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In cancer diagnosis, earlier is better--treatments are more effective and so survival is more likely too. Some forms, like skin or breast cancer, lend themselves to early detection with regular checkups as they can be fo...

A group of researchers from Switzerland has thrown light on the precise mechanisms responsible for the impressive ability of nanoparticles to detect fingermarks left at crime scenes.

(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) By combining data from two high-energy accelerators, nuclear scientists have refined the measurement of a remarkable property of exotic matter known as quark-gluon plasma. The ...

School has started and Halloween's just around the corner: that mean's it's time for our September news podcast! First up: do you know how old your water is? New research shows that some of the water on Earth predates th...

Gaze into the underwater abyss where hidden mountains lurk and new islands rise from the sea

The man who became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. on Tuesday was seen vomiting outside his Dallas apartment building as paramedics ushered him into an ambulance Sunday. "His whole family was scre...

At least four Americans have died of a severe respiratory illness that has spread to 42 states, public health officials said Wednesday. The outbreak of enterovirus 68 has caused a rash of child illnesses nationwide, some...

The first U.S. Ebola victim has been identified as Thomas Eric Duncan, a resident of Monrovia in his mid-40s. Many Americans became fearful Tuesday after it was revealed that someone had contracted the Ebola virus in the...

(University of California - San Diego) Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and their colleagues have created a new map of the world's seafloor. Twice as accurate as the previous version, the...

Four new substances have been added to a list of carcinogens compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Image courtesy NASA. If someone asked you what the galaxy looks like from afar, you might tell them it's a spiral. You'd be half-right. If you thought to include dark matter in your answer, you might say that it's a disk...

Health officials in Hawaii said they have determined a man hospitalized in isolation is no longer being evaluated for Ebola.

As many as 100 people may have come into contact with the Ebola patient in Texas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Earth's atmosphere wasn't always full of life-giving oxygen -- it was once a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and other gases, more like the atmosphere of Mars or Venus.

A new gravity map of Earth's seafloor fills in blanks and will reveal its geologic history in greater detail.

Scientists have created some of the most vivid maps yet of the deepest and most mysterious spots beneath the ocean, revealing spreading ridges and undersea mountains once veiled by sediments and ocean waters.

Princeton University scientists have observed an exotic particle that behaves simultaneously like matter and antimatter, a feat of math and engineering that could yield powerful computers based on quantum mechanics.

Researchers see signature of “Majorana particles” inside superconducting iron --

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and their collaborators have honed a way to probe the quark-gluon plasma, the kind of matter that dominated the universe immediately after the big bang.

The rapid expansion of mining and railway links from Kinshasa, the epicentre of the pandemic, helped HIV spread, say a study tracing the virus's first steps

Editor's note: During National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15), Ciencia Puerto Rico and Borinqueña are celebrating the work of organizations inspiring, supporting and... --

Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in the U.S. after visiting Liberia earlier this month, came in contact with as many as 80 people, according to Texas health officials, NBC News confirms. These people came into co...