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Every year, Science and the National Science Foundation team up to award prizes to visual works "that engage viewers by conveying the complex substance of science through art." PM talked to some of the artists and scientists that designed our fav

The X Prize Foundation has announced its next multimillion-dollar contest. The X Prize is asking scientists to envision and build the equivalent of Star Trek's medical tricorder, a device that can remotely diagnose any malady in patients.

The oil companies that run the Trans-Alaska Pipeline suggest that if oil flows drop too low, the line could be compromised.

At the Mojave Air and Space Port out in California, spacecraft builders like Scaled Composites, XCOR, and Masten Space Systems are hard at work testing the next-generation private vehicles. PM paid a visit to this hub of the private space industry.

The Obama administration’s next move in boosting energy techonlogy will be nearly $500 million in support of small modular reactors.

Scientists have found a new way to rev the body's metabolism: Activate its fat cells. Here's the science behind what may be the weight-loss breakthrough of the next decade.

It's confirmed: alien "Tatooine" planets orbiting double suns exist. But they might not be the strangest things in space. Here are five extraordinary planetary systems that could be out there.

By taking strides toward understanding how the brain processing images, researchers are figuring out how to project a person's neural activity onto a TV screen.

A radiation storm is pummeling the Earth, and experts warn this isn't the first warning shot sent by the Sun. the next one could immobilize modern technology, and civilization, altogether.

A blast of charged particles from the sun is quickly approaching our planet, and the brunt will arrive on Tuesday morning. Here's what to know about these cosmic events.

Burt Rutan is best known as the designer of the first privately built craft to send people into space, is now one of the driving forces behind an attempt to build the world's largest aircraft for Stratolaunch.

This year, SpaceX hopes to become the first company to send a privately built and owned spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station. And CEO Elon Musk is already thinking far beyond that. Recently, we paid a visit to his company's home base.

This week scientists announced that they’d been able to see through the light to catch the final moments of a comet as it approached the sun, vaporized, and finally disintegrated.

For a decade and a half, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have been joined at the hip through United Space Alliance, the partnership that was responsible for launching the space shuttle.

The people of Nome, Alaska, know well what it takes to survive the long, cold winter. But a confluence of bad weather and other circumstances has left them lacking the fuel needed to heat homes and power vehicles.

For years, scientists have been trying to tap into the power of spider silk, one of nature’s most amazing materials. Now, a research team may have invented a way to produce the stuff in large amounts.