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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...

The multiverse, where every choice spawns many universes, sounds like a philosopher's fantasy, but these four experiments show it may be very real

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.

A triple-punch of antibodies both prevented hepatitis C infection and wiped out the disease after it had established itself in laboratory mice, a study has found. Instead of delivering the antibodies directly, the resear...

Only half of adults in the U.S. were screened for diabetes within the last three years, less than what is recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA), a new cross-sectional study has found.

Whether states should legalize marijuana for recreational and medical use is a hot topic across the country. As the debates continue a potentially dangerous environment is being created where more preteens, teens and you...

Some surgery to treat cancer can actually make it spread. But traps to mop up tumour cells as they infiltrate the body can boost chances of survival (full text available to subscribers)

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.

When it comes to treating infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), researchers believe the care for these infants should be consistent and objective, with standardized assessment tools and evidence to back up pha...

Ridding the world of rabies in humans is cost-effective and achievable through mass dog vaccination programs, an international team of researchers says. A rabies vaccine has long existed. Even so, the disease kills an es...

A new primate model has been developed to test treatments that might cure HIV/AIDS and suggests answers to questions raised by the 'Berlin patient,' the only human thought to have been cured so far.

A sugary force field is activated in the gut when our defenses are down to encourage the growth of helpful bacteria and fight over-colonization by harmful micro-organisms, scientists have discovered. Scientists have foun...

Our immune response is much more strongly regulated by environmental factors than previously known, researchers report. Scientists uncovered epigenetic programs that distinguish tolerant and trained macrophages. These fi...

An ancient way of making stone tools may have been developed independently in Eurasia and Africa, suggesting the technology did not emerge solely from humanity's migration out of Africa.