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California residents in the Napa area got a rude awakening early this morning when an earthquake of roughly magnitude 6.0 shook the valley. --

Would you trust Wikipedia -- one of the most popular websites in the world -- any more (or even less) if you knew people were being paid to contribute content to the encyclopedia?

UPDATE 4:30 p.m. EDT: An RAF Northolt specially equipped C-17 aircraft ferried Britain's first confirmed Ebola sufferer from Sierra Leone to London Sunday, the BBC reported. A Health Department spokesman said the patient...

An antique copper awl, recently discovered in Israel, is claimed to be the oldest metal object ever found in the Middle East. The discovery suggests that ancient people in the region started using metals more than 6,000 ...

For people who’ve lost a limb, advances in materials and 3D printing have produced a slew of new prosthetics that deliver greater mobility, custom fitting, and sleek designs. Yet the ability to completely regrow a lost...

Researchers have demonstrated how an interplay between nutrition, metabolism and immunity is involved in the process of aging. It has been suspected for a long time that these are linked, and this paper provides a protot...

A process that uses genetically engineering yeast cells to replicate the entire opioid production process, eliminating the need to grow poppies, is close to conclusion, one researcher reports. Her ultimate goal is to pro...

Health care savings can greatly defray costs of carbon-reduction policies, experts report. But just how large are the health benefits of cleaner air in comparison to the costs of reducing carbon emissions? Researchers lo...

A novel molecular pathway that causes an aggressive form of medulloblastoma has been identified by researchers. Now scientists suggest repurposing an anti-depressant medication to target medulloblastoma to help combat on...

One fundamental question in biology is what constitutes the basic type of the animal body plan and how did all the more complex forms, including that of humans, evolve from it. At the simplest level, this body plan can b...

From cockroaches and bedbugs to fungi and microbes, your home is crawling with life. It has evolved with us for millennia, and now its fate is in our hands (full text available to subscribers)

A major earthquake has struck Northern California's Bay Area, injuring dozens and causing widespread damage and power outages.

Hundreds of methane gas plumes bubbling up from the seabed were spotted during an extensive seafloor survey along the U.S. Atlantic Coast.

A sensor implanted in their eye could let people with glaucoma monitor the condition using just a smartphone

From life under the ice to the weirdest worm ever, we searched out the coolest stories in Science this week.

The recent furore about the Facebook Messenger app has unearthed an interesting question: how far are we willing to allow our privacy to be pushed for our social connections?