Elon Musk tweeted a picture over the weekend of SpaceX workers connecting landing gear to the Falcon 9 to be used in March to lift a Dragon supply craft into low-earth orbit, where it will dock with the space station.
The new finding further demonstrates the period of time when the earth was covered by a churning ocean of molten rock actually came a tad earlier in its geologic history than originally believed.
Research suggests a series of about 17 volcanic eruptions that started in 2000 spit out enough aerosols into the air to skew the anticipated acceleration of the earth's atmospheric warming.
The human and dog study subjects responded to stimuli quite similarly, while showing the greatest reactions when hearing sounds from individuals of their own species.
While the earth's atmosphere protects it from most meteoroids on a collision course with the Blue Planet, the moon doesn't have one, which means even small fragments can hit its surface and leave a crater.
Kreskin, who gained notoriety in the 1970s, was reportedly asked by the people at NJ.com to provide a Super Bowl prediction last Friday and then reveal it after the game.
The group discovered evidence that hits to the head led to alteration to the brain on a microscopic scale, and also concussion incidence was 3-5 times higher within the sport than previously reported.
Initially developed as an educational tool for children, the device created significant buzz at the San Diego Mini Maker's Faire and then drew added attention online and through social media.
Scientists with the United States Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center say the arms of infected starfish begin to twist and then crawl, pulling away from and eventually off of the bodies entirely.
The new research, reported in the journal Food Chemistry, examined several brands of beer with a so-called electronic tongue, or, an array of sensors. based on the human sense of taste.
The NIH has put out a call for research subjects who agree to have the H1N1 influenza virus injected into their noses, in order to track how the immune system responds to the different phases of the illness.
Calling the fine "significant," CalOSHA spokesman Peter Melton said there had been several complaints against Cybernet Entertainment's Kink.com and was prompted by a formal filing against Kink.com by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
Packaged in 12-ounce cans, the 12 Man Pale Ale was released to the public in December and, according to a report published by the Associated Press, has become a top seller throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Researchers at the University of London in the United Kingdom surveyed 18,000 residents of Finland and England and discovered three top ways people clear their systems of the often-distracting melodies.
The 8,530-foot-high volcano produced a series of huge blasts and eruptions, sending lava and pyroclastic flows nearly three miles away. Television reports showed villages, farms and trees across covered in thick gray ash.
A research team at the University of Pennsylvania reports a new method for converting adult cells into epithelial stem cells, which, when implanted into laboratory mice, regenerated the different human cell types.
The onset of the bacteria in the Golden State is similar to the one that, also last fall, struck eight at Princeton University in New Jersey --- where students lobbied for and won approval to use the Swiss-made vaccine.
The bee population has fallen prey to the parasitic Apocephalus borealis fly, which lays its eggs inside the bees, causing them to act erratically before dropping dead once the eggs hatch.
The team studied the effects of third-hand smoke on the organs of laboratory mice which lived six months in ventilated cages that weren't subjected to smoke directly, but contained materials exposed to second-hand smoke.
The data showed about 25 to 30 percent of the respondents had sex to get back at their partners or to rebound from the relationship within the first four weeks after their breakup.
Researchers explained the new type of phytosaur was named Machaeroprosopus lottorum, after the Lott family who owns the ranch where the remains of the prehistoric creature were uncovered.
After conducting a series of genetic surveys of aquatic life in the upper Columbia River basin and then confirming the data through morphological studies, researchers have announced a new species of freshwater sculpin.
As the giant planets migrated through the beginning solar system, they redirected objects located as close to the sun as Mercury, and as far away as Neptune, into the region where many of the asteroids are found today.
The butterflies have at times been seen covering upwards of 45 acres of forest in the Mexican state of Michoacan. However, last December, only 1.6 acres of the forest was occupied by the monarchs during the latest study.
The petition says NASA's lack of scientific integrity is evident in the agency's apparent lack of interest in a rock now visible in images of the Martian terrain --- but wasn't visible in earlier images of the same location.
