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Using an Australian radio telescope, an international team of researchers has caught an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust in the process of collapsing in on itself

The Omni-focus Video Camera, based on an entirely new distance-mapping principle, delivers automatic real-time focus of both near and far field images, simultaneously, in high resolution

For insight into what can happen when the Earth's carbon cycle is altered -- a cause and consequence of climate change -- scientists can look to an event that occurred some 720 million years ago

An international team of astrophysicists has just unveiled the most complete atlas of nuclear rings, enormous star-forming ring-shaped regions that circle certain galactic nuclei

An important step towards this elusive goal has been taken by a team of researchers. Discovered is an inexpensive metal catalyst that can effectively generate hydrogen gas from water

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur with a softball-sized lump of solid bone on top of its skull

New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton strengthens the case that two mid-sized black holes exist close to the center of a nearby starburst galaxy

Asteroids may not be the dark, dry, lifeless chunks of rock scientists have long thought

New research indicates that one of the largest fresh-water floods in Earth's history happened about 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska that is now occupied in part by the city of Wasilla

A substance similar to capsaicin, which gives chili peppers their heat, is generated at the site of pain in the human body