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British-born economist Angus Deaton won the 2015 economics Nobel Prize for "his analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare", the Royal…

For economists, who often disagree with one another and get their forecasts wrong, the idea of a Nobel Prize for…

NASA on Thursday outlined the many challenges that remain before humans can set foot on Mars, calling the problems "solvable"…

The 2015 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been jointly awarded to three scientists for their "mechanistic studies of DNA repair,"…

Bones from the feet and hands of an extinct species of early man reveal a versatile ancestor who climbed trees,…

Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases…

Scientists have found the first evidence that briny water may flow on the surface of Mars during the planet's summer…

Skygazers have been treated to a rare astronomical event when a swollen "supermoon" and lunar eclipse combined for the first…

Two-million-year-old fossils including the three tiny bones of the middle ear are helping scientists figure out the auditory abilities of…

The last stage of a total lunar eclipse will be seen from Egypt on September 28, Ashraf Latif Tadros of…