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“The Perseids build up to their peak slowly, so if that night is cloudy, try any early morning” through Friday, Deane Morrison advised in a Minnesota Starwatch report for August from the University of Minnesota.

RS EVA-41 will be the only Russian spacewalk of 2015 – set to begin shortly after 10 a.m. Eastern on Monday. Padalka and Kornienko will install these devices which will facilitate the movement of fellow astronauts on spacewalks in the future. Both will wear Russian Orlan...

Wilmoth, the director of the United Nations (UN) Population Division, told a session focused on demographic forecasting at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM 2015) in Seattle, that the population could surge to 9.7 billion by 2050 before topping out at between 9.5 and 13.3...

A motorcyclist was hospitalized, and traffic brought to a crawl Monday morning after a crash on the Sunol Grade, the California Highway Patrol said. (The children on the bus are part of the Giborim group, she said.). The camp remained open Monday afternoon. Traffic was backed up...

Lead author of the study and a biologist at the Exeter University inside Devon, United Kingdom, Thomas Richards said that frogs are already facing extinction all over the globe. The team of scientists measured the seriousness of the disease in only three continents, but...

“We acquired some of these things, reverse engineered them, and along the way found that they had a whole bunch of security deficiencies,” says Stefan Savage, the University of California at San Diego computer security professor who led the project, Wired reports....

The annual August meteor shower is one of the most prolific natural light shows of the year with up to 100 shooting stars streaking across the sky per hour at its peak.

NASA says it launched the Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket at 6:04 a.m. Wednesday from the Wallops Island Flight Facility.

Drivers are also being warned about the risk of “dangerous” flash flooding, with a month’s worth of rainfall expected in just two days.

“To this point, no one had considered that a frog could be venomous, specifically able to transmit toxin into another animal with a spine or something of that nature”, Brodie said. Well, one day while gathering specimens in the field, that all changed for Brodie and...

Pichai quickly began to receive more responsibility, however, taking on involvement with various Google search products including Firefox, Google Toolbar, Desktop Search, Gadgets, and Google Gears and Gadgets.

Researchers have found a newly identified parasitic disease in tadpoles – one that could threaten global frog populations. Richards says that infectious diseases are one of the main reasons why frogs have to suffer.

Astronauts Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, and Kimiya Yui all munched on red romaine lettuce this afternoon, except unlike your sad desk salad, this produce was grown on the worldwide Space Station.

In his post, Page explained that restructuring the company would provide better management scale by running unrelated projects independently.

Moreover, each division of Alphabet will have its own CEO and the holding company will be led by Larry Page, while Google, which will be the largest part of the new conglomerate, will be managed by its new executive Sundar Pichai. Alphabet will become a holding company –...