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Update 8:12 p.m. EDT: U.S. health officials confirmed the country's second case of MERS Monday, and said the patient was in good condition in an Orlando, Florida, hospital, Reuters reported. The 44-year-old man is a heal...

An area of western Antarctica whose glaciers have been thawing for decades has passed the point of no return, scientists warned Monday. According to new research, these glaciers have been destabilized and are floating in...

Scientists from the University of Granada have successfully created magnetic bacteria that could be added to foodstuffs and could, after ingestion, help diagnose diseases of the digestive system like stomach cancer. Thes...

Mutations in two presenilin proteins associated with familial Alzheimer's disease disrupt the flow of calcium ions within neurons. Researchers have found that suppressing the hyperactivity of the calcium channels allevia...

Provision of a snack before mass treatment of schistosomiasis with praziquantel leads to increased uptake of treatment in school-aged children in Uganda, according to a new study. Scientists found that 93.9 percent of ch...

Stimulation of a certain population of neurons within the brain can alter the learning process, according to a team of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons. A new report describes for the first time that human learning can ...

In the centuries before World War I, wars were waged on land, or by navies on the high seas. But by the time "the war to end all wars" started in 1914, airplanes had captured the public's attention, and military leaders ...

MQ-9 Reaper drone comes into land at Kandahar Airbase in Helmand, Afghanistan Fg Off Owen Cheverton/Ministry of Defense, UK American military involvement in Afghanistan is winding down. The production run of the MQ-1 Pre...

Live Science explains the reality behind some common misconceptions about big changes in Antarctica.

Although it may not be herding cats exactly, all the NASA-supported Binary Colloidal Alloy Tests (BCAT) studies have ended on the International Space Station, and the experimental samples are being rounded up and returne...

How medicine, sports and society are trying to heal and protect the brains of millions amidst the growing awareness of the long-lasting effects of traumatic head injury --

(Phys.org) --A simple new technique to form interlocking beads of water in ambient conditions could prove valuable for applications in biological sensing, membrane research and harvesting water from fog.

Depression in one spouse can put a strain on a marriage. Often, it is a person's partner who first notices their depression, and encourages them to seek treatment. Here are some tips for spouses who are coping with depre...

Between 2006 and 2010, there was a nearly 30 percent increase in the rate of visits to an emergency department for traumatic brain injury, which may be attributable to a number of factors, including increased awareness a...

College football players with and without a history of concussions have less volume in the hippocampal region of the brain that relates to memory and emotion, according to a new study. Moreover, the number of years of pl...

An analysis of more than 120 studies that examined the effectiveness of medications to treat alcohol use disorders reports that acamprosate and oral naltrexone show the strongest evidence for decreasing alcohol consumpti...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced the second case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the United States. Here are answers to commonly asked questions about the condition.

Alzheimer's research has centered on trying to understand the protective or regenerative properties of brain cells as an avenue for treating the widespread disease. Now a researcher has discovered novel protein fragments...

30-day readmissions can be reduced by almost 20 percent when specific efforts are taken to prevent them, a review has found. Key among these are interventions to help patients deal with the work passed on to them at disc...

Web 2.0 was heralded as a revolutionary game-changer that would level playing fields, but it has simply ended up reinforcing elitism, argues Alice Marwick (full text available to subscribers)

The spring melt of Arctic sea ice is underway, but what summer's minimum will be is hard to predict.

A mummy previously suspected to be a fake, in fact contains the remains of a human fetus, CT scanning reveals.