Trevor Stokes

The unexpected diet of the ground beetle larvae includes frogs several times larger than the meager youngsters. The beetle larvae stick to frogs and suck the life right out of them.

A team of French and Japanese researchers identified the lock and key mechanism that allows the fruit's active ingredient, miraculin, to latch onto sweet taste buds and convince the brain that vinegar tastes like apple cider.

NASA officials and research teams spent the past few weeks playing a guessing game on where and when debris from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite will land. The latest estimates Friday morning delayed the satellite's time of re-entry and increased the possibility that Carter may encounter debris. On Thursday, NASA officials said that there was no chance that the debris would land in North America.

A defunct satellite originally meant to analyze the Earth’s ozone layer is expected to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere and crash land Friday, according to reports from NASA released Thursday.

Since the launch of Planet Hunters in December, 40,000 web surfers have helped in the search for new planets by crunching data collected by NASA.

A gene scientists say delivers the fountain of youth may just a bucket of water, according to research published today.