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It may look like fresh blood and flow like fresh blood, but the longer blood is stored, the less it can carry oxygen into the tiny microcapillaries of the body, says a new study from University of Illinois researchers.

Asteroid 2014 RC, which was discovered on Aug. 31, will make its closest approach to Earth on Sunday, though it poses no threat. The asteroid was first observed by the Catalina Sky Survey. Measuring about 60 feet in leng...

Dozens of public-sector agencies and private-sector companies are fast-tracking treatments and vaccines into human trials in response to Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, but one leading researcher contended t...

Bacteria aren't just tenants inside Sweden's Tjuv-Ante's Cave. The microbes are building calcite dripstones on the ceiling.

In Sweden's Tjuv-Antes cave, bacteria help build fanciful rock formations called dripstones.

Two new lava-spouting fissures opened overnight in Iceland, and NASA's Terra satellite spied the hotspots from space.

Dinosaur giants and sitters, mushroom-growing diapers and a "normal" family are just the tip of the iceberg for this week's cool science articles.