(CNN) For the first time, researchers have estimated what percentage of cancer mutations are due to environmental and lifestyle factors, hereditary factors and random chance.
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90638322 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket makes its first successful upright landing on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship on April 8. NASA via Getty Images.
Mars is a hostile place, and as the latest images beamed back from the surface show, the Curiosity Mars rover is really starting to suffer the effects of an extended stay there.
April the giraffe has kept millions of people waiting for weeks to watch her give birth on live cam. As people wait for the pregnant giraffe to go into labor, the zoo that houses April released an update Thursday night on its official Facebook page to …
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (center) poses with crewmates Shane Kimbrough of NASA (right) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency ahead of a Jan. 13, 2017 spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
The Falcon 9 first stage is securely docked at Port Canaveral. Scenes like this may become commonplace as SpaceX increases their flight cadence and returns the landed boosters to their facility at Port Canaveral.
sydney, March 24 (IANS) Environmental organisation Greenpeace on Friday released a video showing the “silent and high-speed destruction” of the Great Barrier Reef, caused by coral bleaching that has occurred for two years in a row.
The rusty patched bumblebee’s path to the endangered list was as up and down as the way it flies. After a years-long run-up to a determination early this year that it was eligible for the list, and a month-long delay for a newly required review by the …
A girl from the Iñupiat community stands on a ice floe on a shore of the Arctic Ocean in Barrow, Alaska in the United States. The anomalous melting of the Arctic ice is one of the many effects of global warming that has a serious impact on the life of …
Certain areas on Mars in the mid-latitudes contain gullies and flow features, which may provide evidence of ice on the planet, either in the past or currently.
Just this week, NASA announced that it had discovered one of the youngest, possibly the youngest major volcano on Mars to date. Arsia Mons – a gigantic, 110-kilometer-long (68-mile-long) caldera, which is also more than twice the height of Everest …
Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) was inspired by an origami design. This little robot could be used as a scout for larger rovers, going places that would be risky or hard to reach.
Indonesian maritime authorities have reached an agreement with insurers on the extent of the damage from the grounding of the Caledonian Sky, a British-owned vessel that struck bottom in Raja Ampat, a group of islands and coral reefs in West Papua.
The year has only just begun and yet people across the world are already gearing up for the biggest astronomical event to take place in North America in almost forty years.
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