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Saturn's largest moon Titan, dotted with hydrocarbon lakes and covered in a hazy atmosphere, comes to life in these stunning images captured by instruments aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Doctors Without Borders is warning the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has yet to be brought under control.

No need to upgrade: your phone needs only its microphone to pay for a taxi or join Lady Gaga's light show. But who else is whispering in its tiny ear? (full text available to subscribers)

Scientists find the first hint that Titan's methane and ethane lakes may be stirring in response to the summer warmth, similar to lakes on Earth.

For the first time, researchers at CERN have found evidence for the direct decay of the Higgs boson into fermions--another strong indication that the particle discovered in 2012 behaves in the way the standard model of p...

Frightful floods, freezes and heat waves favor certain parts of the Northern Hemisphere, thanks to strong atmospheric currents that repeatedly steer extreme weather to the same places, a new study finds.

Diabetes, despite affecting nearly 350 million people worldwide, is not really a controlled illness. Those who have the type 1 form of the illness, in which the pancreas fails to produce the insulin that processes glucos...

From ancient parasites and epidemics to affectionate dogs and spiders with personality, here are the coolest stories found from Science this week.

Suicides among mental health patients under home treatment are double the number of suicides in in-patient units, according to a new study published in The Lancet Psychiatry which looks at suicide rates in different ment...

(University of Zurich) For the first time, researchers at CERN have found evidence for the direct decay of the Higgs boson into fermions -- another strong indication that the particle discovered in 2012 behaves in the wa...

Chemist Stephanie L. Kowlek, who is credited with developing Kevlar, died this week at a hospice in Wilmington, Delaware, a friend told the Washington Post. She was 90. Rita Vasta, a former colleague at DuPont, declined ...