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The European X-ray free electron laser will officially open early September, but it produced its first X-ray laser light this week.

A study of 492 protected sites around the continental U.S. revealed that in nearly two-thirds of these areas, noise from human activities was twice as high as natural background sound levels.

A new process that uses water could significantly reduce the amount of the greenhouse gas pumped into Earth’s atmosphere.

Astronomers say this new planet they found is like Jupiter but much hotter, and that makes for some freaky clouds and weather patterns.

Jupiter’s enormous swirling red storm, its Great Red Spot, is shrinking so much that it is changing shape and could soon be the size of Earth.

Analysis of the satellite imagery showed numerous structures that will likely serve a military purpose.

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who turns 96 in June, will continue to attend previously scheduled royal engagements till August but won’t take up any new invitations.

The proof-of-concept experiment proves that it is possible — at least in theory — for future lunar colonists to build habitats using material available in situ.

The new species discovered was one of the last dinosaurs on Earth and was among those that disappeared in the mass extinction event 66 million years ago.

The biggest and most active volcanoes in world were formed when the Pacific tectonic plate changed direction about three million years ago.

A fresh analysis of the apparent slowdown in the rate of rise of global temperatures between 1998 and 2012 has shown that the phenomenon was the result of natural short-term variability that does not affect long-term climate projections.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will be celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary this year on Nov. 20.

Rumors about the 95-year old prince’s death cropped up early Thursday after a British tabloid reported the queen's senior aides were called in for an emergency meeting.

The Duke of Edinburgh has been known for his blunt and racist remarks, often stirring controversy.

Venezuela’s popular journalist Leopoldo Castillo tweeted earlier in the day saying 46-year-old Lopez was taken from the Ramo Verde military jail outside Caracas to the hospital without vital signs.

Earlier Thursday, reports surfaced the Duke of Edinburgh, who will turn 96 this June, had died.

If hybrid mesons, which are identical to ordinary mesons in composition but quite different in behavior, are discovered, it would help us expand our understanding of the strong nuclear force.

Extensive preparation and the perfect conditions were necessary to capture the image.

Females prefer a certain bone to be bigger, and understanding how it works in gorillas tells us something about sex between our ancient human relatives.

Seals share their living environment with lots of ships, and the noise from that traffic could be damaging their hearing and affecting their ability to find food and mate.

The fire broke out over the weekend in an area that has remained uninhabited due to high radiation levels.

This system, which is just 10.5 light-years from Earth, is 800 million years old, and could help scientists understand how our solar system formed and evolved.

Experiments conducted by a team of linguists suggest people who fluently speak two languages think about time differently than those who speak only one.

A zoomable image released Wednesday by the European Southern Observatory shows the nearby dwarf galaxy in unprecedented detail.

A team of researchers has come up with a technique to “breed” Schrödinger’s cats, and has, in the process, figured out a way to create cats with much bigger amplitude than ever before.

Topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge were published by French magazine Closer in 2012, in a “grotesque and totally unjustifiable” invasion of her privacy.

The newly observed crack branches off from the older and much bigger one, is over nine miles long at present and is headed in the direction of the ice-front.

According to a new study, the mysterious excess of high-energy gamma ray emissions coming from the Milky Way’s centre is most likely caused by pulsars and not dark matter as previously thought.

Wild dogs steal a meal from cheetahs by taunting them, bouncing around and laughing like little creeps to scare away the fast cats.