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SnOMG! Much of the eastern U.S. anticipating a cold, snowy weekend

The death rate among Americans who have lived to age 100 or older has decreased

The enormous herbivore is the newest permanent exhibit to join the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City

Widespread pertussis vaccine use at a Florida preschool failed to keep the disease away from about three dozen students, staff and family members

Phase V hydrogen, created by crushing Earth's lightest element with mind-boggling pressures, gives the physicists a glimpse of the inner atmosphere of a gas giant, where pressures reach millions of (Earth) atmospheres

Here are some of the things physicists are most excited for in the coming year

Intrepid swimmers prepare for a New Year's dip in the unseasonably warm Atlantic

It could be months before the gas leak that has forced thousands from their homes in southern California is stopped

Seismic equipment installed in Iraq to measure to detect and measure earthquakes could also help emergency responders following mortar attacks and car bombs

Tucked away in the basement of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, boxes held hundreds of glass plates imprinted with images of telescope observations, some of which are 120 years old

New method uses soft sheets made of silicone rubber that have many tiny droplets of liquid metal embedded inside them

Warmer sea-surface temperatures, El Niño drive likely drove serpent north

Predictions also suggest this flu season will be mild

The vaccine reduces the amount of the virus found in the camels infected with the disease

A Fermi Lab senior scientist runs through a real-life Jedi's (limited) options

The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE is a three-year global competition that challenges researchers to build better technologies for mapping Earth's seafloor

New fossil dates show beasts arose from their ancestors in half the time researchers previously thought

An early species of baleen whale relied on teeth rather than a filter for feeding

Researchers made the discovery after noticing dinosaur footprints along the Isle of Skye's rocky coast—an area that was a lagoon during the Jurassic

Feisty feeding behavior off the coast of Argentina includes pecking calves as they breach

Fluid dynamics sheds light the Tribrachidium's approach to mealtime 550 million years ago

The tissue engineering technique could someday help restore the voices of patients with otherwise untreatable vocal disorders, although more testing must be done

Teeth from these diminutive individuals suggest they belonged to a unique species rather than a modern human with a growth disorder, as previously suspected

New gene-editing technology that successfully reprogrammed cells to fight leukemia in a 14-weeks-old infant could be applied to other cancers