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[ad_1] Giant elephant birds may have coexisted with people for millennia. VELIZAR SIMEONVSKI By Andrew LawlerSep. 12, 2018, 2:00 PM Lying about 425 kilometers off the African coast, Madagascar was long thought …

[ad_1] This photo provided by NASA shows Hurricane Florence of the International Space Station on Monday, September 10, 2018. According to forecasters, Florence could become an extremely dangerous hurricane on Friday morning …

[ad_1] Long ago, in the pre-iPhone dark ages of 2006, Pluto was rebranded from its status as a planet and downgraded to dwarf planet classification, changing high school physics class forever. Forever …

[ad_1] Gram-negative bacteria like the Klebsiella pneumoniae shown here have an outer membrane that makes them impervious to many drugs, but a new compound from Genentech can break the border and cripple …

[ad_1] Unlike most of the stellar explosions that are disappearing, the 2012 SN supernova continues to shine today thanks to a powerful new pulsar. Credit: NASA, ESA and J. DePasquale (STScI) The …

[ad_1] <! – -> <! –-> Telstar 18 VANTAGE launched from Cape Canaveral on Monday WATCH: The SpaceX launcher arrives in Port Canaveral after the launch early Monday morning. It was a …

[ad_1] Listeria bacteria carry electrons through their cell wall in the environment as tiny currents, assisted by ubiquitous flavin molecules (yellow dots). Credit: Amy Cao. Copyright UC Berkeley. While bacteria producing electricity …

[ad_1] The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured this image of a giant hole (dark area at the top) in the outside atmosphere of the sun, or corona, on September 11, 2018. …

[ad_1] Nine of the red lines on a stone flake found in a South African cave could be the first known drawing made by Homo sapiens, archaeologists reported on Wednesday. The artifact, …

[ad_1] For centuries, the work of scientists and military planners has often gone hand in hand. Here NowJeremy Hobson learns more from the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson), who writes about this …