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A New York man who lived in Brooklyn will be tested for Ebola after he was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Thursday with symptoms consistent with the virus, according to New York Daily News. The patient, who w...

A tapeworm that usually lives in frogs and dogs has been found crawling across a man's brain, most likely tucking into fatty acids from the cerebral tissue

A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 40 people, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Plague is an infectious, bacterial disease caused by a bacteria known as Yersinia pestis. So far in the current outbreak...

The 1977 disco hit "Stayin' Alive" is officially the song to accompany CPR's chest compression. But Japanese scientists are now teaching the lifesaving maneuver using other songs that have the right beat for CPR and are ...

A new wearable device that translates spoken words into vibrations could help deaf people perceive speech in a completely new way.

A letter penned by Albert Einstein during World War II was recently auctioned off in Los Angeles.

Training rescue robots to land safely from falls like cats could give them nine lives in the field. Larry Greenemeier reports.   --

A new app, called EASE (Electronic Access to Surgical Events), gives families and friends a 'Snapchat' type feed from a nurse, sending images, videos and 2-way texting during long surgical procedures.

Simulation assesses odds of intercepting interstellar communications. Image credit: Yellowstone National Park via flickr | ://bit.ly/1uREyxx Rights : ://bit.ly/NL51dk It may the biggest and oldest question in science: Ar...

The crowded highways of Los Angeles just got a little greener, thanks to a new electric-vehicle program sponsored by the U.S. Air Force.

New research raises concern about potential long-term harmful impact of 'antiretroviral therapy' on in-utero infants whose mothers are HIV-positive, but who are not infected with HIV themselves. The study shows that whil...

Physicians from 60 sites treated 161 heart attack patients with their own bone marrow cells, selected for their healing potential and then reinjected into the heart, in an effort to improve the heart's recovery. Their co...

Digoxin, a drug commonly used to treat heart conditions, was associated with a 71 percent higher risk of death and a 63 percent higher risk of hospitalization among adults with diagnosed atrial fibrillation and no eviden...

We are all familiar with the hassles that accompany air travel. We shuffle through long lines, remove our shoes, and carry liquids in regulation-sized tubes. And even after all the effort, we still wonder if these proced...

The males of this spider species evolved a trick to make females more likely to let them father their offspring – tickling them with hairy mouthparts

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A kink in the jet stream caused by a recent super typhoon over the Pacific is driving freezing temperatures and early snowfall in the US

A kink in the jet stream caused by a recent super typhoon over the Pacific is driving freezing temperatures and early snowfall in the US

A more sustainable approach to a bond-forming reaction extensively used in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries has now been developed. The team used the solvent-free, catalytic reaction to produce high yields...

Researchers have developed a hybrid metal-polymer nanoparticle that lights up in the acidic environment surrounding tumor cells. Nonspecific probes that can identify any kind of tumor are extremely useful for monitoring ...

The sun may be partly responsible for lightning strikes on Earth, and scientists think fluctuations in the sun's magnetic field could be used to predict lightning storms weeks in advance.

Even slight tweaks to Saturn's orbital plane and distance could have put Earth on a comet-like path around the sun – and ejected Mars from the solar system