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With diagnosis, hepatitis C becoming treatable disease for many.

Scientists say they've produced "the clearest evidence yet" the SARS virus originated in Chinese horseshoe bats and that direct bat-to-human transmission is "plausible." The 2002 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronav...

Shortages of drugs for lethal injection are forcing states to switch to new combinations of drugs, untested for how painlessly they kill     

One man's body odor was actually the result of a bacterial infection of his armpit hair, according to a new report of the case.

On Monday, Curiosity took some scouting photos of an outcrop called "Cooperstown" from about 262 feet (80 meters) away. Researchers plan to investigate Cooperstown soon, putting the rover's arm-mounted gear to use for th...

This Halloween, many of those dressed as witches will be carrying broomsticks. But few likely know the shadowy tale of how witches came to be associated with those familiar household objects.

Halloween is a traditionally scary time, and 10 years ago the sun joined the fray with one of the most powerful solar storms ever recorded. See the inside story of the Halloween solar storm of 2003 and watch a video of t...

The first United States national monument honoring the work of dogs in combat was dedicated this week at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Tex.

Barrier films, used in everything from food and drug packaging to consumer electronics and solar cells, help prevent your food from spoiling, help to preserve medication, and protect your electronics from damage due to e...

A new experiment buried deep underground has just proven itself to be the most sensitive dark-matter detector ever built.

The exoplanet Kepler-78b is just 20 percent wider and about 80 percent more massive than Earth, with a density nearly identical to that of Earth, two research teams report in separate papers published online today in the...

In the years leading up to implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the percentage of Californians who received their health insurance through public programs continued to rise, likely in direct response to the loss of...

Researchers have, for the first time, identified the enzymes that are detrimental to diabetic wound healing and those that are beneficial to repair the wound.

People living under repressive regimes will soon be able to access the web using the internet connection of friends in censorship-free countries     

Artist Hetain Patel's first car was a 1988 Ford Fiesta. Now, together with his father, he's souped up a different Fiesta into a Transformers-style robot sculpture. It does not move or fight villains, unfortunately. Here'...

Many of today's technologies, from hybrid car batteries to flat-screen televisions, rely on materials known as rare earth elements (REEs) that are in short supply, but scientists are reporting development of a new method...

As any amateur baker knows, proper mixing is crucial to a perfect pastry. Mix too little and ingredients will not be evenly distributed; beat instead of fold, and a soufflé will fall flat. Mixing strategies are even mor...

Where once there was one species of humpback dolphin roaming the Indian Ocean, now there are three     

Scientists have developed a new therapeutic approach for treatment of Type 2 diabetes. A novel single molecule hormone, which acts equally on the receptors of the insulin-stimulating hormones GLP-1 and GIP, was observed ...

HIV infection, not antiretroviral therapy (ART), is associated with risk for atherosclerosis in patients with no history of smoking, particularly those infected for eight years or more. While a growing body of literature...

Glioblastoma multiforme, the brain cancer that killed Sen. Edward Kennedy, is aggressive and incurable. Researchers can now demonstrate delivery of a drug that turns off a critical gene in this complex cancer, increasing...

Researchers have published results showing that a molecule combining the properties of two endocrine hormones is an effective treatment for adult-onset diabetes. The research included clinical trials with human subjects ...