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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.

The number of teens who abuse tobacco, alcohol, drugs and other substances hasn't changed much in the past couple of decades - but for those who are prone to addiction for one reason or another, the menu of substances to...

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...

A study of the Medieval king's skeleton reveals traumatic wounds he received at the time of death.

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...

A new commentary outlines what experts saw as merits of the originally bipartisan Sustainable Growth Rate Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014. The perennial trouble with how Medicare pays docto...

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...

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...

To diagnose painful kidney stones in hospital emergency rooms, CT scans are no better than less-often-used ultrasound exams, according to a clinical study conducted at 15 medical centers. "Ultrasound is the right place t...

Fats are often considered the enemy of good nutrition, but when included in a healthy diet they can boast several potential health benefits. Fatty acids and nutritional oils may benefit cognition, weight management, hear...

Scientists have devised a new antibiotic based on vancomycin that is powerfully effective against vancomycin-resistant strains of MRSA and other disease-causing bacteria. The new vancomycin analog appears to have not one...

A treatment regimen is safe and effective for restoring skin pigmentation in vitiligo patients, according to a study. "Our findings offer patients with vitiligo worldwide a renewed hope for a bright future in the treatme...

The most common type of hospital-associated infection may be preventable with a vaccine, new research in mice suggests. The experimental vaccine prevented urinary tract infections associated with catheters.

The discovery of a novel mechanism in the brain involved in the formation of memory and learning has been made by scientists. The discovery could have therapeutic ramifications for conditions including dementia, age-rela...

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.

Asian Americans have been shown to lower insulin resistance on a traditional diet, researchers report. One part of this puzzle may lie in the transition from traditional high-fiber, low-fat Asian diets to current western...

The award, which comes with a no-strings-attached $625,000 stipend paid out over five years, also went to black carbon and nano materials researchers --

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...