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Miniature robots could be good spies, but researchers now are experimenting with insect cyborgs or "cybugs" that could work even better.

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea will this month launch a satellite using its own rocket as part of a drive to join Asia's space race, officials said Tuesday.

Couples who shack up before tying the knot are more likely to get divorced than their counterparts who don't move in together until marriage, a new study suggests.

The most complete skeleton of a type of pot-bellied dinosaur, a therizinosaur, has been discovered in southern Utah.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After a string of vexing delays, NASA is once more preparing the space shuttle Endeavour for what will be its sixth launch attempt late Wednesday.

NEW YORK - A cat's purr normally says, "I'm happy." But a new study suggests some purrs send cat owners a much different message: "Feed me!"

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) - The weather has been anything but cooperative for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, but NASA has promised a sixth attempt late Wednesday for the International Space Station mission.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - New tests assessing brain changes and body chemistry are showing promise at diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in its earliest stages, aiding the search for new drugs, researchers said on Tuesday.

Venus may once have been more Earth-like, with volcanic activity and an ocean of water, a new map of the toasty planet's southern hemisphere suggests.

FRANKFURT (AFP) - Far-sighted plans to energise Europe by tapping solar power from the sweltering Sahara desert offer bright prospects but must not overshadow renewable sources closer to home, experts say.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Oil giant ExxonMobil announced an alliance Tuesday with biotech firm Synthetic Genomics to make a new biofuel from photosynthetic algae.

CAPE CANAVERAL., Florida (Reuters) - A pioneering rocket company that wants to take over the job of sending U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station launched an imaging satellite into orbit late on Monday for a Malaysian firm, its first paying customer.

A private spaceflight company launched a Malaysian satellite into orbit using a rocket of its own design late Monday, marking the firm's first successful commercial space shot.

Forty years after the first moon landing on July 20, 1969, SPACE.com asked Apollo astronauts and leaders of the space community to ponder the past, present and future. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of PBS's television series NOVA scienceNOW and the new StarTalk radio show, worries that Americans view spaceflight as a luxury rather than a fundamental science driver:

HOUSTON - Exxon Mobil Corp. said Tuesday it will make its first major investment in greenhouse-gas reducing biofuels in a $600 million partnership with biotech company Synthetic Genomics Inc. to develop transportation fuels from algae.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts have a reputation for their super-human commitment to a mission, but even spaceflyers like the shuttle Endeavor's crew need a break once in a while - especially after the  trying ordeal of five launch scrubs.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Stormy weather again foiled NASA's plans to launch the space shuttle Endeavour late Monday, the fifth setback for the delay-plagued mission.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's latest launch delay for the space shuttle Endeavour on Monday marked the fifth failed attempt to get the beleaguered mission off the ground. The tally may seem high, but it is not the record for the most vexed shuttle flight.

A newly discovered repulsive aspect to light could one day control telecommunications devices with greater speed and less power, researchers said today.