Image: Space station computer
NASA
stuxnet

No, Stuxnet did not infect the International Space Station

Image: Panthera blytheae
Mauricio Anton
Cats

World's oldest 'big cat' fossils unearthed in Tibet

Rover
NASA / JPL / MSSS / Marco Di Lorenzo / Ken Kremer
Curiosity

Mars Curiosity rover bounces back from software glitch

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Lights
Chad Blakley (lightsoverlapland.com)
Northern lights

Stunning dance of northern lights over Sweden captured

Image: Chris Hadfield
Sergei Remezov / EPA
Cosmic Log

Astronaut Chris Hadfield airs his dirty laundry on late-night TV

Encke
NASA
Comet Encke

'Old Faithful' Comet Encke coming back again this month

Image: Cassini view of Saturn
NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI
Cosmic Log

Planets galore! Cassini probe's big picture shows Saturn and more

Earth
NASA / JPL-Caltech
Earth formation

A cataclysmic impact -- then Earth was a lifeless magma ocean

Hominids
Andrew Howley / National Geographic
Archaelogy

Dig for hominid bones begins deep in Cradle of Humankind

Scorpion
Ersen Yagmur
Scorpion

New scorpion species discovered in Turkey -- but not to worry

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Health

Avoiding pee splash-back is in the aim, distance, scientist says

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Pixar

Pixar president offers up 'Monster' secrets of creativity to neuroscientists

Couple
TODAY
Cosmic Log

What are you doing for 11/12/13?

Image: Martian iguana
NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS
Cosmic Log

Feast your eyes on a fake Martian iguana — and a brand-new panorama

Survivors stay in their damaged house after Super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city, central Philippines.
Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
Typhoon Haiyan

Surviving typhoons will require smarter building — and a cultural shift

Sun
NASA
Sun's magnetic field

It's almost time for the sun's magnetic field to do a flip

Image: TRMM imagery of typhoon
Hal Pierce / SSAI / NASA
Cosmic Log

Typhoon Haiyan pushed the limit, but bigger storms are coming

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ISON
NASA / MSFC / Aaron Kingery
Comet ISON

Got a good pair of binoculars? Incoming Comet ISON's visible now

Ivory
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Ivory

US to destroy 6-ton stockpile of illegal ivory this week

Artifacts
ICE
Chinese artifacts

Chinese artifact smuggling case leads to criminal charges

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Bahar Gholipour for Space.com
Chris Hadfield

Astronaut Chris Hadfield shares life lessons learned in space

Lice
CDC
Lice

Bloodsucking lice reveal clues to human evolution

Snake
Kevin van Doorn
Science

Snakes have poor eyesight, but can boost their vision if threatened

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Mars
University of Washington, MSNW
Mars

To Mars and back quickly: Improved propulsion technology in works

Image: GOCE
ESA / AOES Medialab
Cosmic Log

GOCE satellite falls to its fiery doom in South Atlantic Ocean, experts say

greenhouse-gas

U.N. climate panel corrects carbon numbers in influential report

WARSAW, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The United Nation's panel of climate experts revised estimates of historical greenhouse gas emissions, made...

Image: Yurchikhin and torch
Shamil Zhumatov / EPA
iss

Space station trio brings Olympic torch back down to Earth

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Space

Cosmonauts take Sochi Olympic torch on spacewalk

Image: Clive D.L. Wynne
PetSafe
Cosmic Log

Were first dogs our best friends, or mutant vermin? The tale wags on

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Image: Bransons
NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Cosmic Log

First family of space: Richard Branson and kids will blaze new trail

Olympics
NASA TV via AP
International Space Station

Let the Games begin! Space station astronauts run own Olympic torch relay

Venus
Victor Rogus
Venus

Bright planet Venus, like the moon, is just going through a phase

Image of beetle-killed trees
Jen Chase / Colorado State Forest Service vi
energy

Beetle juice? Trees killed by bugs eyed as biofuel for cars

Indian
AFP / Getty Images file
Genetics

Indians and Europeans share 'light-skin' genetic coding

Wild bottlenose dolphins play off the bow of a sportfishing boat Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, off the Florida Keys near Islamorada, Fla. (AP Photo/Florida Ke...
Michael Newman / Florida Keys News Bureau via AP
Dolphins

Dolphin-killing virus reaches Florida, and is infecting whales, too

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Shark
Save Our Seas Foundation / Peter Verhoog
Sharks

New hammerhead shark species found off South Carolina

GOCE
ESA / AOES Medialab
GOCE satellite

Scientists expect GOCE satellite to crash to Earth in just days

Comet
Bruce Gary
Comet ISON

Things are looking up for Comet ISON: It's brightening at last

Warming
Simon Swordy / University of Chicago, NASA
Global warming

Cosmic rays again ruled out as cause of global warming

Elk
Bureau of Land Management Colorado
Elk

Culprit in mysterious elk deaths found: It's pond scum

Caves
Alexine Keuroghlian / WCS
Archaelogy

Piglike beasts lead the way to ancient cave drawings in Brazil