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Rom Houben was 20 when he was involved in a gruesome car crash following which he was presumed brain dead by doctors. Today he is 46 and has dealt with the misfortune of spending more than half his life in...

The existence of the so-called exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- was announced at the European Southern Observatory/Center for Astrophysics, University of Porto conference in Porto, Portugal, according to a statement issued by the observatory. The announcement was...

Dear friend, Please catch your heart in your hands. Now it is going to start again to understand the circumstances of the creation of the universe. The scientists of European Nuclear Research Organization (CERN) have repaired a Large Hadron Collider...

Intel's Pittsburgh Labs have announced they expect to have "Brain Implants" available by 2020... The devices would be used to control computers, tv's, cell phones, etc. which will allow people to say goodbye to keyboards, the mouse and other remote...

It is usual for fathers to pace up and down the corridors of the hospital while the mother is in labour – the father chews his fingernails as he waits anxiously to hear the good news. Not so astronauts. Randy...

A rare flotilla of icebergs is slowly drifting toward New Zealand from Antarctica. Shippers have been warned that more than 100 giant chunks of ice are in the area. Experts believe most of the icebergs will break up before they...

In 2012 the Mayan calendar ends, in what some say is their prediction of the end of the world. The big question is: what exactly does this mean? In other words, what did the Mayans really intend by ending their...

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider buried deep beneath the Swiss-French border made history Monday, smashing two proton beams traveling at near-light speed into each other. The LHC, also known as the big bang machine, is the largest machine on...

A Tanzanian snake so startled by a British researcher that it threw up its still-undigested dinner in fact horked up a previously unknown species of chameleon. Andrew Marshall tells the Guardian he was surveying monkeys in the Magombera forest when...

CAPE CANAVERAL — Atlantis astronauts have delivered more than 14 tons of spare parts and supplies to the International Space Station over the past week, but this shuttle mission may be best remembered for a 6-pound, 13-ounce bundle delivered back...