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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

Scientists say that climate change is one of the biggest problems facing humanity. But Americans aren't too worried about it, a new poll found.

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.

In the hunt for gravitational waves, tiny tremors set a limit on how sensitive any ground-based detector can be - so we've just got to go off-world (full text available to subscribers)

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

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

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

Remains of an ancient settlement have been found on the bottom of the Aegean sea off the small island of Delos.

Embrace measures the skin's electrical activity to detect changes that foreshadow an epileptic seizure – and sends out a distress call

There's a stretch of Dutch highway that glows like Tron; a path of radiant tiles swirling like Van Gogh's “Starry Night”; a lotus dome of a hundred unfurling smart flowers;...

That pretty twinkling is a blurry plague for astronomers - but we can cancel it out with artificial stars and shape-shifting mirrors (full text available to subscribers)

CERN today launched its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that thes...