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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare but fatal disease in humans. For the first time, the presence of infectivity in the blood of patients affected by sporadic and the new variant of CJD has been established by scie...

While it's difficult to fully disconnect from work as we head home for the day, a paper published today provides some insight into how our personal thinking styles and values can affect how we manage the stress of work.

The number of really big earthquakes in the 19th century is suspiciously lower than the number measured in the past century, raising the possibility that seismologists may be underestimating big earthquake risk based on ...

A new federal report suggests that grizzly bears around Yellowstone National Park are not threatened by the loss of a major food source, but outside scientists vociferously criticize the report's science.

Antarctica's crumbling Larsen B Ice Shelf is poised to finally finish its collapse.

An international team has identified a new disease related to NKH, a finding that resolves previously baffling cases, including the death of a Colorado girl.

A new type of transistor that could make possible fast and low-power computing devices for energy-constrained applications such as smart sensor networks, implantable medical electronics and ultra-mobile computing is feas...

Computer scientists have shown that an important class of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms could be implemented using chemical reactions. In the long term, they say, such theoretical developments could open the do...

Due to improved treatments and technologies, more children than ever are surviving cancer. Unfortunately, about 70 percent of these children experience late effects from their disease and treatment 30 years after their c...

An impenetrable fog rolled into London Wednesday morning (Dec. 10), which caused some travel woes, but also produced rare views of the city's skyline from above, with only the tallest buildings poking above the mist.

Dust Buster Brian Klutch The Problem Moon dust is dangerous. Each mote is like a tiny shard of glass--there's no wind or rain to soften the edges of lunar soil. During the Apollo missions, it jammed equipment and got stu...

A type of greenhouse gas that is thought to have a potent impact on global warming was detected in trace amounts in the atmosphere for the first time, according to a new study.

The governing council of the world's top particle physics lab has unanimously voted to accept Israel as a full member.

Smog in Beijing Berserkerus, via Wikimedia Commons Old supercomputers don't die, they just get practical day jobs. China's Tianhe-1A, the fastest supercomputer in the world in 2011, is now being put to use tracking the t...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have combined ultrafast time-resolved experimental measurements with theory to reveal how an explosive responds to a high-impact shock.

The Year In Science Jesse Lenz It was a great year in reading, but no one could've caught all of the amazing science and technology stories. So we've rounded up a few--from Popular Science, as well as plenty of other pla...

Computational work has led to a new mathematical theory for understanding the global spread of epidemics. The resulting insights could not only help identify an outbreak's origin but could also significantly improve the ...

Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. The second code contains information that changes how scientists read the instructions contained in DNA and interpret mutations to make sense of health and dise...

Peer solicitation - a child inviting another to play - can improve reciprocal social interaction among children with autism, according to a study.

Study compared emissions from electronic and conventional cigarettes, and found that secondhand exposure to nicotine from e-cigarettes is on average 10 times less than from tobacco smoke.

A web research tool is helping cancer researchers and physicians make sense out of genetic data from nearly 100,000 patients and more than 50,000 mice. The Gene Expression Barcode 3.0 is a vital resource in the new era o...

American alligators have been spotted using sticks to lure nesting egrets, the first documented example of a reptile using a tool