SCIENCE

The SpaceX rocket, the first commercial flight to the International Space Station, lifted off Sunday night carrying an unmanned cargo capsule.

Commemorating the World Space Week, NASA has launched a new mobile application that makes gamers in charge of a communications network, donning the role of space communications network manager who supports scientific missions.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for 2012 was awarded jointly to British scientist John B. Gurdon and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka for their work in stem cell research, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced Monday.

Over half of the children suffering from autism run away at least once and many go missing for a long duration, raising concerns.

A commercial supply spacecraft by the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. took off successfully with the supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida Sunday night. The cargo is the first of the 12 Commercial Resuppply Services (CRS) missions according to the SpaceX – NASA contract.

A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket, carrying its Dragon spacecraft, lifted off Sunday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 8:35 p.m. EDT. Designated SpaceX CRS-1, it was NASA’s first contracted cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station.

The known number of people with fungal meningitis in a multistate outbreak that has already killed seven rose to 91 on Sunday from 64 on Saturday, according to data provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NASA revealed Friday that its first ever year-long mission to the International Space Station (ISS) would launch in 2015 and it would feature two crew members from America and Russia.

NASA’s swift satellite has discovered a previously unknown stellar-mass Black Hole in our Milky Way galaxy.

An 11-year-old boy stumbled across the remains of a teenage woolly mammoth that is believed to have been killed by an Ice Age-era man tens of thousands of years ago 2,200 miles northeast of what is now Moscow.

The drug nelfinavir, used to treat HIV, proved effective in stopping the growth of HER2-positive breast cancer in lab mice.

The growing population of coyotes in U.S. cities may be a sign that other animals, like black bears and mountain lions, may start craving urban lifestyles in larger numbers.

The weather service AccuWeather predicts a snowy winter for the Eastern seaboard and near-drought conditions in the Northwest.

Archaeologists think they have discovered the burial spot of one of the Mayan civilizations most powerful rulers in Guatemala. The tomb has been identified as belonging to Lady K’abel, also known in her time as “Lady Snake Lord,” who was the warrior queen of the Wak people.

The Pegomastax africanus is nicknamed the “Dracula” dinosaur because of its serrated teeth.

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is now all set dig the Martian soil for the first time to sample the Red Planet.

A landslide in quake-hit Yunnan province of southwest China Thursday left 18 primary school students dead, news agencies reported citing Chinese officials.

If the packaging and freezing and reheating wasn’t enough to beat the taste out of your meal, scientists now know that altitude also changes how we taste food.

A Texas fisherman believes he found a mastodon tooth while fishing in the San Antonio River.

An outbreak of a rare and deadly form of meningitis has now sickened 26 people in five states who received steroid injections mostly for back pain.

Characteristics of a fossilized skull fragment belonging to a child that likely died 1.5 million years ago suggest humans began eating meat-heavy diets earlier than previously thought.

Foursquare now has its very first check-in from the surface of another world. As NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity was exploring the Red Planet, it took the time to let Earthlings know it was in Gale Crater via Foursquare on Wednesday.

A tiny fossil seems to show that a family of shell-less mollusks evolved from shelled cousins, rather than the other way around.

A study of more than 300 twins in Michigan found that genetics may tip the scale toward wanting to look like the airbrushed and thin ideal.

Spontaneous human combustion is still something of a mystery, but one scientist thinks a condition called ketosis may be a risk factor.

A woman caught riding a manatee, an endangered species in Florida, turned herself in to police.

The European Space Agency recently found a surprisingly super-chilly region in the warm atmosphere of Venus.

Scientists have created a cow that produces milk free of a protein that is commonly fingered as the source of dairy allergies.

A new report that finds a slight uptick in hospitalization of children due to severe injuries resulting from abuse seems to clash with child protective agency data.