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NASA scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have confirmed that an “impossible” space engine could actually work and might be able to radically alter space exploration missions. The study, released by NASA scientists, showed that a microwave thruster system requiring no propellant would appear to generate a small amount of thrust. If the technology is successful, it could …

A 20-year-old man has been bitten by a white shark while surfing at Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town on Friday, the National Sea Rescue Institute said.

A new Global Positioning System satellite was launched into space late Friday night atop an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket that lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

A team of rescue workers in California toiled for hours to free an unlikely victim — a 16 million-year-old whale fossil trapped in a 1,000-pound rock in Rancho Palos Verdes, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

A drop in testosterone levels around 50,000 years ago led the the development of art and tools, researchers believe. They say the drop, which led to a change in the shape of skulls, coincided with a blossoming in culture. The two could be linked, as humans developed a more co-operative outlook as levels dropped.

Hundreds of swimmers have been flocking to a mysterious new lake in the Gafsa region of southern Tunisia, but the sudden appearance of the body of water in the drought-stricken area has raised concerns about its origin and quality. Hailed as a miracle by locals, authorities have warned the lake could actually be radioactive.

This little cutie is a “geep” — that is, a half-goat, half-sheep hybrid. The unexpected kid, or lamb was born at an Arizona petting zoo.

Massive meat-eating ground-dwelling dinosaurs shrunk over 50 million years and evolved into agile flying birds, according to new research from the University of Southampton. Scientists there have presented in the journal Science a detailed family tree of dinosaurs and their bird descendants, which maps out the evolutionary transformation.

The fossilized remains of a crow shark that is believed to be 80 to 90 million years old has the experts talking at a Manitoba fossil museum, 39 years after it was unearthed at a mine site. The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, Man., had the Squalicorax remains in its collection room since 1975, but it wasn’t until this …

Small blue sails the size of an adult’s hand are covering the pure waters of California’s Monterey Bay as thousands of velella velellas are blown from the ocean to the shore.

Unlike our own lone Sun, most solar systems contain a pair of binary stars; scientists recently observed a pair of “wildly-misaligned” planet-forming disks in a young binary system called HK Tau. The findings, published today in the journal Nature, were made using the Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory reported. The results reveal the clearest-ever picture of protoplanetary …