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Planetary scientist Candice Hansen-Koharcheck championed the importance of space imagery. Her legacy lives on in every pixel that comes back to Earth.

Nigerian virologist Margaret Oluwatoyin Japhet has designed a rapid test that could diagnose rotavirus at a child's bedside.

Finds at sites in Spain and France suggest that Neandertals used the teeth of ancient rhinos for heavy-duty fabrication.

A new study links the sun's 11-year cycle to accelerated orbital loss, with debris falling faster once sunspot numbers near their cycle peak.

To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac -- a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any other animal.

Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has been human-to-human spread.

Several studies have served up tantalizing hints about the drugs' potential cancer prevention benefits, but other results land all over the map.

A brief stellar eclipse suggests the tiny 2002 XV93 has a thin atmosphere -- a first for any solar system body farther from the sun than Pluto.

In mouse brains, star-shaped astrocytes form flexible networks that may offer another way for brain regions to communicate.