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If the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is not stopped now, hundreds of thousands of people in the region could be infected with the deadly virus, President Obama said today.

Scientists have used data provided by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find a planet that causes the star it orbits to act much older than it actually is, according to a new study. The discovery is expected to help as...

Sharks might not be able to adapt to acidified ocean water if climate change continues as-is, new research suggests. Exposure to ocean acidification changed sharks' nighttime swimming behavior.

CERN set to look beyond God Particle as LHC reopens (video) -- Ambulance-chasing Large Hadron Collider collisions -- New analysis rescues quantum wave-particle duality -- A discoverer as elusive as his particle -- Proton...

Three of the last eight months this year were the hottest on record, according to the latest federal climate data, which found that last month was the warmest August worldwide. Average temperatures in May and June were s...

The number of people displaced by natural disasters around the world has doubled since the 1970s, a startling trend that scientists say will only get worse as Earth's population continues to balloon. In 2013, some 22 mil...

A massive fireball illuminated the sky over parts of the U.S. East Coast and Midwest over the weekend, according to hundreds of eyewitness reports to the American Meteor Society. Residents in a dozen states spotted the f...

The American commitment to fighting Ebola matters -- it's more than a shot in the arm.

One U.S. government agency is taking the drone craze to a whole new level. NOAA just launched a drone directly into a hurricane.

Our capacity to create imaginary worlds could be key to our health as well as the power behind the rise of human civilisation (full text available to subscribers)

The quest for the ultimate memory device for computing may have just taken an encouraging step forward. Researchers at The City College of New York led by chemist Stephen O'Brien have discovered new complex oxides that e...

Solutions required for progress on the frontiers of photonics technology are close at hand: in nature, when viewed through the perspective of engineer, says Montana State University optics researcher Joseph Shaw. Along w...

Psychedelic pictures of 30 galactic collisions show for the first time that merging galaxies often spawn disc-shaped offspring like our Milky Way

Artificial sweeteners that many believe may curb real sugar consumption and weight gain, may actually have an opposite effect and increase blood sugar levels, a new study says.

For an unprecedented third year in a row, Antarctica's sea ice is poised to smash a new winter record, but Arctic summer sea ice hit its sixth lowest minimum.

If the recent discovery of gravitational waves emanating from the early universe holds up under scrutiny, it will illuminate a connection between gravity and quantum mechanics and perhaps, in the... --

Clownfish travel hundreds of kilometres, but it is the larvae rather than the adults that migrate

Chimpanzees may attack each other in coordinated assaults, but not because of human pressures on their habitat, a new study finds. Instead other factors, such as having many males in a highly populated ape community, hei...

The largest consumer of coal in the world has announced radical restrictions on coal imports and its domestic transport and use

Continents move, but what got them going? A new computer model shows it was gravity. Whole continents flattened out under their own weight.

Randall Munroe, author of the webcomic xkcd, has found another outlet for his inquisitive nature. Relentless curiosity is the driving force behind Internet phenomenon Randall Munroe’s new book, What If? Serious Scienti...

Aspartame, saccharin and sucralose made mice glucose intolerant - a risk for diabetes - probably by altering their gut flora. Is it happening in humans too?