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A Minnesotan returning home from West Africa has tested positive for Lassa fever, health officials have confirmed.

An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 5.7 shook Greece today (April 4), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

A Beagle Puppy Looks like this pup won't need a drone to escape his predicament. Diablito63 via Wikimedia Commons Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news, designed to capture the military, commercial, non-profit, a...

A Norwegian skydiver claims he has proof that he almost collided with a meteorite. Video captured in 2012 of Anders Helstrup and several other members of Oslo Parachute Club was shared on YouTube on Thursday, showing wha...

The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif., runs a clinic that rescues sick, injured and orphaned seals, sea lions and other marine mammals.

As a seafloor volcano continues to erupt in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, a newborn island has swallowed its neighbor whole, images from space show.

A new hospital for sick or injured Hawaiian monk seals is nearing completion, and will open to its doors to seagoing patients this summer.

A medical device, once its job is done, could harmlessly melt away inside a person's body. Or, a military device could collect and send its data and then dissolve away, leaving no trace of an intelligence mission. Or, an...

All the latest on newscientist.com: lost human species, doctor woven into your clothes, Lake Superior on Saturnian moon, China's ancient coal use and more     

Twenty-seven percent of the Universe is made of invisible dark matter. But what is it? In this episode, we cover the top five candidates that may fit the bill. Host/writer: Sophie... --

Researchers create maps of beer preferences by geotagging tweets.

The World Health Organization estimates some 90% of the world's visually impaired folks live in the developing world. Most suffer from correctible but undiagnosed refractive errors like cataracts. Opthalmic equipment is ...

As the properties and applications of graphene continue to be explored in laboratories all over the world, a growing number of researchers are looking beyond the one-atom-thick layer of carbon for alternative materials t...

Gamma rays from the Milky Way's middle are increasingly likely to be signs of dark matter, and hints of the same signal from dwarf galaxies boost the case     

The doctor who discovered that a spinal implant meant for pain relief can also trigger orgasms says that we are unlikely to see an orgasmatron any time soon     

Cooling NASA-Russia ties is a familiar political game, but it may spark talk on reasserting US leadership in space, says security expert Joan Johnson-Freese     

XStat Photograph by Ralph Smith The pocket-sized XStat, a hemorrhage-stopping invention we wrote about in February, yesterday received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a first-of-its-kind medical dr...

It's not something in your eye. It's not smoke from a late-night barbecue. You're looking at a map of the most massive ancient galaxy cluster ever seen     

For a creature with no eyes, the Mexican blind cavefish is surprisingly nimble, thanks to a unique navigation system based on the ability to suck     

Yes, kids, Cap'n Crunch is looking at you. The mascots on boxes of cereal advertised to children tend to stare downward to catch the gaze of kids. Why? Eye contact helps increase feelings of trust in a brand, a new study...

A new atomic clock unveiled today (April 3) is three times more precise than the one previously used to keep official time in the United States, making it the most accurate timekeeper yet developed.

Members of the quantified self movement use technology to collect data about themselves, for self-insight and self-improvement. As tools to track our lives become more ubiquitous, experts say they could help the general ...