What Are Superfoods?

Superfoods are foods thought to be good for one's health. The term has no set scientific meaning, however, and any list of superfoods is subjective.

US Could Grow Enough Algae to Make 1/12 Nation's Fuel

The Gulf Coast and Southeast are great for growing algae.

Algae Provide A Food Bank For Starving Coral

Cells form crystals to store nitrogen when life gets tough.

Glow-in-the-Dark Cockroach, Tiny Frog Among New Species

Arizona State University scientists have released the top 10 newly discovered species of 2012.

Is Brad Pitt's Face Blindness For Real?

Brad Pitt says he can't put a name with a face. Is 'face blindness' a real condition?

Facts About Molybdenum

Properties, sources and uses of the element molybdenum.

Exquisite Map of Cosmos Hints at Universe's Birth

The light left over from the Big Bang may help answer some of the thorniest cosmic conundrums.

Mom's Stress Before Conception Linked to Infant Mortality

Infants born to women who faced severe stress before they conceived were more likely to die during their first year of life, a new study finds.

Menopausal 'Foggy Brain' Confirmed in Tests

A new study confirms what many women say happens to their memory abilities during menopause.

Facts About Niobium

Properties, sources and uses of the element niobium, and facts about its unusual history.

Communications satellite launched into space

The Associated PressCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, w...

Mars hit by space rocks 200 times a year

By SPACE.com staffSmall space rocks are carving fresh craters into the Martian surface more often than previously thought, researchers say. A new study finds that there are more than 200 asteroid impacts on the Red Planet every year.These asteroids and comet fragments are usually no bigger than 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) across — about 10 times smaller than the meteor that exploded over Chely...

Stinky feet? Robotic pooch lets you know

'Facebook Phone' launch canceled in U.K. as Home gets facelift

Plans to launch the HTC First, aka the "Facebook phone," in the U.K. have been indefinitely delayed and pre-orders refunded, according Facebook and the carrier that was to carry the device exclusively. In the United States, after AT&T dropped the device's price, that seemed like confirmation that sales have been nowhere near what was hoped.The HTC First was announced in April; with bold colors...

'Remember Me' is a beat 'em up video game for the Facebook generation

Being perched on the precipice of a new console generation has made video game developers reflect about their own relationship with technology. Ubisoft's new open-world game "Watch_dogs" is at once exceedingly ambitious and cripplingly self-conscious, asking players to live in a world where the tech industry's wildest dreams about interconnected smart devices and augmented reality systems are as u...

Celestial show won’t be back until 2015

Cold-loving bacteria offer clues for life on Mars

A microbe discovered in the Canadian high Arctic thrives at the coldest temperature known for bacterial growth.Researchers found the newly discovered bacterium, Planococcus halocryophilus OR1, in permafrost — permanently frozen ground — on Ellesmere Island. The organism thrives at 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius), and holds clues to adaptations that might be necessary for life on Ma...

Big earthquakes create global-scale GPS errors

By Becky Oskin, LiveScienceThirteen years of supersized earthquakes, such as Friday's magnitude-8.3 in Russia, have contaminated GPS sites around the world, a new study finds.The Global Positioning System is a network of satellites and ground stations that provide location information anywhere on Earth. Except for spots in Australia, western Europe and the eastern tip of Canada, every GPS site...

How the smartphone killed the three-day weekend

Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer and all it evokes: vacations, slower workweeks, casual dress codes, getting the pool ready and pulling out the outdoor furniture.It would seem an ideal time to take a break, but our ability to unplug and relax is under assault. A three-day weekend? We can barely get through three waking hours without working, new research shows. The average smartp...

3-D printer going to space station in 2014

By Mike Wall, SPACE.comA 3-D printer is slated to arrive at the International Space Station next year, where it will crank out the first parts ever manufactured off planet Earth.The company Made in Space is partnering with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on the 3-D Printing in Zero G Experiment (or 3-D Print for short), which aims to jump-start an off-planet manufacturing capability that co...