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The number of Ebola cases so far this year: 9,936. How many people have been killed by Ebola: 4,877. These are the official figures put out by the World Health Organization, widely regarded as the authority on the Ebola ...

A substantial and quick scaling up of Ebola interventions is needed to prevent a catastrophic number of cases and deaths from the disease in parts of Liberia, a new study suggests.

As many as several hundred thousand doses of two leading experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready by mid-2015, the World Health Organization said Friday, according to Reuters. Human trials for the treatment candidates ...

Quantum mechanics can be hard to grasp, even for the physicists who use it every day. As a result, people have argued from the very birth of the field about what's really going on in quantum mechanical systems. To some e...

Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned astrophysicist and author of "A Brief History of Time," has recently joined Facebook.

Researchers have developed a new technique that helps them peer into the brain of a jumping spider, an arachnid famed for its excellent vision, and record how the brain cells in its visual system process images.

It's difficult to study the jumping spider's brain, but researchers have found a new technique that lets them analyze the spider's neural activity.

Alan Eustace dove from a high-altitude balloon soaring at approximately 135,000 feet. Felix Baumgartner held the record at 128,000 feet.

News that a doctor in New York with Ebola traveled on the subway the day before he developed symptoms of the disease may have some people worried about catching the disease on public transportation.

A single case of Ebola has surfaced in New York City, underscoring that despite extensive efforts to keep the virus out of the U.S., no plan is infallible.

DNA obtained from a 45,000-year-old human bone has shown that modern humans and Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives, first mated nearly 60,000 years ago. The genome extracted from the thigh bone is the oldest mod...

Stop panicking: You won't get Ebola on the New York City subway. Even though Dr. Craig Spencer rode the A, 1 and L trains in Manhattan and Brooklyn after he came back from Guinea with Ebola, the likelihood of contracting...

The New York City Ebola patient was all over the news Friday as anchors and articles frantically tried to determine whether he had spread the deadly disease - where did he go in West Africa, why was he there, what did he...

European Union leaders have agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent within 20 years. The agreement was being touted as a "substantial" step forward and the "world's most ambitious, cost-effective" policy on ...

Loggerhead turtles from Cape Verde complete an epic sprint before they turn into chilled-out turtle surfers, like the ones in Finding Nemo

Science-minded artists can use "living paint" to create art inside petri dishes.

An annual report by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn takes liberties with the truth when criticizing federally funded research, scientists say. The senator misrepresents and oversimplifies these studies in his annual 'Wastebook....

Nina Pham, who caught Ebola while caring for the patient diagnosed in Dallas, was released from a hospital Friday, free of the virus. (Oct. 24)

A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to New York City has been diagnosed with Ebola. Officials are now working to quell panic.

Litmus paper embedded with DNA from jellyfish and other organisms has the potential to identify any biological molecule - changing how infections are diagnosed

Private company Planetary Resources, which one day hopes to mine asteroids, is preparing to launch a prototype of a telescope designed to find them

A doctor in New York City who recently returned from Guinea in West Africa became the first person in the city to test positive for Ebola. Officials move to prevent the spread of the disease in the city.