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The husband of a Spanish nurse who became the first person to contract the Ebola virus outside West Africa is now in quarantine, Mercedes Vinuesa, the head of Spain's public health service, announced Tuesday.

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Studies of marijuana's effects on health have yielded insights into the drug's effects on heart problems, mental health and the likelihood of using of other drugs. Here is a look at what 20 years of research has shown.

A new Wisconsin facility aims to clean up algae-plagued lakes by stripping phosphorus out of wastewater.

MIT researchers have developed a new way of creating surfaces on which droplets of any desired shape can spontaneously form. They say this approach could lead to new biomedical assay devices and LED display screens, amon...

The U.S. government will ramp up efforts to screen travelers for the Ebola virus, a move experts say should have been made earlier. To further control the virus, President Obama said officials will add extra screening me...

In women with ovarian cancer, the DNA from cancer cells can be detected in tampons they use, new research shows. The finding could point the way toward a way to test for the disease, researchers say.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a laser-based imaging system that creates high-definition 3D maps of surfaces from as far away as 10.5 meters. The method may be useful ...

Rise and shine early tomorrow morning to catch the last total lunar eclipse of 2014. The Moon will be visible from nearly all of North America as it passes through the shadow of the Earth and 'blushes' red in the early h...

An enormous storm in the Western Pacific rapidly strengthened overnight into the most powerful super typhoon of 2014.

One of Ebola's most notorious symptoms is bleeding from places like the nose and mouth, but such bleeding has only occurred in a minority of cases in the current outbreak.

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People who had contact with the man with Ebola in Texas are still being monitored daily and none has shown any sign of disease so far, the CDC says.

A Spanish nurse who is the first person to have contracted Ebola outside of West Africa is being treated with a drip of antibodies from patients previously infected with the virus, according to Reuters. The nurse helped ...

Just how much heat has been added to the world's oceans has been greatly underestimated, two studies published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change indicate. The planet's oceans are like a sink for excess heat tha...

Special cells in clams allow columns of hidden algae to near-perfectly harvest light for photosynthesis, pointing the way for efficient biofuel production

The Israel Antiquities Authority unearthed an ancient ritual bath and water cistern with modern world war two graffiti during a highway 38 construction project in Israel.

Some robots can swim. Others can kick, fetch, jump or fly. But the latest development in the field of robotics lets machines carry out an activity that is somewhat less athletic: plugging in a USB cord.

As a stuttering boy, Alan Rabinowitz liked talking to a zoo jaguar. The inspiring tale of how he grew up to save the big cats awaits in An Indomitable Beast

Record lows in sea ice have been recently recorded in the Arctic but ice around the opposite pole of the planet is on the rise. This is probably not due to climate stabilization:

A fresh analysis of Apollo moon samples suggests that most of the moon's surface water came from interactions with the solar wind, not from comets and meteorites as was once believed

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