Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University created a robotic snake that can crawl, climb, swim and scale flights of stairs. These versatile robots, which are designed for reaching human inaccessible areas, could be valuable tools for disaster relief.

There is no accounting of a war that launched in late winter, continued through spring, reaches the 100-day mark on Friday and is likely to drag on for seasons to come. The conflict unleashed by Russian President Vladimir Putin defies statistics. It is a story best told in unsparing images of human ...

Neil Armstrong presents a Google moon video together with original footage taken from the Eagle module during his landing 20 July 1969. Captured from a webcast from the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Hearing on NASA Human Spaceflight 22 Sep 2011.
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Scott Kelly and his twin brother, Mark Kelly—also an astronaut—were the subjects of the study that sought to find out exactly what happens to the body after a year in space. Scott stayed on the International Space Station from March 2015 to March 2016, while Mark remained on Earth. This was the fina

After delays in the dedication ceremony of the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial dedication, due to an earthquake and Hurricane Irene, the monument will be dedicated on October 16,2011.
See a virtual tour of the magnificent monument to a great American who fought for Human Rights recognized worldwi...

In this video, FlackCheck.org reviews some of the false and misleading claims about climate change that we have written about for FactCheck.org’s SciCheck feature. The topics covered include: “global cooling,” glacier growth in Alaska, the impact of human activity on climate change, the connection b

Actress Julianna Margulies and her husband Keith Lieberthal support marriage equality. Do you?

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The Florida Reef Tract is the third largest coral reef in the world and a vastly important ecosystem for sustaining underwater life. Scientists are working to combat the crisis in the world’s coral reefs—that is, that human beings have lost 25 to 40 percent of the world’s corals in recent decades du

Jimmy Nelson has spent a lifetime documenting indigenous people all over the world - and now in a world in an identity crisis, his work is more relevant than ever. We humans have never been more disconnected from our roots and our own humanity before. Jimmy believes that indigenous people play a cru...

Official music video for “The Flower" off the forthcoming Stay Human Vol. II record, Michael Franti & Spearhead - Flower in the Gun. Artist: Michael Franti & Spearhead; Featuring artist: Victoria Canal; Flower in the Gun We could be the healin' When you're feeling all alone. We could be the reason.