second rocket powered test flight reached supersonic speeds of over 1,000 mph.
Could the international imbroglio surrounding Syria be solved so simply?
At least one in ten stars are orbited by an Earth-sized planet, according to data taken by NASA's Kepler spacecraft.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk reveals a rocket design by using an interactive ‘Iron Man’-like computer interface that responds to his gestures.
What do these pictures tell us, and what do they fail to tell us?
"Rote recitation, day in and day out, is ultimately meaningless."
The office of the future is not going to look anything like the office of today.