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With diagnosis, hepatitis C becoming treatable disease for many.

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

The Internet can be both a positive and negative influence on teens and young adults at risk for self-harm or suicide, a new review suggests.

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...

Water-Fueled Welder SafeFlame Researchers from ITM Power, a UK-based clean energy company, say their new blowtorch prototype produces fire using only water as fuel. The electrolyser system turns hydrogen and oxygen gases...

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...

Air pollution in northern China recently reached astonishing lows, with visibility of about 30 feet. The clouds of smoke and smog have been tracked from above by NASA's Aqua satellite.

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'...

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     

A 9,000-year-old painting of an exploding volcano, the oldest ever found, can now be linked to real-life eruption in Turkey.

Kepler-78b is hellishly hot but has the same size, mass and composition as Earth, raising the probability that a true Earth twin is out there     

There are no sardines off Vancouver Island this year. Is it a blip, or another major fishery about to collapse?     

Five children with a genetic disease that wipes out their immune system have successfully been treated with gene therapy     

Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a mental disorder characterized by recurrent and persistent thoughts (obsessions) and ritualistic behaviors (compulsions) that interfere with a person's daily life and relationsh...

COSMOLOGY and particle physics--or at least, the popular versions of them--tend to the grandiose. The Higgs boson, recently discovered at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory, is not just any old particle. To the d...

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