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Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have grown a line of brain cells that develop the telltale structures of Alzheimer's disease. The research published online Sunday in the journal Nature reproduced the full c...

A wreck of a U.S. World War II plane found in Italia brings back a forgotten story of death and survival.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston said it has put Ebola protocols into place for a patient complaining of Ebola-like symptoms, the Boston Globe reported. The patient was rushed to Beth Israel Deaconess Sunda...

Four San Francisco Bay Area faults have built up enough seismic strain to unleash destructive earthquakes.

September 2014 was the warmest September since 1880, update NASA data shows.

A new breed of structures called skutterudites could finally tap the floods of energy our machines waste as heat (full text available to subscribers)

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has a history of phreatic eruptions, the same deadly blast that caught hikers at Japan's Mount Ontake volcano.

People with autism may show improvements in their social skills after taking a compound called sulforaphane, which is extracted from broccoli, a small new study suggests.

Originally published: Sep 30 2014 - 7:00pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Joel N. Shurkin, Contributor(Inside Science)-- More than 100 years ago, the playwright Oscar Wilde had one of his British characters say that Eng...

It's one of the toughest challenges in artificial intelligence: teaching a computer to understand us so well that it can write a story we'll want to hear (full text available to subscribers)

Hospital workers must be careful to avoid contamination when removing their soiled protective gear.

From home shopping to homeland security, big data's sausage machine is devouring us all, according to Christian Rudder's future-looking Dataclysm

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have obtained the first direct observations of atomic diffusion inside a bulk material. The research, which could be used to give unprecedented insi...

Stanford University scientists have developed a "smart" lithium-ion battery that gives ample warning before it overheats and bursts into flames.

Spintronics is an emerging field of technology where devices work by manipulating the spin of electrons rather than their charge. The field can bring significant advantages to computer technology, combining higher speeds...

Two research teams working in the same laboratories at UNSW Australia have found distinct solutions to a critical challenge that has held back the realisation of super powerful quantum computers.

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Only one person has had contact with the second case of Ebola in Dallas when she might have been contagious, health officials said today.

An elaborate and colorful mosaic showing the Greek god Hermes leading a man to the underworld has been uncovered in a vast tomb from the era of Alexander the Great, Greek archaeologists announced.

Ebola mortality rates would be lower if an outbreak occurred in the U.S., experts say.

Careful study of desert-dwelling snake mobility sheds light on the physics of crossing sandy surfaces --

Developing the cloak of invisibility would be wonderful, but sometimes simply making an object appear to be something else will do the trick, according to Penn State electrical engineers.