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A Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off with a communication satellite Thursday from the Plesetsk space center located in the country's north, according to Russia's Defense Ministry. A spokesman for Russia's Aerospace Def...

Health officials at the U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC) are monitoring a technician who inadvertently handled a live Ebola virus sample. The incident, which occurred Monday and was confir...

Scientists at Cambridge University in England have found a way to detangle the DNA double helix to prevent four-stranded "quadruple helix" DNA structures, usually found in cancers, from reproducing. The findings could op...

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From the discovery of an ancient tomb in Greece to the first evidence of Neanderthal art, here are Live Science's favorite archaeology stories of the year.