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Tracking major screw-ups around the Ebola crisis is almost as difficult as tracking the virus itself. The deadly disease spreading throughout West Africa dominated headlines around the world again this week, and every da...

A museum in Delhi has installed a new infrared navigation system to help visually impared people find their way with audio directions

For those most severely affected, treating epilepsy means drilling through the skull deep into the brain to destroy the small area where the seizures originate -- invasive, dangerous and with a long recovery period.

Entomologist Piotr Naskrecki was taking a nighttime walk in the rainforest in Guyana, when he came across a "Goliath birdeater," possibly the world's largest spider.

U.S. health officials have issued a "task order" to cutting-edge biology laboratories in Maryland, North Carolina and Texas to submit proposals for manufacturing Ebola treatment drugs using tobacco plants. Officials requ...

Canada will ship 800 vials of its experimental Ebola virus disease vaccine, VSV-EBOV, to the World Health Organization, Ottawa announced Saturday. The Ebola vaccine will be sent in three shipments. Human clinical trials ...

Tracking major screw-ups around the Ebola crisis is almost as difficult as tracking the virus itself. The deadly disease spreading throughout West Africa dominated headlines around the world again this week, and every da...

55 years ago today mankind first glimpsed the far side of the Moon. You're looking at that first grainy image of an unknown landscape. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon, taken on October 7th, 1959 by Sovie...

Patients with vitamin D deficiency were more likely to have a poor neurological outcome or die after sudden cardiac arrest than those who were not deficient. Nearly one-third of the patients who were deficient in vitamin...

Approximately one-fourth of the 3,386 patients whose DNA was submitted for clinical whole exome testing received a diagnosis related to a known genetic disease, often ending a long search for answers for them and their p...

A smartphone-based tool may be an effective alternative to traditional ophthalmic imaging equipment in evaluating and grading severity of a diabetic eye disease, according to a study. The results of the research indicate...

Smartphone technology is a widely available resource which may also be a portable and effective tool for imaging the inside of the eye, according to results of a study. Researchers are successfully using an iPhone® appl...

A thin ring inserted into the eye could soon offer a reading glasses-free remedy for presbyopia, the blurriness in near vision experienced by many people over the age of 40, according to a study. A corneal inlay device c...

Since stem cells were first hailed as a potential cure for a variety of diseases, we have witnessed setbacks, controversies, and failures. Now, however, human trials for the use of stem cells in treating degenerative eye...

What was it doing up there? A robotic, top secret US spaceplane landed in California on Friday, after a record-breaking 22 months in orbit

What is it doing up there? A robotic, top secret US spaceplane is due to land this week, after a record-breaking 22 months in orbit

Japan's nuclear power plants are at risk from "impossible to predict" volcanic eruptions, a prominent Japanese volcanologist said Friday, disputing findings of the country's nuclear safety regulators.

From microscopic creatures to comets in outer space, we have the best photos in Science. Check them out.

Throw a rock through a window made of silica glass, and the brittle, insulating oxide pane shatters. But whack a golf ball with a club made of metallic glass--a resilient conductor that looks like metal--and the glass no...

Crimes against animals are serious, and now the U.S. government is recognizing them as such.

When a shark is caught for sport, it often dies from its injuries -- why are sharks not protected the way other animals are?

Imagine a spider as big as a child's forearm that weighs as much as a puppy. That's how huge the South American Goliath birdeater -- arguably the world's largest spider -- can be.