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Three African doctors infected with the Ebola virus have each received doses of the experimental drug ZMapp, which appears to have helped two American aid workers who were infected with the virus in late July. The doses ...

Halfway through August there has been a supermoon and the annual Perseid meteor shower and Monday sees another exciting astronomical event: Venus and Jupiter have been inching closer for the last few days and in the pre-...

It's a conspiracy theory that won't go away: that life exists on the Moon and government agencies are keeping the truth from coming out. The latest sighting by a keen UFO enthusiast claims a sighting of a dark shape on G...

People with one type of hair loss, called alopecia areata, could benefit from treatment with a drug called ruxolitinib, according to a new study. In early experiments, hair regrew in people with the condition.

The electronics we use for our computers only knows two different states: zero or one. Quantum systems on the other hand can be in different states at once, they can store a superposition of "zero" and "one". This phenom...

A group of genes whose expression was altered in people who died with Alzheimer's are found by two independent studies – they may play a role in the disease

Normally erosion takes thousands of years, but this river valley could vanish just 50 years after it formed

Buddha believed the way to end human suffering was the regular practice of meditation and introspection. But Buddha didn't have biotech. If our suffering stems from biological and genetic factors and a cocktail of bodily...

A physicist may have dreamed up a new way to clean up oil spills. David Biello reports. --

(GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre) A fast new mechanism drives the process of fluvial erosion.

(Vienna University of Technology) Two different quantum systems are being coupled at the Vienna University of Technology to create a powerful hybrid quantum system. Using a strong coupling effect, the coherence time coul...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Avastin for treating persistent, recurrent or late-stage cervical cancer. The drug interferes with blood vessels that fuel development of cancer cells.

If you still have nightmares about the Venus Fly Trap in "Little Shop of Horrors" saying, "Feed me, Seymour," you're not going to be happy about the findings by a Virginia Tech scientist. Jim Westwood, a professor of pla...