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A team of researchers led by scientists from the San Diego State University discovered a previously unknown but surprisingly common virus living in the human gut, the BBC reported Saturday.

Nigerian officials have put all airports, seaports and land borders on "red alert," after a Liberian man died of Ebola in the capital city of Lagos. The outbreak that's killed more than 660 people and infected more than ...

Dexterous, sensitive and precise, it's the ultimate hands-free device - no wonder the tongue is at the heart of a new generation of computer controls (full text available to subscribers)

3D videos of starlings show that cues to turn flow through the flock like ripples on a pond, rather than spreading evenly like a diffusing gas

Researchers who examined statistics on heterosexual marriages in the United States from 1950 to 2009 found that women who are more educated than their husbands are no longer at increased risk of divorce.

Almost one-third of American children and teenagers are either obese or overweight, but a new study carried out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, found 30 percent of them -- about 9.1 millio...

When AIDS first emerged in the early 1980s, HIV infection was a death sentence. But a global effort has ensured this is no longer the case for a growing number of people.

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first successful ascent of K2, the second tallest mountain in the world, located in Pakistan, a team of Pakistani climbers and three Italians, reached the summit at 22:30 GMT on F...

Ever looked at the ingredients on a bottle of water? Why would you when it's just hydrogen and oxygen, right? Wrong. A large number of bottled-water companies that market their products as "purified" and "natural" are ac...