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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 11:37

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 16:31

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 14:14

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 14:14

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 13:06

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 14:02

Benefits of regular vitamin D tests remain unproven: study Experts said regular tests for vitamin D levels are not proven to be beneficial or harmful.

25 November 2014 15:17

Italy's first female astronaut heads to ISS in Russian craft A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Italy's first female astronaut safely blasted off Sunday to begin its journey to the International Space Station.

24 November 2014 11:45

Scientists study rare tapeworm living in man's brain Scientists in Britain removed and studied a rare tapeworm that lived in a man's brain for four years, researchers saidю

21 November 2014 14:27

Study finds HIV drugs could help stop vision loss Drugs used to treat the HIV virus and AIDS could be used to fight against vision loss, a US university study said.

21 November 2014 13:14

Dancing, talking robots show off at Madrid congress Hundreds of robotics experts and their whirring, flashing robot creations gathered in Madrid for a top world congress on humanoid technology.

20 November 2014 09:36

Tags on fish may act as 'dinner bell' for seals: study Sound-emitting tags fitted to fish to track their survival may, paradoxically, be alerting predator seals to their whereabouts.

19 November 2014 14:29

Small volcanoes could slow global warming: study Small volcanic eruptions could be slowing global warming by spewing sulfur aerosols that reach the upper atmosphere and reflect sunlight away from the Earth.

19 November 2014 11:30

Lost languages leave a mark on the brain Babies adopted across international borders may not remember the language they heard in their first days, but the words leave a lasting mark on their minds.

18 November 2014 12:45

Savvy media use turned comet mission into tale of space heroics Rosetta mission had become a tale of heroics in deep space, with the secrets of the Solar System at stake.

18 November 2014 10:52

Famous Kazakh astronaut comments on Rosetta mission Famous Kazakh cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev praises the Rosetta mission, which saw a space probe landing on the surface of a comet for the first time in human history.

17 November 2014 12:49

Obesity costs more than $8 bn in lost US productivity: study Obesity among workers in the United States is costing the nation $8.65 billion a year in lost productivity, according to a study released.

15 November 2014 12:56

Comet probe uploads last-minute data from 'alien world' Robot probe Philae uploaded a slew of data to Earth from a deep-space comet that it drilled into long after its onboard battery was feared to have died.

15 November 2014 11:54

Despite landing fumble, comet probe working well Europe's comet probe Philae was "working well" despite a rough-and-tumble touchdown that left it partly shadowed from battery-boosting sunlight.

14 November 2014 12:45

World's oldest people share no genetic secrets: study US scientists said they've found no genetic secrets shared between a group of 17 supercentenarians, or those who have lived beyond 110.

13 November 2014 11:10

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