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There's no approved vaccine yet from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the Ebola virus, but you can still protect yourself from other contagious viruses, like influenza. Influenza virus -- more commonly known as ...

Monday marks the end of the 21-day Ebola incubation period for 48 people who may have had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of the deadly virus Oct. 8. Duncan, the first person to die from the disease in the Unit...

Like dancers in a chorus line, atoms' movements become synchronized when lowered to extremely cold temperatures. To study this bizarre phenomenon, called a Bose-Einstein condensate, researchers need to cool atoms to a te...

In the wake of the Nobel Prize announcements earlier this month, we found this great infographic from our friends at Inside Science detailing the demographics of Nobel Prize winners. Winners for the prizes in physics, ch...

Scientists have new clues to what causes behaviors like pathological gambling, hypersexuality and compulsive shopping after a new study shows these behaviors may occur as the side effects of taking certain drugs, that af...

Go ahead and forget your wallet. Apple's new mobile payment app, Apple Pay, launched today (Oct. 20), and security experts say this high-tech way to pay seems like a safe alternative to swiping your credit or debit card.

It is one thing to quarantine close family members of Thomas Duncan, who died from Ebola at a hospital in Dallas, Texas on Oct. 8, to monitor for signs of the disease. It is another thing for residents of Louisville, Ken...

When Thomas Duncan flew to the U.S. from Liberia in September, it was to marry his longtime girlfriend and fiancée, 54-year-old Louise Troh. Now, 12 days after Duncan died from Ebola at a hospital in Dallas, Troh will b...

When 26-year-old Hunter Smith, a first-year medical student at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut, received an email Thursday informing him of mandatory Ebola training during the weeke...

Colorado health officials want to ban marijuana-infused edibles like brownies, cookies and candy, according to the Associated Press. The Colorado Health Department cited concerns that marijuana treats are "naturally attr...

The Orionid meteor shower peaks Tuesday and stargazers can observe shooting stars from Halley's Comet throughout the week. NASA will have an Orionid meteor shower live stream Monday beginning at 10 p.m. EDT. Unlike the P...

The internet is a little bit like an organism--a really huge organism, made up of over four billion IP addresses networked across the globe. How does the internet behave day to day? What are its natural cycles? USC Viter...

Baffled by how a quantum computer is supposed to work? Some of the biggest brains in physics can't figure it out either. Here's a rundown of the basics (full text available to subscribers)

Can't wait to get your hands on a shiny new quantum computer? The good news is that you can buy one today. The bad news is nobody knows if it actually is one

What will you be able to run on your quantum computer? Here's our pick of the best apps in the pipeline

Spin or superconductor? It's the "Apple vs Android" of the quantum computing world. Here's what you need to know to choose

Spending long periods of time in space can be a psychologically demanding experience, but a new virtual reality system could give NASA astronauts a welcome escape.

Tiny flying drones have captured unprecedented footage of killer whales off the coast of Canada.

The ideas of Noam Chomsky, popularised by Steven Pinker, come under fire in Vyvyan Evans's book The Language Myth: Why language is not an instinct

DNA has garnered attention for its potential as a programmable material platform that could spawn entire new and revolutionary nanodevices in computer science, microscopy, biology, and more. Researchers have been working...

The claim by microbiologist Derek Lovley and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that the microbe Geobacter produces tiny electrical wires, called microbial nanowires, has been mired in controversy for ...