A 25-year-old man horrifically injured by an accident involving an electric power line has received a full face transplant in…
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Type With Your Mind
For people with spinal injuries or other conditions that impair use of the arms or vocal cords -- or for…
How Broccoli Fights Cancer
When your mom told you to eat your broccoli, she may have been giving you good advice on how to…
Earth-Size "Lone Wolf" Planets May Host Life
Across the galaxy, countless "rogue" Earths may have been ejected from their planetary neighborhoods and are now zipping alone through…
Ferrari Developing Mind-Reading Car?
Stepping into a Ferrari's sleek cockpit is enough to set anyone's pulse racing. But what if that was a bad…
Two planets found sharing one orbit
Buried in the flood of data from the Kepler telescope is a planetary system unlike any seen before. Two of…
Here Comes the [Entire] Sun
NASA released the first global view of our sun, courtesy of a pair of space probes collectively called Solar TErrestrial…
Asteroid makes sharpest turn yet seen in solar system
A metre-sized asteroid called 2011 CQ1 was spotted zipping only 5480 kilometres above the Earth's surface. That is the closest…
Jupiter's Moon Europa Helps Solve Stripey Mystery
Last year, something strange happened to Jupiter.Not only was the gas giant recovering from an asteroid smash, it also underwent…
Mini-Neptunes Found Around Sunlike Star
NASA's Kepler space telescope has uncovered six new planets huddled around a sunlike star—odd worlds that astronomers have dubbed mini-Neptunes,…