Charles Poladian

A local teenager died in southern Kyrgyzstan from the bubonic plague after eating marmot.

Students in Switzerland are developing a foosball robot that could soon play the game as well as, or even better than, a human.

The Great Bull Run held its first event in the United States, bringing 4,000 thrill-seekers to Virginia to run with the bulls.

The deadline to apply to Mars One to become a Mars colonist is just days away. Apply now before it's too late!

Researchers have created a new mathematical model using Wikipedia stats that could lead to accurate predictions of box-office success.

Hundred of images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope have been used to create a movie of a "space Slinky," a jet of gas being ejected by a supermassive black hole.

Astronomers have observed a "fluffy" layer above Ry Tau's dust disk which could help in the creation of new planets.

Chelsea Manning announced her decision to undergo hormone therapy to change her sex, but will it also affect her incarceration at Leavenworth?

Beyond the science, physics is quite beautiful and the "Covariance" art installation explores the art behind particle detectors.

A new "Boyfriend Tracker" app has generated plenty of controversy and concerns over privacy in Brazil.

New technology is helping astronomers create the sharpest images ever of space, and a new optics system has led to several discoveries recently published in the Astrophysical Journal.

NASA released a collage made from the more than 1,400 images submitted as part of the "Wave at Saturn" campaign.

Researchers believe "zombie vortices," dead spots within a gas disk, may aid in the birth of a new star.

On Wednesday, New Zealand has passed a new bill that allows for domestic spying by the country's spy agency.

A team of Princeton researchers have figured out a way to embed radios onto thin sheets of plastic that can be placed anywhere, on any surface.

NASA announced the eight members of the 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class at the Johnson Space Center on Tuesday.

Animal regeneration is still something of a mystery, but new flatworm research could answer that century-old question.

Maria Sharapova may temporarily change her name to Maria Sugarpova to promote her candy business during the 2013 U.S Open.

Astronomers were able to capture a detailed photo of a Herbig-Haro object, created by the violent collision of ejected material from a young star with surrounding gas and dust.

The CDC determined unpasteurized tempeh as the source of a 2012 salmonella and the agency says there should be more awareness about handling the product.

Neanderthals are proving to be quite culturally complex and new research indicates different societies had their own handaxe traditions passed down from generation to generation.

Astronomers may have discovered how some free-floating planets may have formed within a dense gas cloud instead of being kicked out of an existing system orbiting a star.

Researchers have discovered an exoplanet named Kepler 78b that completes an orbit around its host star in just 8.5 hours.

A new study associates soda consumption with aggression and other behavioral problems in young children.

According to a new study, drinking more than four cups of coffee a day is associated with a greater than 50 percent increased mortality risk in individuals under the age of 55.

The 160 million year-old fossilized remains of "Wrinkly Tooth," an ancient ancestor of modern rodents, were discovered in China.

North Korea's announcement of a new smartphone, the Arirang, has been met with skepticism by tech experts.

A new study has sparked plenty of debate as researchers believe NASA's Voyager 1 has already reached interstellar space while NASA disagrees.

The olinguito is a new, teddy bear-like carnivorous mammal species discovered in South America that had been misclassified for decades.