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Among the most promising experimental Ebola vaccines is a drug called ZMapp - and it could have been ready to treat patients long ago had it not sat in a Pentagon drug testing agency for two years waiting for a contract,...

Feelings of disappointment are caused by a rare type of brain signaling, new research shows. Two neurotransmitters are released by the same neurons, and their ratio is what determines whether you feel a bit discouraged o...

Black holes are thought to form when massive stars collapse in on themselves and create gravitational vacuums from which even light can't escape. However, if a collapsing star were to lose too much mass during its destru...

A group that's restoring the inventor's Wardenclyffe lab in Shoreham, New York, is selling engraved bricks to fund a museum at the site.

Hint: If it looks anything like this, you're in a spot of trouble.Image courtesy BBC. Studying the physics that lies at the heart of neuroscience means getting an up-close look at what's actually happening when a thought...

Nearly 2 million people in the United States have the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In their first images, India's orbiter tweets a top-down view of the Red Planet while NASA's spacecraft shows four faces of Mars

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 shook southern Alaska Thursday (Sept. 25), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Two years after its release, the HIV-1 drug Ritonavir was pulled from the market. Scientists discovered that the drug had crystallized into a slightly different form--called a polymorph--that was less soluble and made it...

Electricity and magnetism rule our digital world. Semiconductors process electrical information, while magnetic materials enable long-term data storage. A University of Pittsburgh research team has discovered a way to fu...

The traders in tiger parts prefer to smuggle their illegal wares via the nation's railway routes, reveals data on 40 years of poaching

A kind of advanced stone artifact once thought to have only originated in Africa may have been invented elsewhere independently, according to a new study.

It is possible to eliminate the deadly rabies virus worldwide through mass vaccinations of dogs, some researchers argue.

To this date, only one person is thought to have been cured of HIV -- the "Berlin patient" Timothy Ray Brown. But no one is exactly sure which aspect of Brown's treatment may have cured him.

Modelling suggests much of the solar system's water comes from interstellar space, meaning many exoplanets could well have water too

Can you trick yourself into feeling stronger? Yes, if you stimulate the brain in the right away

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research researchers have shown that information stored in quantum bits can be exponentially compressed without losing information. The achievement is an important proof of principle, and ...

As lifespans rise and fertility rates fall, the ageing of Western industrial societies could help reduce carbon emissions

The BICEP2 results hailed as demonstrating inflation in the early universe now seem to do the exact opposite, if they can be trusted at all

Gas chambers have been unearthed at the infamous Nazi death camp Sobibor, where thousands of people died.

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The first solar-powered flight around the world will take off from and touch down in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, officials announced today (Sept. 25).