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Thomas Eric Duncan, the Dallas patient with the first confirmed case of Ebola virus disease in the U.S., is in critical condition, a representative of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said Saturday. The U.S. Centers fo...

Years of poor temperature readings in the oceans of the southern hemisphere may mean global warming has been massively underestimated

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, captured images of a giant ropelike, extended filament of solar material Sept. 30. The images of the filament were captured in extreme ultraviolet light by SDO, which watches th...

The man with Ebola in Texas has taken a turn for the worse, officials said today.

A new crystallographic technique developed at the University of Leeds is set to transform scientists' ability to observe how molecules work.

Why blow billions of dollars on space exploration when billions of people are living in poverty here on Earth? You've likely heard the justifications. The space program brings us useful innovations and inventions. Space ...

As people are infectious only once they develop symptoms, isolating them and having health-care workers use personal protective equipment significantly reduces the risk of onward transmission.

(University of Exeter) A study published in Nature Geoscience shows that air pollution has had a significant impact on the amount of water flowing through many rivers in the northern hemisphere.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new type of foam -- called capillary foam -- that solves many of the problems faced by traditional foams. The foam c...