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(Rutgers University) A new way to attack flu viruses is taking shape in laboratories at Rutgers University, where scientists have identified chemical agents that block the virus's ability to replicate itself in cell cult...

Large chunks of the National Weather Service--the group of scientists partially responsible for predicting extreme weather events, among many other important weather-related duties--are still working despite the governme...

A new method developed by researchers called "in silico nano-dissection" uses computers rather than scalpels to separate and identify genes from specific cell types, enabling the systematic study of genes involved in dis...

A rhinoceros in Kruger Park, South Africa Harvey Barrison, via Wikimedia Commons Poachers tend to operate in places that are difficult to reach and far from law enforcement. For countries that want to protect their indig...

An cancer researcher and his colleagues have discovered new therapeutic targets and drugs for certain types of leukemia or blood cancer.

A new article outlines the results of a project investigating how directed programing affects behavior. This study is the first to evaluate impact of tailored information on a group at high risk for melanoma.

Last month, I was walking from the grocery store when it began to pour sideways. I was smart and had brought my rain jacket, so I reached down to zip it up. That’s when I noticed the plastic zipper bottom on my three-y...

Reprinted from Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life among the Stars, by Lee Billings. With permission of Current, a member of Penguin Group (USA), LLC, A Penguin Random House... --

On October 7, the 2013 Nobel laureates will be announced. The selection process is highly secretive, and there’s plenty of speculation that surrounds them, much of it good natured but not very... --

    

Viruses imported from abroad or that mutate unexpectedly, including flu and MERS, could go undetected because of diminished federal disease monitoring     

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An investigational vaccine appears generally well tolerated and effective against the most common strain of norovirus, reducing the main symptoms of the gastrointestinal infection, vomiting and/or diarrhea, by 52 percent...

Doctors who abuse prescription drugs often do so for "self-medication" -- whether for physical or emotional pain or stress relief, reports a new study.

A new study shows for the first time that low quality commercial lab kits may be one factor hampering the progress of cancer diagnostics.

Simulated Higgs signature in the LHC's CMS detector. Rights The Higgs Boson is the most talked about possibility for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. We'll know for sure on Tuesday by about 5:45 AM EST. But the Nobel Com...

The world's biggest online drug marketplace has been taken down in a swoop that indicates the FBI's growing ability to probe the darker reaches of the net     

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Virgin Galactic has announced a Survivor-like series that will send the winner to space. It joins a growing list of space-based reality TV show coming to a box near you     

Microwave Universe Jonathan Feldschuh, 2013 The European Space Agency calls the Planck satellite its "time machine." Launched in 2009, Planck spends its days collecting data on Cosmic Microwave Background, the faint radi...

Microwave Universe Jonathan Feldschuh, 2013 The European Space Agency calls the Planck satellite its "time machine." Launched in 2009, Planck spends its days collecting data on Cosmic Microwave Background, the faint radi...

In 1979, we thought we knew that the solar system beyond Earth was a cold, dead place. Then Voyager I found Io seething in the blackness