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NASA hails spending boost under Obama budget proposal NASA hailed a proposal by President Barack Obama to boost spending for the US space agency and announced plans for a mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa.

03 February 2015

Snakes 70 million years older than thought: study A new look at four fossils has revealed that snakes' earliest known ancestor lived as many as 70 million years earlier than thought.

28 January 2015

SpaceX chief Elon Musk eyes Internet satellites: report High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has reportedly added global Internet access from satellites to his vision of a future alongside sporty electric cars.

26 January 2015

Google aboard as Musk's SpaceX gets $1 bn in funding The private space exploration firm SpaceX said it had secured a $1 billion investment that could help founder Elon Musk's plan to build a satellite Internet network.

21 January 2015

SpaceX poised for cargo, rocket-recycle launch SpaceX will try again to launch a load of cargo to the International Space Station and recycle its Falcon 9 rocket by landing a key part on an ocean platform.

10 January 2015

Birth control shot may boost HIV risk: study Women who use a specific type of injectable birth control have a slightly higher risk of HIV infection than those who take the pill.

09 January 2015

SpaceX to try ocean platform landing of Falcon rocket SpaceX aims to propel modern rocket science into a brave new era by landing a key part of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.

06 January 2015

Kazakh chemist named best CIS scientist A chemist from Kazakhstan has been named the best across the CIS countries.

03 January 2015

Not all obese people prone to poor health: study US scientists encouraged 20 obese people to eat extra fast food for several months, and found that about a quarter stayed in good health.

03 January 2015

Dutch scientists use smell to recreate JFK, Diana and other famous deaths Dutch scientists are recreating the deaths of some of the world's most famous personalities by reconstructing their last moments using scents and sounds.

26 December 2014

Genes linked to developmental disorders British scientists said they had discovered 12 genes linked to developmental disorders in children that can cause heart defects, seizures and intellectual disability.

25 December 2014

Birds can sense a coming storm and flee: study Birds appear to be able to sense a coming storm and fly away before it hits, according to research out on golden-winged warblers in the United States.

19 December 2014

India launches biggest ever rocket into space India successfully launched its biggest ever rocket, including an unmanned capsule which could one day send astronauts into space.

18 December 2014

Kazakh scientists transplant cow skin on human Kazakh scientists have demonstrated their new method of healing wounds, burns and other skin defects using cow skin transplants.

12 December 2014

Orion launch is trial by fire for Apollo-era heat shield NASA's Orion vehicle aims to carry humans farther into space than ever before, but its protective heat shield is basically the same as that used for the Apollo Moon missions.

06 December 2014

NASA counts down to Orion's first step to Mars The Orion spacecraft, designed to carry humans farther in deep space than ever before, is poised to blast off in what NASA hailed as a first step in mankind's journey to Mars.

04 December 2014

Japan launches rocket carrying asteroid probe Japan launched a rocket carrying a space probe destined for a distant asteroid, just weeks after a European spacecraft's historic landing on a comet.

03 December 2014

E-cigarettes have 10 times carcinogens: Japan researchers E-cigarettes contain up to 10 times the amount of cancer-causing agents as regular tobacco, Japanese scientists said.

27 November 2014

DNA may survive trip to suborbital space and back DNA molecules attached to the outside of a rocket may be able survive a trip to suborbital space and back into the Earth's atmosphere at extremely high temperatures.

27 November 2014

Overweight linked to 500,000 cancer cases per year Overweight and obesity is now causing nearly half a million new cancer cases in adults every year, roughly 3.6 percent of the world's total.

26 November 2014

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