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The oldest known human hair belonged to a 9,000-year-old mummy disinterred from an ancient Chilean cemetery.

When Connie Culp heard a little kid call her a monster because of the shotgun blast that left her face horribly disfigured, she pulled out her driver's license to show the child what she used to look like. Years later, as the nation's first face transplant recipient, she's stepped forward to show the rest of the world what she...

Robotic submarine undergoes the final preparations before its dive to the deepest-known part of the oceans.

While investigators trudge through pig farms and remote villages in Mexico, searching for clues about the new swine flu, answers about the virus' origin may finally appear on a computer, based on genetic codes.

Dare to fall into a black hole and you would get vaporized in what is probably the most violent place in the universe. But the journey would yield some amazing sights, though you might need three eyes for the best view of what's going on, new research suggests.

The gene is called CDH 10. Suzanne Rico reports.

An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said Tuesday.

South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases.

As part of the Google Lunar X Prize, Paragon Space Development Corp. has recently teamed with Odyssey Moon to develop a pressurized mini greenhouse to deploy on the surface of the moon, grow a plant from seed, and hopefully see it flower and seed itself. It marks a critical stage of development for extending life beyond the confines of our planet.

President Barack Obama has set a goal of devoting 3% of gross domestic product to US science research.