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Health officials are now monitoring 50 people in Texas for signs of Ebola, and there have been reports that people in other areas of the country may be infected with the virus. But why can't all these people just be test...

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Everyone knows it's easier to learn about a topic you're curious about. Now, a new study reveals what's going on in the brain during that process.

In rare cases, people have suffered from quite unusual reactions to bites from venomous snakes.

A child in Rhode Island passed away last week after having complications with the enterovirus D68, according to a report from the Rhode Island Department of Health. The virus has sickened hundreds of people across the Un...

A computer glitch at the hospital in Dallas, Texas, where the first U.S. Ebola patient was treated led to him being sent home after his initial visit, a move that was highly criticized given the patient's illness. Texas ...

When it came to drawing maps of the ocean floor, scientists were stuck with crayons when the task required Photoshop. Now, improvements in satellite radar have brought every nook and cranny of Earth's seafloor to life wi...

Physicist Subir Sachdev gave a live lecture at the Perimeter Institute on Oct. 1, explaining the basics of quantum entanglement and levitating superconductors.

A battle has been raging between those campaigning for greater transparency on drug data and the European Medicines Agency. Yesterday, the regulator announced its plans

A new forecasting system can predict the weather for every US neighbourhood with eye-watering resolution and round-the-clock updates

A team of researchers, led by the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, has demonstrated a breakthrough technique that offers the first possibility of silicon detectors for telecommunica...

Advanced LIGO, designed to detect gravitational waves, will eventually be 1000 times more powerful than its predecessor. Thirty years ago, a professor and a student with access to a radiotelescope in Puerto Rico made the...

Power grids and other networks with the branching quality of snowflakes are easiest to fix when damaged links can't simply be restored in the same place

Here at Hub, we’re thinking deeply about all the changes happening in the world, thanks to some great articles published this week wrestling with the implications of technology’s progress. Just scan the headlines and...

Apple's new Health app is now up and running on the latest version of iOS8, but what exactly can this app do for you?

Researchers at the University of Granada have designed a new imaging system capable of obtaining up to twelve times more colour information than the human eye and conventional cameras, which implies a total of 36 colour ...

Boost your ability to stay focused and you can improve at almost anything. Here are the latest tips for bringing your brain's two attention systems to heel (full text available to subscribers)

Instead, human interference in cheetah territory is harming the big cat's ability to find food, the researchers found.

Internet "trolls" -- people who intentionally incite discord in online communities -- may have a lot in common with real-life sadists, new research suggests.

With more than 50 percent of wildlife disappearing in the last 40 years, something needs to change.

Although media often hype up the idea of "stranger danger," children are actually more likely to have a heart attack than they are to be kidnapped by a stranger.

Whistleblowers are starting to have real impact, and the healthcare industry is the latest to see the effects.