Oftentimes when a product recall warrants a health risk rating of "High" by the U.S. Government the food contains something dangerous. Sometimes it's foreign matter,…
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Mosquitoes are a summertime pest that most of us have just learned to deal with. You can treat your lawn and use bug spray, but…
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NASA really, really wants its own rocket. The agency has been shoveling money into a number of programs — including agreements with SpaceX and Boeing…
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Debris from a fireball that streaked across the sky on the East Coast of the United States earlier this week has yet to be found,…
Read MoreSpaceX is spinning a lot of plates these days — from various contracts with NASA to agreements with many smaller clients to launch various satellites…
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Thanks to powerful telescopes that can detect large objects at extreme distances, we earthlings have a pretty good idea of the space rocks that pose…
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When a person or their family decides that, after death, their body will be donated to science, they likely don't imagine having their earthly remains…
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Thanks to the nature of light and the fact that it can only move so fast, peering at objects far away means that astronomers can…
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The big "planet killer" asteroids of science fiction may be avoiding Earth for the time being, but there are plenty of smaller chunks of space…
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SpaceX has sent a whopping 17 resupply mission to the International Space Station over the course of its contract with NASA. Most of the time,…
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SpaceX has successfully performed many resupply missions for the crew of the International Space Station, sending vital supplies to the orbiting laboratory using its Falcon…
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When you get a small cut or scrape you probably reach for an ordinary bandage, which is typically nothing more than an adhesive strip holding…
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If you've been taking aspirin every day to lower your risk of heart attack, despite not having an existing history of heart problems, a new…
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Humans have never set foot on Mars, but that's not stopping scientists from doing their best to understand what it might be like when that…
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The International Space Station is home to a half dozen scientists for the majority of the year, and those brave space travelers carry out all…
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If you're even a casual science fan you've likely heard of the cordyceps fungi group before. The genus includes hundreds of known species, but the…
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When NASA and other space agencies from around the world eventually send humans back to the Moon in the coming decades they'll likely be doing…
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For astronomers, discovering new worlds, stars, and even entire galaxies is really only half the battle. Once discovered, explaining how new features of space formed,…
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Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director and a huge driving force behind the mission that eventually sent astronauts to the Moon, died just days after…
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Once you get down deep enough in Earth's oceans, sunlight is hard to come by. But rather than stumble around in the dark in search…
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A trio of international space travelers successfully arrived at the International Space Station over the weekend. The arrival of the new crew members brings the…
Read MoreThere are probably a lot of things that annoy doctors. Patients diving into symptom-tracking websites like WebMD and convincing themselves they have a dire illness…
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India's Space Research Organization expected to launch its Chandrayaan-2 mission last week, pushing the country one big step closer to becoming the fourth country to…
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There are few things worse than seeing an elite performance ruined by claims of performance-enhancing drugs, but alas, this is the world we live in.…
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We humans tend to take our ability to chew and swallow for granted, but as mammals we actually have a pretty complicated system of bones…
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A mother-of-two from England was misdiagnosed with cancer three years ago, with doctors telling her she had a particularly aggressive form of the disease that…
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The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing is this weekend, and NASA has a whole lineup of awesome programming ready for all of us.…
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