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A 36-year-old woman in Sweden who had received a transplanted womb has given birth to a healthy boy, the Telegraph reported on Friday. The child, now at home with his mother, was born last month by caesarean section in t...

White House officials touted the nation's capable health care system and urged calm Friday amid an ongoing Ebola outbreak. Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco was joined by o...

A patient admitted to Howard University Hospital in Washington does not the Ebola virus, health officials said Saturday. Both the D.C. Health Department and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed t...

Dystopian visions of the future often explore post-apocalyptic scenarios where life on the surface is rare or extinct. If robots are commonplace when life were to disappear, what would their existence be like? Would they...

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The loss of Earth's animals, ring-shaped clouds and Nature's solar tech -- these are just a few of this week's coolest images in Science.

Cruel factory-farming practices may soon fade after new policy announcements from some of the world's largest food companies.

Ibuprofen may help reduce lung inflammation, suggests a new study in mice.

Prostate cancer is rising rapidly for men under 50 -- these tips can help you stay ahead of the worrying trend.

From frightful to downright odd, evolution has created some strange-looking critters.

A new study questions the accepted wisdom that aggressive treatment with high drug dosages and long durations is always the best way to stem the emergence and spread of resistant pathogens. The review of nearly 70 studie...

Recommended safe handling practices for workers who administer antineoplastic drugs in healthcare settings are not always followed, a study has found.

A powerful scientific tool for editing the DNA instructions in a genome can now also be applied to RNA as researchers have demonstrated a means by which the CRISPR/Cas9 protein complex can be programmed to recognize and ...