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As many as 500,000 people could be infected with Ebola virus disease by the end of January, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

A decoy protein has been designed by researcher to interrupt the signaling pathway that triggers the breakaway of cancerous cells; in other words the signal that initiates metastasis. Preliminary tests showed this strate...

Contrary to what was previously thought, newborn immune T cells may have the ability to trigger an inflammatory response to bacteria, according to a new study. Although their immune system works very differently to that ...

Biochemists have developed a program that predicts the placement of chemical marks that control the activity of genes based on sequences of DNA. By comparing sequences with and without epigenomic modification, they ident...

Cancer cells traveling to other sites have different energy needs from their "stay-at-home" siblings, which continue to proliferate at the original tumor site, researchers have discovered. Given that a cancer cell's unyi...

Physicists at the University of Geneva have succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 25 kilometers of optical fiber.

Geologists say well water spikes in sodium and hydrogen warned of mounting strain before two Iceland earthquakes. The results may someday lead to earthquake prediction.

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have succeeded in observing the "forbidden" infrared spectrum of a charged molecule for the first time. These extremely weak spectra offer perspectives for extremely ...

Concentrations of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, will surge to a new high in the atmosphere in 2014.

Changes in the chemical make-up of underground water could be a warning that an earthquake is on the way, according to data from two recent quakes in Iceland

Why are humans so damn curious? Because discovery is pleasurable. Jason Silva, in his latest video, says humans don't care about spectacle--what we care about is ecstatic understanding: "In other words, cognitive ecstasy...

After a weather delay, SpaceX successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station Sunday. The spaceship lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Stat...

Silly science awards, antidepressant effects and the World's happiest country -- just a few of the coolest stories in Science this week.

(University of East Anglia) New research shows CO2 emissions are set to reach a new 40 billion ton record high in 2014. The research also shows that the world's remaining CO2 emission 'quota' may be used up in one genera...

It doesn't take much for an antidepressant to change the brain's functional architecture. A single dose will do it, research published this week in Current Biology indicates.